Wiki: IconsPage

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

matthew.east.ubuntu at breathe.com wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
> Daniel Robitaille writes:
>
>> I was looking at the IconsPage last night on the wiki:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IconsPage
>> The problem is that the 47 icons on that page were not migrated
>> during the wiki switch.  So I can manually grab them from the old
>> wiki backup and upload to that page as attachments (I have done one
>> as a test: IconUbuntu.png); it's a boring job, but easily doable.
>> Then it seems I have to change the markup code from:
>> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/IconUbuntu.png
>> to
>> attachment:IconUbuntu.png
>> to get it to display on the wiki page (once again did one as a
>> test)    So that's fine.  But is there any way to access that
>> specific icon (i.e attachement) from another page on the Wiki? Or
>> attachements are limited to the page they are attached to?   Since
>> the whole point of that page was originally to have a centralized
>> location for all posible icons in the Wiki, easily insertable by
>> using the proper URL in any page, by have to access the attachment
>> pages only from the specific wiki page tends to defeat that original
>> purpose for that page.
>> Unless there is a way to create a wiki page that contains only the
>> png, then we could keep the original moinmoin systax
>> (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/IconUbuntu.png) to display the png in the
>> wiki page.
>
>
> This problem is pretty well known, Henrik is working on it, and we
> will be working on fixing the links soon (job for wiki team? ;).
> Currently our idea is to have all Icons in
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Icons and all screenshots and other images,
> which are more likely to be page specific, as attachments on the
> relevant page.
> Matt
>
I've resurrected some of them now, but it seems there are several more
missing. The rest can be found here:
http://gentoo.warthogs.hbd.com:8003/ubuntu/wiki/... Like
http://gentoo.warthogs.hbd.com:8003/ubuntu/wiki/iconCircle.png It would
be great if others would help with extracting them, if not I'll get to
it. I seems my image auto-harvesting script failed on these because
reading them requires you to be logged in (I have no idea why).

Putting them in 'lostimages' is not really a good solution though. The
best approach would probably be to make a page called wiki/icons and
upload them all as attachments there. They could then be referred to
from any page as attachment:wiki/icons/Name.png Looking at the Moin file
structure it looks like I should be able to simply place the images in
.../PageName/attachments (in the file structure on the server) and Moin
should realise that they belong to the page. I'll try that tomorrow.

- Henrik