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[[Help:Contents]] provides details about using graphics.
 
[[Help:Contents]] provides details about using graphics.
  
In order to provide more utility for using Icons and graphics as interface elements in this wiki, we've installed the [[mw:Extension:Icon|Icon Extension]] This creates a new "parser function" which simply means that the syntax for using graphics is easier.
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I formerly used the [[mw:Extension:Icon|Icon Extension]] before this functionality was included in newer versions of MediaWiki.
 
== Usage ==
 
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{{#icon: image title | image alt text | image width | page to link to }}
 
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* Only the '''image title''' argument is required - the rest are optional.
 
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{{#icon: Info.png|Info}} will display the Info.png icon in it's default size
 
{{#icon: Info.png|Info|24}} will display the Info.png icon with a width of 24px
 
{{#icon: Info.png|Info|24|Special:Help}} same as above and clicking on it will link to Special:Help
 
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{{Ambox
 
| text = I have modified this extension '''locally''' to be able to specify the HTML class attribute as the third argument. }}
 
  
 
== Installing Icons ==
 
== Installing Icons ==
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php importImages.php --extensions=svg --user=Freephile --comment='Get the whole set at http://www.oxygen-icons.org' /tmp/
 
php importImages.php --extensions=svg --user=Freephile --comment='Get the whole set at http://www.oxygen-icons.org' /tmp/
 
</source>
 
</source>
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== Creating Favicons and Application Icons ==
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You can use [[Inkscape]] as a tool to create your web and application icons.
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Resources:
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* http://www.creativebloq.com/illustrator/create-perfect-favicon-12112760
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* http://androidcookbook.com/Recipe.seam?recipeId=2549

Revision as of 11:00, 29 April 2015

Help:Contents provides details about using graphics.

I formerly used the Icon Extension before this functionality was included in newer versions of MediaWiki.

Installing Icons[edit | edit source]

In order to get the Oxygen icons into this mediawiki system, I installed the icon set (well actually I think it came as a dependency with some kde4 application) which provides the compressed svg files. Then I copied the compressed files to a temporary location where I could decompress them and import them. Using the import tool provided by mediawiki, I batch imported the ~800 images. I didn't categorize them, which had I known about categorizing images I would have done first, rather than later. If you want to categorize your images on import, just add the category to the comment.

find /usr/lib/kde4/share/icons/oxygen/scalable/ -name '*svgz' -exec cp {} /tmp/ \;
gunzip --suffix=svgz /tmp/*svgz
for i in /tmp/*\.; do mv $i ${i}svg; done;
cd phase3/maintenance
php importImages.php --extensions=svg --user=Freephile --comment='Get the whole set at http://www.oxygen-icons.org' /tmp/

Creating Favicons and Application Icons[edit | edit source]

You can use Inkscape as a tool to create your web and application icons.

Resources: