[Moin-devel] integrating images

[Nir Soffer]

On 8 Jun, 2005, at 6:31, moin-devel-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:

>
>>> Doing a search for `image' in the default help pages of MoinMoin
>>> gives no hint how to integrate images into wiki pages.  Here I
>>> don't mean how to add an external link but how and where to put
>>> images into /usr/share/moin/mywiki (by the superuser).  Are there
>>> any guidelines or recommendations?
>>
>> There are basically 3 methods for showing an image:
>
> Thanks, but this doesn't really answer my question.  Assume that I
> want to integrate hundreds of images into my wiki, I wonder about the
> ideal location to store them?  What about
> <prefix>/moin/mywiki/data/img?  IMHO it should be a location *within*
> the `moin' tree.

Its not clear what is "integrate hundreds of images into my wiki". 
Describe how you are going to use the images in the wiki. Are you going 
to show them on one page? few pages?

>
>>   * use attachment:myimage.png
>
> Isn't the use of `attachment' deprecated due to potential security
> problems?

No its not.

Usually images are used on some pages by attaching them to the page and 
including them with `inline:` or `attachment:`.  The images are stored 
inside the containing page directory.


Best Regards,

Nir Soffer