2006-03-15 Oddmuse

LongImageIncorporationProcess is the observation that it is very complicated to edit images on a wiki. I think the next step that I personally need is very simple, and I started writing a script for it. Eventually it should be available as Oddmuse:wikiimg, but for now, wikiimg is only available from CVS.

Oddmuse:wikiimg

wikiimg is only available from CVS

I was already using scripts like the following:

convert -resize 30% WebServerSetup.png WebServerSetupSmall.png
scp WebServerSetup*.png aschroeder@thinkmo.de:htdocs/oddmuse/pics/
wikiupload -u "AlexSchroeder" WebServerSetup.png \
    http://www.communitywiki.org/en/WebServerSetupImage
wikiupload -t "image/svg+xml" -u "AlexSchroeder" WebServerSetup.svg \
    http://www.communitywiki.org/en/WebServerSetupSource

Or this one:

file=`basename $0 .sh`
wikiupload -u "AlexSchroeder" ${file}.png \
    http://www.communitywiki.org/en/${file}Image
wikiupload -t "image/svg+xml" -u "AlexSchroeder" ${file}.svg \
    http://www.communitywiki.org/en/${file}Source

What *wikiimg* does, basically, is the following:

• *image get PageName**: Gets PageNameSource from CommunityWiki from the wiki and save it as PageName.svg in the current directory.

• *image put PageName**: Save PageName.svg from the current directory as PageNameSource on CommunityWiki, and save PageName.png in the current directory as PageNameImage on CommunityWiki. You are responsible for exporting the SVG file as PNG when you are done. If you set the environment variable WIKIUSER, this will be used as your username, otherwise the script will determine your login name and use that instead (id -un).

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