How can I add images to a Community Help wiki page?

[Paddy Landau]

I'm writing a how-to on the Community Help wiki (https://help.ubuntu.com/community).

The Wiki help on Moin syntax (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpOnMoinWikiSyntax) mentions drawings, and points to help on drawings (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpOnDrawings).

Unfortunately, the help is obscure. It gives the syntax for including an image, but absolutely no instructions as to how to get the drawing into the page in the first place.

I know that I need a tar of the drawing, which somehow must get onto the Wiki — but how?
It recommends AnyWikiDraw as a drawing tool, but apparently it has been discontinued. Anyway, the installation instructions are non-existent and, as far as I can tell, I need to install it on a server with a wiki, not on my computer! The only alternatives to AnyWikiDraw that I've found are also for wiki servers.

Are you able to help me to (1) understand how to create a drawing in the right format and (2) how to put the drawing onto the Wiki?

EDIT: I've managed to figure out how to add the drawings. I just need to understand the format of the file.

EDIT: It's absolutely bizarre. I have created a tar file, with the extension .adraw, containing a sample PNG image. If I name the file testdraw.adraw, it works. But if I rename the file to either testdraw.tar or silver.adraw, it doesn't work. I am flummoxed. It also seems to be a requirement that the contained file is called "drawing", e.g. drawing.png.

Thank you.

[Paddy Landau]

Phew! I finally figured out a way.

It doesn't have the advertised functionality of adraw, but that's OK, because I don't need fancy image functions.

Method:

Create an image however you require.
Name the image "drawing", e.g. drawing.png.
Create a tar (any name) containing just the image.
Give the tar the extension "tdraw", e.g. explanation.tdraw.

[sudodus]

Am I understanding your question correctly?

This is how I add an image to an Ubuntu help or wiki page:

1. Upload the image as an attached file.

2. Refer to the file with the following syntax (modified according to the relative location). Notice that '/artwork' corresponds to 'artwork' or './artwork' in bash (for subpages / directories) but not for the images / files themselves.


{{attachment:/artwork/mkusb128.png}}

as you can see at the beginning of this link (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb) if you look at the raw text.

It is a good idea to 'borrow' syntax from another wiki page that does something that you want to do (if you are lucky enough to find one, otherwise, just ask us ...).

[Paddy Landau]

{{attachment:/artwork/mkusb128.png}}
Oh my goodness, that is so much easier than the documented method!

Thank you!