Dan Bron wrote: > Would one of the WikiGnomes (Chris, Henry, Oleg, Alex) please add an > interwiki for flag icons? Without one, the text for the > table http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Community/Demographics is bulky and > daunting; it may deter new users from adding themselves. > > Ideally, I'd like to be able to type {{flag:us}} and have it rendered as > http://flag.wikispaces.com/file/view/us.png but I'll > take whatever's possible.
As mentioned on http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/MoinMoin18, flags are not longer supported by default in MoinMoin. They were removed for reasons of political correctness, see http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinBugs/EnglishFlag : "{en} - English - map to the Union Jack flag {en} which is incorrect and possibly offensive for people from U.S, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Australia and others ..." As a result, therefore, to get flags, you need an external link. I would much prefer that the flags be stored on the server. Not least, this speeds up page access and makes it easier to create offline pages. It should be possible to add them to the smiley collection and refer to them as in the old way. However, when setting up the new server, I took a quick look at this and could not figure out how to do it. Enough had changed from the earlier version of MoinMoin that I could not track down where in the code I could extend the smileys. So I would appreciate someone taking a look and letting me know what to do. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
