The k2g2 identicon plugin is an improved version of the original dokuwiki avatar plugin.

An identicon is a little icon used to identify the contributions of an individual user across websites, blogs and wikis.

The default identicon service can be selected in the configuration manager. When using the general purpose identicon tag you can always switch to a different identicon service later. But if you want to display an identicon using a specific service, independently of the config settings, you should use the service specific syntax given in the sections below.

It should be easy to tell different identicons apart:

From left to right: s, m, l and xl.

Some identicon services provide different rendering styles:

{{identicon>[user|mail]?[size,style]|[title]}}

By padding the e-mail address with spaces you can define the alignment like with images.

While the original avatar plugin was based on MonsterID, the k2g2 identicon plugin supports a number of additional identicon generators.

Please note that the individual plugin components are distributed under different licenses. Read the license carefully, before using them on your wiki.

Currently Gravatar is the only supported global avatar service. But it's also possible to host avatar icons on your own site.

The user must have an account at http://gravatar.com.

{{gravatar>[user|mail]?[size]|[title]}}

If you want users to host their avatar images on your wiki, rather than on Gravatar, you can upload your own avatars into the user namespace.

For a user named foo this would be an image user:foo.jpg for example and the syntax:

{{avatar>foo?[size]|[title]}}

The username has to be lowercase and follow the pagename naming rules. If unsure, you get your username for example the recent changes log etc.. Supported image types are jpg/png/gif.

MonsterID is a compositional identicon generator, inspired by a post from Don Park and the Combinatoric Critters. All graphics were created by Andreas Gohr.

You can easily adapt the monster components provided by MonsterID generator yourself. A different set of monster templates is provided by the Bowaz.

The style parameter can be used to switch between several template sets.

{{monsterid>[user|mail]?[size,style]|[title]}}

The source code and the graphics are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. If you use this software and/or graphics please link back to http://www.splitbrain.org/go/monsterid

A visiglyph is an identicon frequently used in blogs.

{{visiglyph>[user|mail]?[size]|[title]}}

Special license - see source code.

Identifrac creates a unique fractal for each user. The user ID serves as seed for the fractal and to determine the colour scheme.

{{identifrac>[user|mail]?[size,style]|[title]}}

GPL.

The stitchy was inspired by traditional cross stitch patterns, i.e. black and red emboridery on white linen. Stitchy patterns are generated from a seed number using the modulo operator to extract bits of information as needed.

A simple heraldics-rule ensures the characteristic look and feel common to all stitchies. (black and red may not touch) The beauty and simplicity of the stitchies is due to their high degree of symmetry. Each stitchy is based on a unique right-angled triangle, that is transformed into a square using a triple symmetry operation. The stitchy algorithm was conceived by Martin Schneider.

{{stitchy>[user|mail]?[size]|[title]}}

GPL.

• Original avatar plugin