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Olympic slogans

Stale

– DyceBot (talk) 07:04, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Articles: Chicago 2016 Olympic bid and Madrid 2016 Olympic bid

Request: Upload the Olympic slogans "Stir the Soul" ([1] [2]) and "Hola everyone" ([3] [4]) in SVG format, and as:

File:Chicago bid slogan for the 2016 Summer Olympics.svg
File:Madrid bid slogan for the 2016 Summer Olympics.svg

Example:

Regards; Felipe C.S ^{( talk )} 21:09, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Aren't these copyrighted? Are we allowed to upload vectorised versions? The Chicago one looks a bit tough, also! --Slashme (talk) 15:47, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is nothing wrong with uploading vector non-free images--just make sure they are only rendered at web resolution on their articles. [|Retro00064|☎talk|✍contribs|] 02:50, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comic artist for the Wikipedia Signpost

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– DyceBot (talk) 07:04, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not the usual request we see here, so sorry for it not following a strict pattern. I'm seeking an artist that has talent equal to or better than Greg Williams of WikiWorld. He dropped off the radar awhile ago. From his comments it might be better if a name besides "his" WikiWorld is used, but that's more of a personal option for the graphist.

Requirements: Work must be humorous, have text taken from an article on Wikipedia that is not modified, be in PNG file format as the end result, and have the appearance of a webcomic.

Other than that, you have free reign as far as your imagination goes. Some suggestions were left here that were never worked on if you need a jumpstart. Of course, before anything would get published it would have to go under the scrutinty of the editor-in-chief (currently Ragesoss) and possibly others at the Post. Multiple graphists are welcome to submit their work. I hope you guys enjoy this one, §hep ^Talk 01:55, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Would anybody be interested in giving this a try? §hep ^Talk 00:07, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Heraldic lions (attitudes)

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– DyceBot (talk) 07:04, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lion rampant
Lion statant

Lion statant
Lion sejant

Lion sejant
Lion sejant erect

Lion sejant erect
Lion salient

Lion salient
Lion couchant

Lion couchant
Lion dormant

Lion dormant

Article(s): Lion (heraldry), Attitude (heraldry)

Request: I'm asking for vector images as examples of each position used in heraldry, roughly based upon File:Lion rampant.svg and File:Heraldique meuble lion passant.svg. Please also see the section on lions at this page as a general reference. Feel free to refer to my sandbox to see where I'm going with this. Also note that all lions should face left, as a lion facing right is "toward sinister", a lion looking over its shoulder is described as "regardant", and a lion looking toward the viewer is described as "guardant". For example, this lion is "couchant guardant", and this lion is "sejant regardant". Wilhelm_meis (talk) 04:54, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Well, I spent quite some time a few weeks ago making these images

Might I suggest that these be used as a reference rather than that quite simplistic and untidy-looking lion rampant and passant you give? Admittedly, it's harder to draw them in this style, but if we were to have a whole matching set like this, the effect would be quite striking, I think. I have other commitments right now, but I might make a few up in a couple of week's time. Inductiveload (talk) 09:22, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Those are quite nice indeed. I placed your lion rampant in the gallery above, as a starting point. Thank you for that, it is much nicer than the one on my sandbox page. Wilhelm_meis (talk) 04:31, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Long tail

Stale

– DyceBot (talk) 07:04, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Image now in article
new SVG

Article(s): Long tail

Request: This chart burns my eyes. Can someone here make it less garish? Anything conveying the basic concept would work fine in the article, I think, so don't worry about copying this totally literally. (The "bigger" and "longer" labels, for instance, aren't really necessary.) Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:35, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The more I look at this, the worse it is. Why are some of the lines green and the others gray? Why is 20% labeled when this is just a rough graphic illustrating a general concept? ... Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:38, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: How does that look? It's much less busy than the prev image. Does there need to be anything else? Do you want smooth lines instead? --Pbroks13^talk? 06:51, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think that's fine. Smooth lines might be good, but I'm not really invested in this. I was just dropping by the article and was slightly horrified at what i saw. :) Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:32, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

hah, gotcha. glad I could help! --Pbroks13^talk? 06:36, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I made the lines smooth, put in proper axes and de-emphasised the vertical gridlines as it's only a rough graph, but I feel they add a certain sense of the relative balance of the graph. Feel free to revert if you don't like it. Inductiveload (talk) 09:09, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Per the article, I'm pretty sure the 20% line needs bolded. §hep ^Talk 03:31, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It would need two, one for each line, to make the point clearly. The existing image doesn't make this distincion, and the 20% line only refers to the "old" market line. I'll put them in later. Inductiveload (talk) 07:19, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Attila in Gaul - bad map colors

Resolved

Map of Attila's campaign

Article(s): Attila the Hun and others

Request: There was a request left on the talk page that this image be altered so that the arrows are not red and green as color-blind readers are not able to distinguish them. Rmhermen (talk) 01:49, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Done, converted to black and grey.--Goldsztajn (talk) 03:51, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Marking as resolved.--Goldsztajn (talk) 05:19, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Shaheen Air International

Remove the containers in lower front.
Edited

Article(s): Shaheen Air International

Request: Remove the container nad improve the image overall. yousaf465' 08:59, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: How does this look?-Andrew c ^[talk] 16:29, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gas use / density

Graph

Graph

Article(s): Urban planning

Request: Could someone vectorize this? I think it would provide a more useful product (especially for those who wish to print) and will make it more easily editable in the future.

Actually, does anyone have access to that article linked as the source? I think our best bet would be to transcribe the relevant data and rebuild and paste the data as the source so that it can be plotted on precise data points and not just traced. If someone has access to the article and could do it that would be great. If not I can send you pictures of the data from the article. gren グレン 22:03, 24 March 2009 (UTC) http://www.sendspace.com/file/5jh202[reply]

Graphist opinion: Just commenting here - this would indeed be much better done by recreating the graph from the original data, not tracing. As such, we need to find the original data - note there is also a lot of commentary on the image's talk page about this. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 12:29, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The original data is in the PDF I linked to! gren グレン 21:55, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I checked the linked PDF and while I didn't read the article, nothing popped out supplying the data which would allow us to recreate the image above. Have I missed this? Can you supply an exact page number which provides the precise data for the graph? --Goldsztajn (talk) 03:09, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hyatt Regency walkway details

Resolved

Current version

Article(s): Structural engineering, Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, Current Valued Pictures Candidate

Request: A request has been made at WP:VPC that the titles for (a) and (b) read "Original design" and "Actual construction", rather than "Original Design" and "Actual Construction", respectively. Should be quick to fix. Also, this actual file is up for deletion (I just moved it to Commons), so please overwrite the Commons version, not the local copy (unless the local copy has been deleted by the time you get to this-then disregard). Thanks! ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 23:16, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: I recreated all the text as editable text as it was all vector shapes and it will be easier for other projects to edit into other languages. Decapitalized words as requested, uploaded over. File is 1/3 of the size now too. Mfield (Oi!) 05:46, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yea, I opened this in Inkscape and was trying to figure out why they were shapes and not letters. Yes, a bump that small will scare me away from dealing with SVGs, hehe. Thanks for the help. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 06:00, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think it was so that MediaWiki wouldn't render the text funny at the time. I guess the renderer is better at handling text now =). --Dave the Rave (DTR)talk 19:46, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tag as resolved?--Goldsztajn (talk) 05:15, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yea. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 23:54, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Andorra

Resolved

Andorra Topographic Map (French)
Andorra Topographic Map (English)

Article(s): Andorra

Request: Translate into English, so it can be used here at English Wikipedia. 92.21.152.37 (talk) 14:54, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: I didn't translate the names of the mountains, passes and rivers as these seem to have been left in the other versions. Just translated the legend, the country names, capital name and mountain range (Eastern Pyrenees).--Goldsztajn (talk) 01:47, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Any objections to marking this resolved?--Goldsztajn (talk) 00:26, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Marking as resolved.--Goldsztajn (talk) 05:20, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

University of Valle

Article(s): University of Valle#Organization

Request: Some diagrams are needed for the Organization section. A general organization diagram can be found in this file. Other diagrams for the faculties, institutes, and other dependencies can be found in this file. I'll be glad to help in the translation of the names from Spanish. Andremun (talk) 03:45, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Hi, there is a large amount of material in the linked PDFs and a few questions arise: the material seems mostly to be dated from 2003...given universities and their propensity to bureaucratically reorganise at OCD-like frequencies; is producing material like this only going to become obsolete quite quickly? Second, perhaps all the material does not need to be converted...if can you be specific about exactly what you want it would be easier. I take it the first diagram [5] is a must, but can you confirm it is current and not about to be made obsolete? --Goldsztajn (talk) 23:01, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Thanks for the reply. Unless a mayor change in the Colombian law for higher education, the main diagram would not change. The last major change for the law was in 1993, and its possible it would not change in the near future. As for the other diagrams, for now they might not be needed, unless an independent article for each unit is created. -Andremun (talk) 03:52, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I can convert this PDF [6] to an SVG (or a JPEG), but I need a license for the file, I can't just assume this is public domain. Once I can get a license I'm happy to mock up an image, I'll translate what I can and you can correct and help me with the rest.--Goldsztajn (talk) 00:58, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not really sure what is the licence for that file. I don't know if this can fall into the fair use category. Please let me know if there is something that I can do. -Andremun (talk) 01:41, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I guess if it is a public university, then its "assets" are owned by the Government of Colombia, what is copyright law on assets of the Govt? Can you find any other logos or images in the Commons which are govt of Colombia sourced? What is their licence? --Goldsztajn (talk) 04:57, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Map

Article: Roman roads in Africa

Map

Request: Could anyone help me by cutting off the top part of the map (just below Gibraltar) and putting the frame with explanations of the symbols etc. that is now in the upper right corner over the frame that is now in the lower left corner (excluding the title "Roman empire in 45 AD" and everything below the word Colchis). I would be very grateful.S711 (talk) 07:55, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Won't you pleease help me, help me?S711 (talk) 19:19, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Hi S711, for me this is actually a fair amount of work, it is not a simple crop and move job, especially if it is to be left as an SVG. Unless another graphist wants to have a go at this, I'll try to get to it over the next week, but if others have any views for a speedy solution here, please chip in.--Goldsztajn (talk) 03:18, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great!!S711 (talk) 10:49, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Newspaper Restoration

Article(s): Kung Kao Po

Request: Please restore the image (eg. remove scratch and fold marks, etc.) Jackl 13:37, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Hi. The original image quality of this is low. Removing the fold marks would be easier if a higher resolution, better quality image was available. Can you contact the editor who contributed the image and get an image at 300dpi (the current image is 96dpi)? I can work with this image, but would prefer if it was possible to have higher quality. Also, re the "scratches"....um, it's not scratches but the trails of bugs who've been happily munching away at this document. I can crop out the trails from the sides of the image, but in the parts of the image which includes Chinese text I can't really replace the correct characters (doi bu qi). --Goldsztajn (talk) 01:11, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

SVG problem

Maps template in Russian

Request: I've translated French version of this file, into Russian, so that our Graphic Lab could use it too. French file is only 214 kb, and this one turned out to be 1mb. Also there are severe problems with fonts and Russian letters. I've tried several times to save the new svg in different way (save with all glyphs for example), but the only thing it did was make it even bigger and worse. Could someone try fixing the fonts problem and the size of the file? Also please explain how did you do it. (I use Illustrator) --Ahnode (talk) 15:05, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

I'm afraid I can't tell what is wrong with your file, except for the size. I use Inkscape, but I have a few ideas. If you have problems with your fonts, Inkscape has a "Path->Convert Objects to Path" command that allows SVG to render 'non-standard' fonts. It may be that Cyrillic (excuse me if I spelled it wrong), or your specific font is one of the non-standard ones. You could try another font. If Illustrator is converting all the fonts to SVG path objects automatically, that would explain the size difference. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but I hope that at least explains the mystery. Dhatfield (talk) 03:27, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removing a scratch

Church, with pharmacy on the side
Edit 1
Edit 2

Article(s): St. Mary's Church and Pharmacy (future); National Register of Historic Places listings in Ravalli County, Montana

Request: Remove the little white vertical line (apparently a scratch) in the clouds in the top left. While you're at it, might as well remove the border, although Cropbot will get around to it eventually. Nyttend (talk) 15:12, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Done. ■ MMXX^talk 21:09, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese character

Chinese character cheng, unable to display on most browsers

Chinese character cheng, unable to display on most browsers
vector
open source font

Article(s): Naming laws in the People's Republic of China

Request: Could someone vectorize this~~, and remove the light border~~? Thanks, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 02:57, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New version without border uploaded, now all it needs is to be vectorized. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 03:00, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

22x24 pixels is not a lot to work with. Does anyone have a higher resolution pic? Dhatfield (talk) 03:35, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not, it's a picture of a Unicode font. If it's not possible (or if it's more effort than would be worthwhile), then it's not a huge deal, since the image isn't super-important. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 04:40, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This looks to me like the horse character (馬) repeated three times, is that correct? We could mock up an SVG on that basis.--Goldsztajn (talk) 05:14, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article it's used in specifically says that's correct =) Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 05:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, yes, that's a good idea. Do any of the inkers here read Chinese (just so it can be done by someone who has a feel for the way strokes should look, etc., especially when stretched out like this)? rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 13:33, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I took a look at that article and the character displays for me so I dug through my fonts and I have a font called MingLiu (I think it came with MS Office) that displays the character like this. It might look a bit squared at the ends at larger resolutions, but I assume that's a correct representation of the character? — ₪₪ ch1902 ₪₪ 15:28, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, MingLiU is a Unicode font so it's pretty good with stuff like that. (PMingLiU is slightly better, just because things are less squished, but it's a trivial detail.) As for the svg, that looks perfect! Should we go ahead and delete File:Zh cheng rare.gif? rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 18:42, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I tried PMingLiU too, but that particular character looked exactly the same. They don't normally deleted superseeded images on Commons, but it is such a tiny image and it is still on en.wiki it might be worth deleting :) — ₪₪ ch1902 ₪₪ 20:54, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, I believe this is a proprietary font [7], if so, it will need to be deleted. SVGs must use public domain fonts, list of SVG fonts for wiki here.--Goldsztajn (talk) 21:30, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, darn. I worried about that before when the original version was uploaded (from the Unicode website) but was told it wouldn't be a problem. Looking through the list of acceptable wiki fonts, I don't see any that I know of and can vouch for; WenQuanYi seems to be the only Chinese-specific one, but I've never seen it before. (I can point out that some other Unicode fonts, such as Arial Unicode and Doulos SIL, are notoriously bad with Chinese characters...but they are proprietary as well so that point is moot here.) rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 01:57, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I loaded up the above which uses an open source font...I realise it is not close to the beauty of the proprietary font, but I'm not having any luck finding an open source Chinese font which can give similar styling....--Goldsztajn (talk) 04:49, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(unindent) SVGs don't have to use open source fonts. That list only applies if you want text elements to render correctly using librsvg since that list of fonts is available on the server, they will render correctly. — ₪₪ ch1902 ₪₪ 07:44, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oman

PNG map of Oman, and its location relative to the rest of the world.
JPG detailed map of Oman, showing its exlaves

Article(s): Oman

Request: The first map doesn't show Oman's two exclaves (areas of Oman within the United Arab Emirates. Could the map (a) be modified to show these areas, and (b) be converted to an SVG? The second map can be used to determine the location of the exclaves. For bonus points, the second map is a JPEG and could really do with being converted to an SVG - but now I'm just pushing my luck ;-) I don't know if it's relevant, but the first map comes from Commons - commons:File:LocationOman.png- if I need to make the request there let me know (I've watchlisted this page, or you can ping me on my talk page. Cheers, This flag once was red^propaganda_deeds 14:36, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion:

Supreme Court

Resolved

Original
Edit1

Article(s): United States Supreme Court building

Request: Has barrel distortion and might be tilted. Please fix and change anything else that may not be up to par. Thanks! ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 15:18, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Fixed pincusion distortion, perspective, vignetting and noise reduction. How's that? Mfield (Oi!) 21:45, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just -><- this much better than perfect. Thank you. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 00:43, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cayman Islands Map.svg

Doesn't render properly
Inkscape PNG Generated from file.

Article(s): Cayman Islands

Request: I created this map for use with the Cayman Islands article, it renders properly in Inkscape and Firefox, however when I uploaded it here it is not rendering properly. Please fix it, as I am new to SVG. RaviC (talk) 19:23, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphist opinion: Wikipedia used librsvg to render the SVG files, and it does a pretty bad job on the text conversion. I just converted all of the text to paths, so it should render correctly now. --Pbroks13^talk? 20:51, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of images

Since being with Wikipedia, I created a large collection of images by hand-drawing them. Can these be CGI'-ed (converted to computer images)?

The files are the following: Crockpot still.JPG Worm still.JPG Rainwater harvesting system.JPG Composting toilet ClivusMultrum.jpg HeatAndColdStorageWithHeatPump.jpg Heat pump system.jpg ReedBedSetUps.jpg Low cost water transport system.JPG ‎ Serial hybrid ICE electric.JPG ‎ Serial hybrid FuelCell Electric.JPG Parallell hybrid ICE electric.JPG RegularEarthshipDesign.JPG SkylightPlacement.JPG PressurizedRooftopRainwaterHarvester.JPG GravityfedWell.JPG Sterntypes.JPG MainSailTypes.JPG Bowtypes.JPG

At present, I would firstly like to request the making of the following image: ForestCoverWorld.JPG

This image is to be created from the image found at Intactforests and the this thematic map from howstuffworks

Can someone please make a open-source copy from these maps and upload them to wiki commons, after which they can be displayed at the deforestation article. The image should be the IntactForests image layered over a pencil line marking the extremeties of the howstuffworks vegetation cover map. Note that it is perhaps best to move the intactforest coloring to the howstuffworks map, add the pencil line and delete the howstuffworks coloring

The area between the pencil line and the still currently present vegation, should be colored red; Vegetation (current) should be green.

Thanks in advance, 81.246.128.52 (talk) 07:39, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]