Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop
The Graphics Lab is a project to improve the graphical content of the Wikimedia projects. Requests for image improvements can be added to the workshop pages: Illustrations, Photographs and Maps. For questions or suggestions one can use the talk pages: Talk:Graphics Lab, Talk:Illustrations, Talk:Photographs and Talk:Maps.
This specific page is the requests page for the illustration workshop. Anyone can make a request for an illustration to be improved or created for a Wikipedia article. Clicking the "New Request" button will bring you to a standard template for submitting requests, as well as general advice that should be followed.
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World Scout Emblem
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not yet done-is there any way to make the outline less grainy?
Article(s): World Scout Emblem, multiple others
Request: Trim away extra white/colored space, thank you. I know it says don't ask for a bunch at once, but since it is the same basic process for each, I thought I would ask... Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 13:14, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Graphist opinion:
- Will do some of them. I'm more focused on the SVGs and PNGs, so anyone else may take over the JPG rasters. ZooFari 06:08, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you so much! Um, with the Plast one, removing all the blue reduces visibility. Perhaps a thin blue border? Thank you! Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 06:48, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Fixed. Is that okay? ZooFari 15:43, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
- Those are all the PNGs I could do. Anyone ese may take the rest. ZooFari 22:48, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you so much! Um, with the Plast one, removing all the blue reduces visibility. Perhaps a thin blue border? Thank you! Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 06:48, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Finished thank you so much for these!
- File:World Scout Emblem inverse.svg Done
- File:Ukrainian Plast membership badge.png Done
- File:Association of Scouts of Ukraine.svg Done
- File:Magyar Cserkészszövetség metal.png Done
- File:Scouts de France.svg Done- Vector version: File:Scouts de France.svg
- File:Korea Scout Association 1950.png Done
- File:International Scout and Guide Fellowship.png Done
- File:Homenetmen.png Done
- File:Iraq Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Council 2004.png
- File:Africa Scout Region 24th World Conference.jpg
- File:Movimiento Scout Católico pre 1999.jpg
- File:Scouts du Burkina Faso.jpg
- File:Slovenský skauting Sea Scouting.jpg
- File:Association des Scouts du Niger 1970.jpg
- File:23rd World Scout Jamboree theme.jpg
- File:Scoutlink (The Scout Association).jpg
- File:Gilbert and Ellice Scout Association.jpg
- File:Associazione Scouts Cattolici Italiani.png
- File:Lietuvos Skautija 1918.png
- File:Order of World Scouts.png
- File:Belarusian Republican Scout Association.png
- File:Savez Izviđača Srbije i Crne Gore.png
- File:Asia Pacific Region (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts).png
- File:Scouting Nederland.svg
- File:Scouts de France Guiana Antilles.png
- This comment is just here for the date tag to stop the archiving bot. /94.193.242.248 (talk) 12:51, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
Oresund tunnel
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png)
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Grainy JPG
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SVG 1
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SVG 2 (no text yet)
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SVG 0(made before vectorisation request was made here)
Article(s): Oresund Bridge
Request: This could be a relatively easy vectorization which could add a decent amount of value to the article with minimal work. gren グレン 18:30, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Request taken by Lokal_Profil.
- Sorry, started vectorizing without request taking notice. --Justass (talk) 04:06, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
- NP. I've upped my version as well, haven't added text yet though. A warning about the jpg is that the Microsoft icons are probably non free, so don't base car, bus, train on them. /Lokal_Profil 13:04, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
- Found an image which precedes both of ours (and the request here) thus teaching all of us the worth of looking before asking/looking before doing/categorising and linking to vector versions from the original =) /Lokal_Profil 13:07, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
- NP. I've upped my version as well, haven't added text yet though. A warning about the jpg is that the Microsoft icons are probably non free, so don't base car, bus, train on them. /Lokal_Profil 13:04, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
- eee, very sorry. I did take a look around (I had thought). I think the water top in SVG2 is a great idea since it makes it look like an underwayter tunnel and not just a sky. I also like the measurements! Thank you. gren グレン 15:58, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
- No worries. I think all four involved parties (me included) missed something. The preexisting image wasn't correctly categorised meaning I only found it by mistake. So measurements from SVG 1, water from SVG 2? Think wehicles from SVG 2 as well to avoid the Microsof icons issue./Lokal_Profil 19:07, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
- eee, very sorry. I did take a look around (I had thought). I think the water top in SVG2 is a great idea since it makes it look like an underwayter tunnel and not just a sky. I also like the measurements! Thank you. gren グレン 15:58, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Water rising at topsoil
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png)
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Hand drawn image
Article(s): Tillage
Request: This image needs to be totally reworked: remake in color with graphics program. Note:saturated zone:entirely blue; striped zone: striped or dotted blue (only partially wet)—User:KVDP 11:12, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
International Space Station Communication Systems
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png)
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Diagram of the ISS communication systems.
Article(s): International Space Station
Request: Would someone please be kind enough to SVG this diagram, and make it a bit clearer (label-wise) in the process? Thanks in advance, Colds7ream (talk) 12:39, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
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Gray's Plate 570
Article(s): Superior petrosal sinus, and 11 others
Request: This Gray's image is important for the articles that it is contained in. However it doesn't appear very clear, for example the Inferior petrosal sinus can hardly be distinguished. And the text is difficult to read. Is there anything that you can do? Thank you very much in advance!! Captain n00dle\Talk 11:41, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
- Probably the best solution would be a rescan. Anyone have a copy of Grey's Anatomy? -Andrew c [talk] 16:11, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Signature of Nicolaus Copernicus
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autotrace
Article(s): Nicolaus Copernicus
Request: Convert to a decent SVG version, not autotraced. Connormah (talk) 04:04, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
- Why no autotrace? Look at the file I created above. Is that ok? Not exactly sure why SVG was needed here in the first place, but I guess that is another issue. -Andrew c [talk] 16:10, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
- Never mind,. it looks good. It's just that some autotraces round too many corners..etc. Connormah (talk) 17:31, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
- Isn't that what we want? It's scratchy and some smoothing would benefit. ZooFari 20:41, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
- I must admit I'm at a loss to understand why anyone would want to replace a perfectly good 4 kB PNG with a 28 kB SVG (which gets delivered as a 13 kB PNG to the client at that size anyway). --RexxS (talk) 02:22, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
- I agree with RexxS. You are not really gaining anything with the signature being scalable. The source is the PNG, so there is no way that the SVG can have any more accurate detail than the PNG. It is also an approximate autotrace, so that the SVG product is already an inexact copy of the original. We may give the illusion that the SVG has more detail/information because you can zoom in. But what you are zooming in on isn't any accurate information not already contained in the PNG. RexxS's point about size and thus bandwidth is also very pertinent. SVG is great for things that actually need to be scalable that are vector based to begin with (a linedrawing of a signature, I'd argue, isn't vector based). SVG is also good for things that need to be editable by other users, such as labels, graphs, diagrams, charts, captions, schematics, etc. I don't see how SVG would be preferred in the case of someone's signature, as not only would I argue that the content is raster based to begin with, but also I do not see the benefits of ediability/scalability showing in a depiction of someone's signature. Anyway, my 2 cents. Sorry for the rant ;) -Andrew c [talk] 16:15, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
- I must admit I'm at a loss to understand why anyone would want to replace a perfectly good 4 kB PNG with a 28 kB SVG (which gets delivered as a 13 kB PNG to the client at that size anyway). --RexxS (talk) 02:22, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
- Isn't that what we want? It's scratchy and some smoothing would benefit. ZooFari 20:41, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
SVGify please
Article(s): Hong Kong Special Duties Unit
Request: Please merge the two files listed above to a single SVG file please... - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ guestbook ♦ contribs 16:12, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
- Anyone?!?!?? - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ guestbook ♦ contribs 22:58, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s): You're going to have a hard time finding anyone who will vectorize this (convert it to SVG) because the images are quite distorted due to the nature of embroidery. And most Wikipedians still won't vectorize because it's non-free (it's a copyrighted image). If you can find a better image, please let me know, but otherwise I can only wish you the best of luck. Mononomic (talk) 00:14, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
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Image with labels in German
Article(s): Cluster of differentiation on english wikipedia. Also used in other languages: see this link
Request: Translation would probably make this picture a lot more useful (and possibly easier to translate into other languages as well).
Original | Translation |
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CD34 etc. | CD34, they remain the same (CD is short for Cluster of differentiation) |
Stammerzelle | Stem cell |
Granulozyten | Granulocyte |
Monozyten | Monocyte |
T-lymphozyten | T-lymphocyte |
T-lymphozyten | B-lymphocyte |
Thrombozyten | Thrombocyte |
Helfer-T-lymphozyten | Helper T-lymphocyte |
Suppressor-T-lymphozyten | Suppressor T-lymphocyte |
aktivierte T-lymphozyten | Activated T-lymphocyte |
I'm wondering if an image map like this one: Template:Metabolic pathways would be a good idea. If no one here has the time/effort I will be happy to do this if you let me know :-)
If possible, .svg would probably be preferable to .jpg too.
Thank you very much in advance! Best regards, Captain n00dle\Talk 19:22, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Sports icons
Article(s): sport stub templates
Request: Can someone take a crack at vectorizing these? Connormah (talk) 06:37, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
- File:Baseball.svg Should be useful for the first image There are more free svg baseballs at the Open Clip Art Library [1], [2], [3].
- As for bats File:Baseball bat.svg looks quite good. And File:Tennis stub.svg could be used as a basis for the puzzle piece layout. /Lokal_Profil 14:50, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
Learn To Fly
Article(s): Learn To Fly
Request: Trim down to just cover... Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 09:36, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
Graphist opinion:
Done. ZooFari 18:19, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
Diagram of Cultural Properties of Japan
Article(s): National Treasures of Japan
Request: I am currently expanding the National Treasures of Japan article (see here). In order to grasp the various types of cultural properties and designations, a schematic diagram like this (page 34 upper diagram) or this (page 4) would be very helpful. It would be great if a graphist could create such diagram. The generic terms (tangible/intangible/folk cultural properties, monuments,...) should be distinguished (by color or so) from the designations (Important cultural properties, national treasures,...). It would be nice to have the top designations (national treasures , special historic site, special place of scenic beauty, special Natural Monuments) distinguished (by color or so) from the lower grade designations. If necessary for readability, the small texts explaining what is included in the categories could be skipped. bamse (talk) 18:18, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
Mao Zedong/Hu Jintao Signature
Article(s): Mao Zedong, Hu Jintao
Request: I'm terrible with these types of signatures. Can someone vectorize this? Connormah (talk) 21:00, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):
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Energy levels in lithium converging on the first ionization energy. Lowest three values of orbital angular momentum.
Article(s): Rydberg atom, Energy level
Request: This is an image that should definitely be an SVG and is probably trivial to convert. I created it in Mathematica version 6 which can export as SVG but does so in a way that seems to display incorrectly within Wikipedia. If it helps I could provide a file with the datapoints for the positions of the levels. DJIndica (talk) 03:40, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Graphist opinion(s):