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Graphics Lab

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 main, central discussion page for the entire graphics lab. Any comments or questions about the lab may be made here. Note that requests for image improvement, etc. do not belong here but should go on the main requests page

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Note about Friendly IPs

An originality of the Graphic lab is that 2 friendly IP frequently contribute here :

68.39.174.238, IP from Newjersey : don't want an account.
220.135.4.212 (new appart): IP from Taiwan, old wikigraphist, use IP because currently in strike and wikibreak -___-. —Preceding comment was added at 14:53, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

A new header idea.

On all of the pages and subpages of this project, there's Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/header floating up there, but to me it appears as though it's most appropriate only for the main pages. I suggest this for the rest of the subpages:

Notice: The Graphics Lab is always in need of a helping hand; All are welcome to try their hand at the requests!

Graphics Lab

This (sub)page is part of Graphics Lab, a project to improve the graphical content of the Wikimedia projects. More information about the lab can be found on it's main page and requests page. To ask questions or make a suggestions, see the main talk page. To request an image improvement, use the requests page.

Also, if this is made into a sub-page like header that can be transcluded, it could be possible to add a parameter so the purpose of the page can be specified: {{subheader|[...]}} would add a final sentence to the section describing the specific page. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 19:35, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good to me. I suggest you be bold and go for it! --Timeshifter (talk) 17:23, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Could you create the subpage for me? I'll do the rest... Thanx, 68.39.174.238 (talk) 23:39, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Subpages are created by going to the page that you want to be the main page for the subpage. I suggest Wikipedia:Graphic Lab. It looks like most header templates are using it as the main page. On that main page click any edit button. Then type in

[[/NAME OF SUBPAGE]]

The key part is the forward slash. Click the preview button. A red link will show up. Click the red link and then enter some info on that page to start it. Save the page. Viola! You have a subpage. Use its name with curly brackets to put the header wherever you want. --Timeshifter (talk) 18:46, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That would be great if it wasn't "Unauthorized". 68.39.174.238 (talk) 19:18, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can I ask why you don't want a user name? Nowadays it is completely anonymous. One picks a name and a password, and that is it. No other info is required. You can sign in and out at anytime. Even if you decide to leave an email address you can choose whether it is public or not. --Timeshifter (talk) 19:29, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Still need the page made? §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:42, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/top is now being used for that purpose. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 00:58, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Personal Vectorization request

Hello, I can't find anyone more qualified. I have a personal request, can you vectorize this barcode? http://kirbywarp.googlepages.com/Barcode16.jpg Contact me at kirbywarp[spam, remove this box]@gmail.com

    ~     WaddleDee (talk) 00:08, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why? What does it represent? 68.39.174.238 (talk) 04:31, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is just a personal request. It represents my personal id barcode on campus, and I want to get creative with it. :) If you can do this, then Thank You

~ WaddleDee (talk) 02:17, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's such a simple image, you could probably use use "Trace" in Inkscape and get an almost exact representation of it yourself. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 02:21, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm Ok, I will try that... But I would feel more comfortable useing one made by someone who knows how...

~ WaddleDee (talk) 02:22, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The point is, it's so simple that the differences between yours and someone elses will probably almost nonexistant. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 16:03, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just tried doing it in inkscape right now. I could not get it to work... I tried to use trace but it didn't work. Could I just get some help??? I am new to ALL of this. WaddleDee (talk) 01:12, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here you go: http://vyznev.net/misc/Barcode16.svg —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 02:18, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!! This helps soo much. WaddleDee (talk) 05:08, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Announcement for Graphic Lab Volunteers


Wikipedia ads	file info – #156

{{Wikipedia ads|ad=156}} Author: MMXX


Wikipedia ads	file info – #150

{{Wikipedia ads|ad=150}} Author: L'Aquatique

We have two banners/ads for Graphic Lab, volunteers and users who are interested in attracting more requester and volunteers to Graphic Lab and Image Workshop can add {{Wikipedia ads|ad=156}} or {{Wikipedia ads|ad=150}} to their userpage. ■ MMXX^talk 15:19, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For the first one, it should be "At the Graphics Lab", "Image workshop" is just the name of a subpage. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 01:50, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

But for requesters the Image Workshop is main page, and the ad is also linked to Image Workshop. actually this ad is just for attracting requesters not volunteers. ■ MMXX^talk 09:51, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

When adding a copyrighted image to the page...

File:Grahpic Lab Copyright.svg

Requesters add copyrighted images to this page pretty frequently. I was thinking of giving them a template to use to avoid getting the image link removed. What do you guys think about something like this, where they would just have to type something like {{GLCOPY|Name.ext}} and be done with a result like this? This sound reasonable or should I just flush it? §hep • ¡Talk to me! 22:52, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I dislike the current icon, but something like that would be OK. It would also be nice if we could get one of the copyright botts to recognize the template/page and use that instead of the current, very broken, attempt to comment the image out. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 01:48, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ya, I'm not too hot on the image either. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 02:12, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I tried this, but keep getting black boxes. I'm not sure what went wrong in the text..any ideas? §hep • ¡Talk to me! 14:25, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One comment: Can anyone even try to read that text when in a gallery? I suggest changing it to just "WP:NFCC" or something very short and easily read. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 19:38, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It was in the metadata. I made the changes as you suggested, and left a note on the image page for those who click it. I tried to make the image link to WP:NFCC, but imagemaps and tumbnails don't work well together. If you think it should be linked there I'll see what I can do though. (I placed it in the graphics lab so you can test readability) §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:35, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Idea, instead of the big text block, how about "This was a fair use image [cr]WP:NFCC" ? Or is this getting to be too much? 68.39.174.238 (talk) 00:15, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Now I'm confused. I thought we didn't want a lot fo text? How about you make something that you think would work, upload it online, and then I can upload it here? I really don't mind what the image looks like? §hep • ¡Talk to me! 03:00, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It was just a suggestion so newbies who got sent to NFCC knew what to look for. Maybe we need a special page "WP:Why did my image get replaced by a copyright sign?" to explain WHY we do that :)? 68.39.174.238 (talk) 02:35, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Question on this strange image

Image:Simplex4051FirealarmOld.jpg. On my browser (Ffx 3.0.3), the image at the top is completely different from the thumbnails of the image revisions. Also, if you click on the past revision images, you get the current image. Was there something I missed here? 68.39.174.238 (talk) 03:38, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

These are two completely different image uploaded in one place, but the image at top should match with thumbnail of the image revisions at top, try emptying your cache or refresh page by (Ctrl+F5)..New,Old ■ MMXX^talk 10:16, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed; thanx, 68.39.174.238 (talk) 01:46, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A new question

For Image:WindowsHomeServer (Server Storage).png, the last thumbnails appear to have disappeared. Is this normal? 68.39.174.238 (talk) 20:51, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

for me also the 27Nov , 17Nov and 12Jan thumbnails are disappeared, I think it is temporary, I had this same problem a couple of times before but now they are ok. ■ MMXX^talk 05:34, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Problem?

Is it just me or are some finished requests taking forever to get archived? 68.39.174.238 (talk) 06:34, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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 For [[:Image:WindowsHomeServer (Server Storage).png]], the last thumbnails appear to have disappeared. Is this normal? [[Special:Contributions/68.39.174.238|68.39.174.238]] ([[User talk:68.39.174.238|talk]]) 20:51, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 :for me also the 27Nov , 17Nov and 12Jan thumbnails are disappeared, I think it is temporary, I had this same problem a couple of times before but now they are ok. '''[[User:Mmxx|<span style='color:#800000;background-color:#FFE4E1;'>&nbsp; ■ MMXX</span>]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Mmxx|''<span style='color: #800000;'>talk</span>'']]&nbsp;</sup> 05:34, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
+== Problem? ==
+Is it just me or are some finished requests taking forever to get archived? [[Special:Contributions/68.39.174.238|68.39.174.238]] ([[User talk:68.39.174.238|talk]]) 06:34, 19 November 2008 (UTC)