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Academic research project on "2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.svg"

I am an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and have been a Wikipedia researcher for over a decade. I wanted to inquire if you might be available for an interview for a research project I am doing about the "2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.svg" file. I'm focused on how this image is produced and governed, how it circulates across articles and projects, and the technical stack of templates and modules that enable this "war mapping". I would like to make sure that my understanding is accurate with an expert like yourself as well as to document your experience and perspectives participating in this unusual collaboration. If you're interested, please contact me at brian.keegan@colorado.edu Madcoverboy (talk) 22:32, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello! I sent you an email response earlier this week but I never got a reply. Did you recieve the email? Physeters^✉ 03:22, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

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Congrats

	Enjoy college!
	Wanted to send my congratulations on getting accepted into Penn. I just got accepted to college (NC State) too! 😁 Johnson524 19:23, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

@Johnson524 Thank you so much! I wish you the best on you college journey as well, congratulations! Physeters^✉ 23:12, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Lower Dnieper islands/Chervone

Hello, Krynky is under Russian control for a long time now, as well as one islet that’s marked as under Ukraine, is actually under Russian control per ISW. Review the map of the islands in lower Dnieper river. Please change the control of the islands according to ISW. And please geolocate Chervone somehow and put it on the map. I cannot give you a link on the telegram channel, as it’s off-site. It appears the source is unreliable. Make sure to change the island control based on ISW and add Chervone village so it’s displayed, along with the name. I know that you are busy, but it would help if you could tell people about how to edit the map, such as add places, change territorial control, since I know that you’re in Penn University now, you’ll probably be busy studying up. 195.64.239.124 (talk) 17:39, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello again! I've gone ahead and added Chervone to the map as you requested.

The islands in the lower Dnieper are actually correctly colored based on the ISW map. The orange color on the ISW map is labeled "Claimed Russian Territory in Ukraine". What this means is that the area was previously known to be controlled by Ukraine, though Russian forces have since claimed control over it with little or no evidence, however, it also means that Ukrainian forces have not provided any evidence that they still control it either. These areas are sort of like grey zones that you may see on other maps. It has been precedent for a while to show these areas as Ukrainian controlled until it is absolutely certain that Russia controls them, see this disscussion from 2022, File talk:2022 Russian_invasion of Ukraine.svg/Archive 3#ISW Russian Claims.

On Krynky, the ISW map shows that Ukrainian forces still hold a very small beachhead in the southwestern part of the settlement, meaning that it is still contested.

Also, thanks for being willing to help with editing the map! I think I'll still be able to maintain it through college, but I can teach you how to edit it yourself. You'll first need Inkscape, a free SVG editor, which you can download here, https://inkscape.org/. Then you'll need to download the map as an SVG and open it in Inkscape. It will probably take a little while to open, as the map is a rather large file. To change the frontline, double click the Russian occupied area to reveal the perimeter nodes and then adjust them to your desired shape. To change the status of a city, delete the marker it currently has and replace it by copy/pasting a marker of the same size with the correct status, ensuring that it is put in the same place as the old marker. You may use the ISW's map or the Wikipedia page Territorial control during the Russo-Ukrainian War as sources for making changes. If you would like to use any other source you must discuss it on the Territorial control page's talk page. If they come to an agreement that the source is reliable, then you may use that source going forward. Please do not try to edit any text that is already on the map, as all of the text elements contains hidden translations that are quite fragile and easy to break. If you plan to upload your version of the map, ensure you edit the most recent version, as you would not want to accidentally undo a previous edit. If you have any other questions about editing the map, I would be glad to answer them! Physeters^✉ 20:12, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Geolocate and add Levadne village.

Hello there! In zaporizhia there is a formerly occupied village called Levadne. Please geolocate and put it on the map like you did with Chervone. 46.211.228.177 (talk) 12:04, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello @46.211.228.177, while I'm not Physeters, I thought I'd leave comment because I made the article for for Levadne, Zaporizhzhia Oblast not too long ago! While it is technically on the frontline after being recaptured by Ukraine, I would personally be against its inclusion on any major map since the village had a pre-war population of only one person, and consists of only around three houses which are all no doubt destroyed at this point. I hope this helps! Johnson524 19:15, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you both, I did not know about that. 46.211.110.0 (talk) 09:09, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

I can add Levadne to the map, but like @Johnson524 said, the village only had a population of one, so it might not make the most sense. Maybe their is another more significant village nearby that I could add instead? Physeters^✉ 21:39, 23 June 2024 (UTC)