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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Good article and featured article topicon redesign
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Current good article icon
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Current featured content icon
- Article(s)
- 5,859 featured articles
- 3,696 featured lists
- 32,507 good articles
- Assorted additional talk, help, and process pages
- Request
- Yes, this one is a big one.
- Background: The current symbols for good articles and featured content have been used since those systems were introduced way back in Wikipedia's early days. They have significant problems. The featured article icon is too skeuomorphic, giving it an outdated look, and its excessive detail causes it to render poorly at small scale. The good article icon, meanwhile, has been adopted throughout the rest of Wikimedia (and in some places on Wikipedia) as the "support vote" icon, leading to conflicting usage. Far worse than the issues with them individually, however, is the fact that there is no shared visual language between them (the GA icon uses the norro style, and the FA icon does not use any style). When compounded by their overall lack of prominence (a separate issue that we're trying to address), this has led to the unfortunate situation where many (perhaps most) non-editing readers could not tell you whether a star or a green badge is a higher distinction. Given how much effort we put into the GA/FA systems, there's more than a bit of tragic irony to that.
- Process: This is the first stage in the process of redesigning the icons (after informal discussions in various places). Ideally, several proposals will be put forth that can be compared against the status quo in a more formal and widely-advertised round of !voting (similar to the process for the MediaWiki logo redesign), with the winner adopted.
- Design details: The redesigned icons could end up being anything from checkmarks (a la the Twitter verification badge) to a silver star for GAs to a multi-star system that begins with one star for stubs and increases thereafter; feel free to get creative.
- Also, since the whole idea here is to unify the symbology, the redesign will need to include the associated symbols in addition to the main icons. You don't have to design them all now, but candidates with at least an articulated vision of what they should look like may be more likely to win support once we reach the formal !voting stage. Here are the current icons still in use that I could find (there may be a few more fringe ones):
Related icons
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- In truth, the potential scope of this project could be a lot bigger, trying to unify all of the icons used anywhere on Wikipedia. However, recent attempts to do so have failed, and their utility is questionable, given that most icons do not appear in reader-facing areas and thus have a vastly more limited reach. Redesigning these two icons is a more feasible task with clear and significant benefits for readers across tens of thousands of pages.
- Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk 05:08, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
- Discussion
- @Sdkb: I would recommend posting this at the Commons graphics lab as well, as it is significantly more active over there. Pbrks (talk) 14:50, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
- @Pbrks: Thanks for the tip. Since this request is specific to en-WP, I'd prefer the main discussion be hosted here, but I'll copy the request there and invite folks over. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 21:38, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
- Consider color blindness (esp. red-green): In data visualization circles, there is increasing awareness of how graphics should be crafted to allow color blind individuals to distinguish through shading, what normally sighted individuals distinguish directly through color perception. (One can test shading in Photoshop etc by removing saturation.) It's my understanding that red-green color blindness is a common type, though not the only type of color blindness. Some color scales are better than others: see Scientific American. —RCraig09 (talk) 22:53, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
Resolved discussion about mandate for change
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- Update: Mandate acquired. The formal Village Pump proposal has been archived, and per here, it successfully acquired a mandate for the icons to be redesigned, so I am removing the "on hold" box around this section. I'll leave it up to others to decide how precisely to proceed from here; I hope that someone steps up to take the lead on shepherding the process from here forward, since I'm not sure I can do it myself. This thread can be archived once (and only once) we've moved to the next stage. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 22:09, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
Flag of Nadi
- Article(s)
- Flag of Fiji, Nadi.
- Request
- Could someone please create an SVG file of the town of Nadi (in Fiji), as seen here. A close up of the arms can be seen here as well, if it helps. Thanks. Snow Lion Fenian (talk) 00:16, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
- Discussion
Flag of Suva
- Article(s)
- Flag of Fiji, Suva.
- Request
- Could someone please create an SVG file of the flag of the city of Suva (in Fiji), as seen here. A close up of the arms can be seen here as well, if it helps. Thanks. Snow Lion Fenian (talk) 00:16, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
- Discussion
SVG templates - Irish Wolfhound
- Article(s)
- Template
- Request
- Could someone please create some heraldic SVG templates of an Irish Wolfhound, based on the images seen here. And, if it's not too much, I'd ask that a number of them be created, displaying the Wolfhound in various different positions (running, standing on all fours, rampant, lying down, and so on). Thanks. Snow Lion Fenian (talk) 02:38, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
- Discussion
Historical Logos of VARTA
- Article(s)
- VARTA
- Request
- Could one of the graphists draw me the historical logos of that company? Will provide the pictures via eMail. -- Antemister (talk) 13:01, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
- Discussion
Coat of arms of the North West Company
- Article(s)
- North West Company
- Request
- Would someone please create an SVG image of the coat of arms of the now defunct North West Company, based on the above image. Thanks. Snow Lion Fenian (talk) 21:24, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
- Discussion
Coat of arms of the Hudson's Bay Company
- Article(s)
- Hudson's Bay Company
- Request
- Could someone please create an SVG file of the coat of arms of the Hudson's Bay Company, based on the above photo, and also from the information here. Thanks. Snow Lion Fenian (talk) 21:24, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
- Discussion
Aircraft Manufacturer Logos
- Article(s)
- Aeronca Aircraft, American Eagle Aircraft Corporation, AviaBellanca Aircraft, Bach Aircraft, Barkley-Grow Aircraft, Brewster Aeronautical Corporation,E. M. Laird Airplane Company, Great Lakes Aircraft Company, Hiller Aircraft, International Aircraft, Interstate Aircraft, Keystone Aircraft, Luscombe Aircraft, Porterfield Aircraft Corporation, Rearwin Airplanes, Stearman Aircraft, Stinson Aircraft Company, Temco Aircraft, Timm Aircraft, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Vought
- Request
- Could someone please create SVG versions of the aircraft manufacturer logos for the following external images:
- American Eagle Aircraft Company from GraphicsMaxx.com
- Bach Aircraft Company from GhostsofWallStreet.com
- Bellanca Aircraft Corporation from MyShopify.com
- Brewster Aeronautical Corporation from AvionsLegendaires.net
- Great Lakes Aircraft Company from GreatLakesAircraftCompany.com
- Hiller Aircraft Corporation from HillerAircraft.com
- International Aircraft Corporation from eBay.com
- Interstate Aircraft and Engineering Company from ThisDayinAviation.com
- Keystone Aircraft Corporation from ThisDayinAviation.com
- Luscombe Aircraft Corporation from Luscombe-Aircraft.de
- Porterfield Aircraft Corporation from GraphicsMaxx.com
- Rearwin Airplanes from Air-and-Space.com
- Stearman Aircraft Corporation from Stearman.at
- Stinson Aircraft Company from IMPDb.com
- Temco Aircraft Corporation from eBay.com
- Timm Aircraft Company from AvionsLegendaires.net
- Vega Aircraft Corporation from ThisDayinAviation.com
- Vought Aircraft Company from VoughtAircraft.com
There are also a few already uploaded photographs that could be vectorized:
My understanding is that these should be okay as other aircraft manufacturer logos are in use at:
- File:Bellaircraftlogo.png
- File:Command-Aire logo.jpg
- File:Consolidated_Aircraft_Logo.png
- File:CONVAIR logo.png
- File:Curtiss logo.svg
- File:Fleet Aircraft logo.jpg
- File:Fokker usa logo.png
- File:Glenn L Martin Company logo.png
- File:Grumman.svg
- File:Howard-Logo.jpg
- File:HughesAircraftCo.png
- File:Hughes Helicopters logo.svg
- File:Mcdonnell Aircraft Corporation Logo.png
- File:NorthAmericanAviation.png
- File:Northrop logo.jpg
- File:Republic Aviation logo.png
- File:Sparlogoexec7w.jpg
- File:Taylorcraftlogo.jpg
- File:Travel Air logo.jpg
- File:Vultee Aircraft logo.png
I realize this may be asking a lot, so I apologize if it is too much. —Noha307 (talk) 02:24, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
- Discussion
FC Santa Claus
- Article(s)
- FC Santa Claus
- Request
- Can someone make the background transparent, as it was with the previous revisions please? The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 06:59, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
- Discussion
Graphic contains a misspelled word: please fix
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Firearm actions
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Description of second image (if needed)
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Description of third image (if needed; don't request too many at once, though)
- Article(s)
- Breechblock
- Request
Image has a misspelled word in the lower right square. "Bleechblock" should be "Breechblock. -- Quisqualis (talk) 06:24, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
- Discussion
Flag of the Friends of the British Overseas Territories
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Erroneous flag of the Friends of the British Overseas Territories.
- Article(s)
- Any article this is already on.
- Request
- Would someone please alter the above file so that it looks the way the flag of the Friends of the British Overseas Territories should actually look like, as seen on their webpage here, as well as this photo here. Thanks. Snow Lion Fenian (talk) 13:05, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
- Discussion