Wikipedia talk:Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop

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 discussion page for the Illustration workshop. Any comments or questions about this specific workshop may be made here. Note that requests for image improvement, etc. do not belong here but should go on the main requests page

Outline drawing wanted for article - how do I request it?

I think the Wikipedia page on plastic bullets would be improved by a line illustration showing the shape and dimensions of plastic bullets used by Israeli riot control forces, illustrated in figure one of this academic paper and described on page 381 (The plastic bullet (Fig. 1) is a 5.62 mm missile, 1.5 cm long):

https://www.jtcvs.org/article/S0022-5223(19)35042-1/pdf

I can't do the job myself. Assuming that such a drawing can be prepared based on that source without falling foul of any restrictions, where and how should I ask for someone's assistance?

Thank you. Michael F 1967 (talk) 11:22, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

@Michael F 1967: Go directly to Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop and click on "New Request". Best wishes. —RCraig09 (talk) 16:08, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I've clicked on "New Request" and unfortunately I need to ask for more help.

I don't understand how to fill in the request. I'd appreciate some advice on the following (apologies for the formatting - this is the best I could do by way of displaying the wikipedia markup):

{{subst:void|↑↑↑ !!! Don't forget to add a headline to your request !!! ↑↑↑}}

{{GLNF|Non-free image.ext|Description of the image}}

1) The advice: "Don't forget to add a headline to your request" - what is meant by "a headline"? And where do I enter it? In the Subject box?

2) What am I supposed to put in this bit: GLNF|Non-free image.ext|Description of the image

- I don't have a link to the original image file, only a link to the PDF containing the original image.

Thank you. Michael F 1967 (talk) 18:39, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

@Michael F 1967: I copied your request to the workshop page itself. It may be several days before someone takes an interest. —RCraig09 (talk) 21:45, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks

@Snubcube: Re: Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop/Archive/Jul 2016#Interference theory - yes, those are exactly right! I added them to Decay theory. Many thanks, and apologies for the long delay in checking on that request. -- Beland (talk) 23:11, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

A tool to monitor and improve images in Wikiprojects

Hi there! I've been a wikigrpahist for some months now. I thought about a tool to find needed images in a Wikiproject and also to find low resolution images needing improvements.

I called it Visual Content Assessment Tool, or simply VCAT.

A working version of VCAT can be found at VCAT-dashboard, you can try it using one of the samples of data I already extracted, or you can extract data for any Wikiproject using the extraction tool, a command line tool I created for this purpose.

Some of the actions you can do with this tool are:

• Monitoring the visual content coverage in a Wikiproject
• Detecting articles needing images (eg. articles without images)
• Detecting low resolution images to improve (eg. raster diagrams to be vectorized(

What do you think? Could it be a useful tool? MingoBerlingo (talk) 15:06, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

How can I resize SVG images (not objects)?

E.g. If I have a 100x100 px image, and want to reduce it to 20x20 px without any change in appearance. (Apart maybe from stroke width, which I can set manually in Inkscape.) It's helpful to have all images in a series set to the same size, line weight, etc., for display but especially when merging them into new images.

I understand 'scale' [under 'transform'], 'fit canvas to object size', etc. in Inkscape, but those will ruin the alignment of the object on the canvass.

If some program other than Inkscape could do this in bulk, that would be even better. I could then clean up the stroke width if I needed to in Inkscape.

BTW, I'm on Linux.

Thanks, — kwami (talk) 00:25, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

@Kwamikagami: Normally it would be best to ask these types of questions at Wikipedia:SVG help. However, if I understand your question correctly, you might use a text editor to try:

<g transform="translate(hhh,vvv) scale(0.2, 0.2)"> . . . </g>

or

<g transform="scale(0.2, 0.2) translate(hhh,vvv)"> . . . </g>

where hhh and vvv are horizontal and vertical adjustments, respectively.

Experiment with ordering of the translate and scale specifications, as this is a guess. I hope this helps. —RCraig09 (talk) 04:01, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll give it a shot. — kwami (talk) 04:04, 10 April 2024 (UTC)