Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Images and Media/Illustration taskforce/Archive 1

message: User:Bishonen recently posted a small conundrum to the Village Pump involving the shortage of photographs of late singer-songwriter Cornelis Vreeswijk. The relatively few existing photographs are not compatible with the GFDL, and Bishonen does not think it likely that any of the copyright holders would be eager to license their photos as such. I suggested the possibility of a Wikipedian creating an original sketch or portrait, based on existing photos; being an original work, it could then be licensed under the GFDL. This approach might be useful for other persons for which we have articles, and could be included in this WikiProject so that requests can be handled by any idle portrait illustrators we might have. Thoughts? Concerns? -- Wapcaplet 15:43, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: This is an excellent idea and one that I will definitely take up. There are a plethora of biography pages on Wikipedia that do not have a picture because there are no photographs that can be licensed under GFDL. Creating a portrait of the person based on a photograph falls under fair use and would benefit everybody. I'll start off creating a portrait of Cornelis Vreeswijk and we'll see how it goes from there. --Reverie (talk) 14:18, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I just uploaded a portrait of Cornelis. Hopefully I can add portraits to many more biographies from here on out. --Reverie (talk) 02:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portrait illustration 

message: It appear than SVG cannot be support by wikipedia (commons). Have other vectoriel graph which can be support on wikipedia ? And can we do something to improve the situation, to be able to share SVG and vectoriel files. Yug 22:15, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  SVG 

message: Hi WikiProject Illustrationians. Please have a look at information graphics which is an umbrella term for the types of illustrations that one might find in a how-to guide, an illustrated encyclopedia. Graphs, charts, but also mechanical diagrams, maps, and so on fall under the arch of infographics.
Anyway, I have dabbled with creating information graphics in the past. The problem I see with it in the context of Wikipedia is that the currently technology there isn't really a good "wikitext" style graphics format. SVG would probably be the ideal. But barring that, images will be mostly created on a one-off basis never to be changed again. That seems like a problem, especially in the case of timelines and charts which people might want to change quite a bit. Sbwoodside 03:35, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information Graphics 

message: I just downloaded Inkscape and made my first SVG-format diagram, :Image:ELISA-sandwich.svg.  I'd appreciate comments about it.  — JVinocur (talk • contribs) 15:50, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for feedback 

message: There's a discussion about the category associated with this recent (3 July 06) template for tagging images which are claimed to be photographs but "obviously" not. It's been used twice. I think that this project and Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography should be given some input as to what happens. Discussion here. --Dhartung | Talk 04:02, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:Notphoto 

message: Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory.  These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages: 
*User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory, 
*User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2, 
*User:Badbilltucker/Philosophy and religion Directory, 
*User:Badbilltucker/Sports Directory, 
*User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory, 
*User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
*User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
*User:Badbilltucker/Science directory
and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory.
The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. 
It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 22:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now moved the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 13:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project Directory 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention.  Badbilltucker 18:50, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: I only work in XaraXtreme, and unfortunately the windows version does not support SVG export yet, which is a pain as I've lots of great things I could contribute in SVG rather than PNG. Does anyone know a workaround for this? I know open Xara supports it, but I don't have a linux system to run that. Emoscopes Talk 02:05, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Xara compatibility 

message: There is a new Graphics Lab project that is trying to find a place in the English Wikipedia. Please see Wikipedia talk:Graphic Lab#Merge with Wikipedia:Requested pictures for a discussion on how it could be integrated into existing projects to avoid conflicts and confusion. Thanks! MithrandirMage 00:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graphics Lab 

message: Hello there. I've taken the liberty of rewriting this WikiProject page in the interest of clarity and ease of use. I've added suitable templates to the top and restructured the project's description, clarifying and expanding upon this project's purpose, as well as how users may go about helping. I believe my efforts have been worthwhile, but if you disagree, please let me know by responding to this post; hopefully we can work out a compromise that will be both attractive and informative. Thanks, and happy editing! MithrandirMageT 19:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complete Page Revamp 

message: If I were to find a map on google and then trace over it and make it pretty in photoshop would i be able to release that into the public domain or use it in wikipedia at all. Dommccas 18:42, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not a copyright expert, but I suspect not - derivative work. The right page to ask is at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. But you might want to check Wikipedia:Blank maps and Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Source materials to see if they have what you want. -- John Broughton   (♫♫) 16:34, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Map Copyright

message: There is currently a discussion at the village pump, concerning the current way of displaying galleries, and a possible alternative. All editors are encouraged to take part. Puchiko (Talk-email) 23:26, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image gallery 

message: Per this discussion, the next step in adding a footnote starter button to the edit toolbar (that's the row of icons you see above the edit box, when in edit mode) is to actually design an icon.
Icons look like this, individually. 
Anyone interested? If so, please drop a note at the village pump discussion mentioned above. Thanks! -- John Broughton   (♫♫) 16:30, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anyone interested in helping design a new button for the edit toolbar? 

message: I'm looking for a skilled graphic designer.
I need an image for a non-barnstar Wikipedia award with the theme "World Traveler".  
I was thinking perhaps the following image, without the barnstar, and with the globe (or another one) superimposed over the Wikipedia globe (or the Wikipedia globe superimposed over it) - I'd like to see the world's countries and the puzzle pieces (with the continents more prominent).
The image also needs a passport laying on the surface beneath the globe stand (where its shadow is, but the shadow should be retained as well). The image's background must be transparent (not white like the background of the image below).
Is this something you can do?
If so, please contact me on my talk page.
I look forward to your reply.
The Transhumanist  17:22, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graphic designer needed 

message: I feel that there could be some work done in standardising graphs.  There is a bit of a hodge-podge at present and it could do with tidying up.  Anyone got a few spare minutes?... 10:22, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graphs 

message: where did everybody go?
Oh well. I'll look for help elswhere.....but I refuse to leave the project. Maybe it will pick up later.--Amadscientist (talk) 06:07, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What the hell happened to this project? 

message: Hi! I've proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Files that this project be merged with a number of other WikiProjects related to images/files on Wikipedia. All comments there from the members of this project would be much appreciated. Thanks! –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 23:02, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed project merge 

message: Given the generally favorable response to the proposal, it is now proposed that this project be redirected if there are no objections so that its purpose can be carried forward by the new project, Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media. Please join the conversation at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Images_and Media#Redirect proposal. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:39, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect proposal