Discussion Wikipédia:Atelier graphique/Lettre ouverte

message: We need such images, especially for Wikiversity and ease free language teaching/learning.
* see this existing project (about 2 hundred images with english meaning)
* see : page about animals, feelings, verbs etc.
* see also : how I used them to teach French
A such graphic project need to create about 200 - 400 images, by one skilled graphist, expressing simply (quickly draw in comic/manga style) the most used  words (objects, actions, animals, ...). And this will probably need more than 40 or 80 US$ (1? 2? 4US$ / image ?).
;With who take contact ?
* Kasuga : commons ja (creator of Wikipe-tan in manga style :  )
* LadyofHats : commons - de (best SVG graphist on commons :   )
* Niabot : commons - de (Seems a great SVG-Manga graphist :  , EN-3
* Yamavu : commons - have made some SVG 
* ?? others
I support more Kasuga because his characters are clearly link to Wikimedia and free knowledge share, the manga style (schematic draw) being especialy welcome for this use, but do he work in SVG ? For LadyofHats, I never seen him draw manga characters, but he have amazing skills, and already fully work in SVG format. For Niabot, I don't no if he can talk english, and he just made one amazing SVG-manga.
;how to process
The graphist should first show us 5 images, with the english word on the bottom. If the result is great, he get the task. Images should be :
* Format : SVG is strongly encouraged, of course (but PNG may be vertorized by volunteers later);
* Basic : drawing should be basic( avoid to have to many details = parasites). Images of such on this page are really fine, doesn't need more. 
* Style : your set of image have to be in the same graphic style (I encourage the Manga style) ;
* Words : be based on the Basic English wordlist (Basic_English_alphabetical_wordlist 200_Picturable_words).
* Background : transparent background need, or white one ;
* English : the english work should be display on the bottom with a clear font ;
* Size : each image should be in a square (ex: size 300px/300px) ;
* Name : Images should have a conventional name, ex with keyword "free" : Free-banana.svg ; Free-tree.svg, etc.
* Advancement : you should keep a wikipage with the list of the words you plan to do, and enlighting those that you already made.
Yug (talk) 24 juillet 2008 à 00:54 (CEST)
thread_title:  400 images for the 400 most use English words 

message: Hello,
After a talk with Yug, I'd like to propose a technical implementation of multi-language svg.
I think it is simple enough to be done by volunteers.
Proposition in 3 steps :
* 1/ Create a tool that can create automatically language-specific svg based on a multi-language svg file.
Example: :Image:Multilanguage test.svg generates :Image:Multilanguage test.svg/en :Image:Multilanguage test.svg/de :Image:Multilanguage test.svg/fr. (all languages present in the multilanguage). This step does not need any update of MediaWiki, and pictures can be easily integrated in projects.
* 2/ Integrate the tool in MediaWiki, making transparent the creation/update of the associated files /fr /de etc.
* 3/ Think about a probably infeasible automatic detection of language depending on the project, or on the selected user-interface language...
Wdyt? Plyd /!\ 5 janvier 2009 à 16:04 (CET)
thread_title:  Multilanguage svg - proposition "simple" 

message: Bonjour,
Je trouve les idées énoncées sur cette page très intéressantes et souhaite poursuivre la discussion afin de voir ce que peut faire Wikimédia France, notamment en terme d'aide financière. Les sommes énoncées sont tout à fait à la portée de l'association française, pas besoin d'aller voir du côté de la fondation ;) ~Pyb (d) 8 janvier 2009 à 16:34 (CET)
thread_title:  Wikimédia France