Wikipedia talk:Graphic Lab/Facelift

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Welcome to the Graphic Lab!
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What is it?
The Graphic Lab improves any graphical content stored on Wikimedia Commons and the English Wikipedia.

Wikigraphists work to improve the quality of images that are proposed to them by the community. This involves work such as extracting key elements from photos, improving the color of images or emphasizing the main subject, 'stitching' multiple images together and often vectorizing images (converting to SVG). We also create new drawings, diagrams and maps when requests are made to do so.

Interested in helping out? Then go to the Images to improve page, and start improving. You can also add your entry to Wikigraphist abilities and yourself to Category:Wikigraphist.

Can't draw a thing? You can still help us: We need people to find images that need improvement and submit them. Anyone can make requests, even unregistered users.

For examples of work done by the Graphic Lab, see the archives of past work.

What can we do?

Whitening or cleaning the background

Removal of extraneous objects and colour improvement

Image restoration

Vectorization

For a better view of the capabilities of the Graphics Workshop, see the archives.

Instructions

Requests for the Graphics Lab are placed on the images to improve page with explanation of the work requested, following the instructions in the template. A Wikigraphist will sign up for the work, carry out the work, and, after approval, replace the original image with the improved one.

All help is welcome!

Who are we?
We are Wikigraphists: Volunteers who are skilled with image work. Someday image editing will be the same as text editing. Then we will disappear?

Local news

News

April

Need your help !International Coordination 28: Important : in preparation to the Wikimania 2008 (Alexandria, Egypt), it will be welcome to update the Summer 2007 presentation of the Graphic Labs, noticing the raise of the English lab (BIG success ! Too much !) to the current 50pics/month average. Ideas and analysis welcome !

March

Need your help ! 21 : The increased # of requests mean more graphic users would be useful. People with graphic or artistic skills are encouraged.

February

International Coordination: when you create a graphic tool which will be use several times, please categorize it as [[Category:Graphic Tool]] on commons.

The script mentioned below is dead

International Coordination: For the legislature diagrams, a script to create standardized SVGs has been created. Bug reports may be reported here and new ideas here.

January 2008

Recommendation OG : Internal maintenance: A new system and bot for request archiving is being set up and is waiting on the bot implementers.
14 : A questions page has been started, so people can ask questions concerning the graphics lab, work done, images, etc.
12 : A new recommendation for display of legislatures' compositions is being worked on.
11 : A page for standards has been started, so that pertinent standards may be suggested and developed.

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