Re: [Foundation-l] Improving Wikipedia Information graphics

2012-04-07 Thread David Richfield
>> Can we please also have information on how to update them, and source >> files?  It's good to have brilliant graphics, but also very important >> to be able to recreate them. > > I guess not all students followed the best practice (and more will next > time): some of those images are SVG. That'

Re: [Foundation-l] Improving Wikipedia Information graphics

2012-04-06 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Steven Walling, 06/04/2012 00:39: These are fantastic. I don't see them on (EN) articles or Commons yet, though it's easy to miss... do the students need help uploading etc? All those images are hotlinked from Commons, or are we talking about different things? Some of them are in articles but

Re: [Foundation-l] Improving Wikipedia Information graphics

2012-04-06 Thread David Richfield
Very good stuff! Can we please also have information on how to update them, and source files? It's good to have brilliant graphics, but also very important to be able to recreate them. By the way, in the same breath, let me plug my basic, simple, parliament diagram creator (which writes svg file

Re: [Foundation-l] Improving Wikipedia Information graphics

2012-04-05 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Leinonen Teemu wrote: > Hi, > > I have a nice little project to share. Our graphic design students have > been improving some of the information graphics in the Wikipedia articles. > The work was done as part of their Information Design class. The teachers > of the

Re: [Foundation-l] Improving Wikipedia Information graphics

2012-04-05 Thread Andrew Lih
That's great stuff, thanks for letting the list know about it. Wikipedia may have squashed Encarta and put Britannica on its heels, but those encyclopedias had the edge with multimedia and professional infographics. This is a wonderful step forward and I hope we'll see more. -Andrew On Thu, Apr