Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Maintenance

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Image maintenance

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 part of the Graphic Lab and covers most of the maintenance to be done. You can find backlogs, image maintenance categories, templates, and clean up tasks here. This page is not for requests or resources!

Interested in helping out? Check out the uploading standards, then go through the maintenance tasks listed here. You can also go over to the image workshop page and lend a hand. Feel free to add your entry to Wikigraphist abilities and yourself to Category:Wikigraphists. You can also add {{User Wikigraphist}} to your userpage.

Can't draw a thing? You can still help us: We need people to find images that need improvement and to submit them to the Image workshop or use a template to list them in the categories below (see those categories for instructions).

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

2012

Apr, — : Hackfest_qgis_2012 conference in Lyon, France, about the GIS/map making software QGIS.
Feb 27 :Computer hardware/software photos showing copyrighted material contains some retouchable images; further discussion at commons:Commons talk:Chris's Acorns#WMF response. -- Trevj (talk) 14:09, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Feb, — : Interested by "Lord of the Rings"-like maps ? Isaac Stewart share a nice explanation/tutorial with us. Have fun !
Jan. 30: You can now learn SVG mapmaking using our "SVG exercices for mapmaking tutorial (v.12/01/30: to open in Inkscape). Let try it :)

June 2011

10: GIS/QGis map turorial lesson 1 published by French user, waiting copyedit and testing.
10: Quality Push in preparation, need of new contributors, mapmakers interested to learn GIS mapmaking, tutorials, and manager/editors for bold project clean up.

May

3: a Tutorials sub-page is under construction. Creation of new graphic tutorials as well as translations are welcome!
2: The Map workshop is in need of cartographic editors!

January 2009

27: six major map conventions have been collected across the different Wikipedias, and are now displayed in Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Conventions (Currently still being developed)
22: start of major clean up of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps. A map workshop has been established

October 2008

3:Volunteers who are interested in attracting more requesters to Image Workshop can add {{Wikipedia ads|ad=156}} to their userpage.

September 2008

21:Help shape the Graphic Lab by reviewing the facelift idea and posting your comments here!

Types of work done

Whitening or cleaning the background
Removal of objects and color improvement
Image restoration
Vectorization of raster graphics

Images will be improved on request of a user/IP who submits a request on the Image workshop page. An explanation of how to do that is shown at the top of the page.

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

Graphics Lab Archive (all pre-October 2009, before the three current Workshops existed) v t e
	Completed requests from the former workshops (Images to improve & Image workshop) were archived regularly: 2006 2007 2008 2009


Name and Function	Operating system(s)	Download
Inkscape, the general standard for creating and editing SVG files	Windows; macOS; Linux	All
GIMP, similar to Adobe Photoshop. Used for the retouching of images, and creating raster graphics (PNG, JPEG). Can also be used to create animations (GIF) when the GIMP Animation Package (GAP) is installed.	Windows; macOS; Linux; Solaris; BSD	Windows, Linux/BSD/Solaris macOS
hugin, for the stitching of panoramic images together into one big image, correction of perspective and various other things.	Windows; macOS; Linux; BSD; Other Unix Systems	All
QGIS, to create GIS maps' layers: topographic background, shaded relief, states/provinces polygons, rivers/lakes/coasts, urban areas, etc. PNG or SVG.	Windows; macOS; Linux; etc.	All
Open Jump GIS, to create SVG or PNG maps and GIS vector datasets.	Windows; macOS; Linux	All
Blender, for the creation and editing of 3D images.	Windows; macOS; Linux; Solaris; IRIX; C source	All
Scribus, a free desktop publishing application (DTP).	Windows; macOS; Linux; Unix; OS/2; eComStation; ArcaOS	All
POV-Ray, a free 3D ray tracer.	Windows; macOS; Linux	All
Dia, create and edit diagrams and graphics that only require basic shapes. Supports exporting to vector (SVG) and various raster file formats.	Windows; Linux; macOS	All