[edit] Signature
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Hey, Numerator. Greetings from Passaic, NJ. Do remove the picture from your signature per WP:SIG. It puts an unnecessary strain on our servers, delays page loading, and is generally annoying. Thanks. - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 20:57, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, I'll take one of the two images off.
Black and WhiteUSERTALKCONTRIBS 21:38, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- I've changed it to this: —Black and White (TALKCONTRIBS) 00:07, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image Perspective
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Hi Alvin,
I've seen on Wikipedia how you've edited images (usually pictures of Bibles) to adjust the perspective, for example the image of the Revised Standard Version.
I've uploaded four or five Bible book pictures, and they look like they need their perspective adjusted too. Which program do you use to do it?
Thanks,
Michael
- To answer your question, I use Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 to adjust the perspective. About, the images you uploaded, would you please list them here. Thank you. —Black and WhiteUSERTALKCONTRIBS 01:00, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
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- Sorry, I'm not too familiar with all of the Wikipedia markup, but the images are:
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- Thanks. I will adjust their perspectives as soon as possible. Here is what I think about all four of the images:
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- —Black and WhiteUSERTALKCONTRIBS 19:40, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
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- Okay, here are the new images:
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- Hope you like them. If you want me to edit more photos you take, just leave a comment here on my talk page. —Black and WhiteUSERTALKCONTRIBS 22:22, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
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- Wow, thanks, they look more professional now. I especially like Image:The Message- The Bible in Contemporary Language (2002).jpg. By the way, is there a reason why you converted Image:Strongs.JPG into a PNG file with transparency? I assume there is a technical benefit (that I'm not aware of), but I noticed that it's now increased the file size by a factor of eight.
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- Secondly, is there a reason why some Bible pages (not just on the pages we've worked on but others) have very large image thumbnails but others are smaller? Do you know if anyone has ever talked about making a standard template for Bible pages?
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- You're welcome. About Image:Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1998).png, I think it turned out to be a bad idea. I will rework it and file Image:Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1998).png for deletion.
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- I'm pretty sure there is a template for articles on Bible. See Template:Bible translation infobox. This template has parameter. It's not that complicated. See the template's talk page for information about how it works.
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- You may also want to join WikiProject Bible (WP:BIBLE) to discuss your thoughts on Biblical articles. I might join. You can express your ideas and draw this issue under light in a larger WikiProject, WikiProject Christianity.
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- Take this into consideration. —Black and WhiteUSERTALKCONTRIBS 02:11, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] TeX vs HTML
Hi. Just a note. Per the math style manual, HTML formulas are acceptable, and even may be preferrable if LaTEX formulas end up as PNG images inline. So while it is good that you TEXified slope, it may not be a good idea to spend a lot of time of converting existing math articles to LaTeX, not until MathML is adopted anyway. Just thought I would let you know. :) You can reply here if you have comments. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 22:07, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you for the comment. I replaced the formula with TEX because it would have then looked uniform. I thought that some TEX here and some HTML there would look disorganized; so, I made them all into TEX as organized and best as possible. —Black and WhiteUSERTALKCONTRIBS 22:21, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
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- So you are fine with a black/white duality, but not with a TEX/HTML duality. :) Thank you for your explanation. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 23:59, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
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- In essence, yes. Thanks for checking. —Black and White (TALKCONTRIBS) 02:56, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] United States or United States of America
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Please look at MSN Encarta and Britannica before using the word "encyclopedic" so carelessly. Both of them call their article "United States," because they follow the same policy as Wikipedia—they use the most common name of something for the article name. Also, please read the official text of the U.S. Constitution [1]; it uses United States about 50 times to refer to the United States of America. --Coolcaesar 03:42, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, looking back to the policy, I was going to consider to change my vote. However, next time, please leave this comment on the page the vote takes place, so that it may benefit other voters. —Black and White (TALKCONTRIBS) 01:39, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image Tagging for Image:JPEG artifacts in Image-Dubrovnik edit.jpg.jpg
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- This is the reason that I dislike bots. Actually, the source can be found in its description page as deriving from another image from Wikipedia, which has a public domain license. It was used to point out the JPEG artifacts in a proposed featured picture candidate. —Black and White (TALKCONTRIBS) 14:27, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing up the SVG trouble I had, which I posted on the Village Pump. But, now I have another one: Image:Times New Roman versus Georgia.svg. The basic idea is to have a Times New Roman alphabet over a Georgia alphabet. (See Image:TNR-Georgia.png.) This time, the Georgia alphabet won't appear and the Times New Roman is covered in black as last time. Maybe, I'm saving the file wrong. Do you save it in "Inkscape SVG" or "Plain SVG"? Thank you. —Black and White (TALKCONTRIBS) 21:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
- I have had a long play with this and come up with something that works. You might want to adjust the final size of the Georgia font to get the two fonts to line up exactly.
- I am not entirely happy with my solution, because I do not know why the new version is working and the old wasn't. The original did have a rectangle object in the XML which seemed to cover all the text. I removed this in the XML editor but it still didn't work. I also noted that the Georgia text was actually two parts (the letter "a" and the rest of the text); changing this made no difference. In the end I removed all your original text and put new text in. This seemed to fix it. The only thing I can see is that the Inkscape said the original text was "linked flowed text" whilst the new text is just "text". I do not know what the difference is.
- There are a couple of other things I discovered:
- Whilst inkscape displayed the original correctly neither Wikipeida (which seems to convert it to PNG), Internet Explorer (opening the file directly from my local disk) or GIMP (which converts it to a bitmap) seemed to be able to display it correctly. Suggesting Inkscape might be the culprit (or at least doing something fancy not supported elsewhere).
- The new version looks about right in Wikipedia (with both fonts being the same length). However, in Inkscape the line of Georgia text is distinctly longer. This time the problem looks to be Wikipedia as opening the file directly in IE or GLIPS Graffiti Editor both produce exactly what Inkscape shows.
- As Wikipedia seems to be rendering the images to PNG I will try and see if the render engine is available to download. This will at least avoid the need to keep uploading the files to Wikipedia to see if they work.
- Finally it doesn't seem to matter whether you use Inkscape SVG or Plain SVG --MarkS (talk) 19:55, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- Have had a quick look round and text in SVG does seem to be a problem. Batik seems to offer a fairly full SVG implementation and refuses to open the original SVG images because of the flow element. I can't find what Wikipedia is using to convert the images but Batik is mentioned as a possible method to convert from SVG to PNG (which is what Wikipdia seems to do). Looking a W3C there is version 1.1 of SVG which doesn't mention Flowing text. Version 1.2 (which is still draft) does have flowing text. My best guess is that Inkscape has implemented the draft version 1.2 but most other packages haven't. The trick seems to be to draw text in Inkscape either by just clicking where you want the tick (rather than streching out a text box) or drawing the text and selecting Text-Unflow from the menus. Then test it in Batik. --MarkS (talk) 20:34, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
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- Thank you very much. I should start to check the XML before I upload it. —Black and White (TALKCONTRIBS) 20:10, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Inspirational Music Wiki
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[edit] From Dan!
Whoa, Alvin, is that you, man? It's Dan from RWB (If you haven't forgotten heat3000). How ya' been? -Heat3000
- Hey, Dan. Wattup! I kinda moved in a hurry so... How's high school? Give me your AIM sn. Also, say hi to Philip Gaylan for me.
Alvin ;-)
- —Black and White (TALKCONTRIBS) 01:23, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
