Wikipedia talk:How to create graphs for Wikipedia articles

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[edit] Gnuplot??

In the part about Gnuplot, it suggests to create postscript files and then to convert them to png. The output is very nice, but according to the guidelines of Wikipedia it should be better to use SVG for plots: this way we get the highest quality at the minimum space.

Should we change the article according to that?? (it is enough to put "set terminal svg" at the beginning of the gnuplot script!) Alessio Damato 12:07, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

I've updated it, but it needs work. The article was written before SVG was supported.
No, it's not as simple as setting the terminal to SVG, as the default output is quite inferior. Lots of tweaks need to be made. I am constantly trying to figure out the best settings. Image:sinc function (normalized).svg is the best I have come up with so far. — Omegatron 04:34, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] m:EasyTimeline

This page is useful. Maybe also worth mentioning that if the graph is a relatively simple bar graph, it can be created by EasyTimeline, which is fun, although the learning curve is a bit steep. (The easiest way to create a new one is to adapt an existing one.) pfctdayelise (translate?) 14:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

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