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Contents 1 Conversion to SVG 2 Some of my conversions 3 To do 3.1 Sudoku 3.2 Chemistry 3.3 Diagrams 3.4 Drawings 3.5 My own work 3.6 Miscellaneous

[edit] Conversion to SVG

See also: Commons Transition to SVG

The visual superiority of vector graphics over rasters is clear — But, more importantly, vectors are essential to the wiki process.

WikiMedia projects are, above all, editable by anyone; the nature of a raster is contrary to this aim. Most of the images on Wikipedia, despite their imperfections, have never been significantly altered since their initial upload. This is because it is difficult to modify many graphics once they have been rendered. The text cannot be altered. Anything behind other layers is lost.

With SVG, adjustments are made very easily. However, it is not yet quite as trivial as article editing, since it requires having software, downloading a file, and uploading it again. MediaWiki has no SVG preview, so any rendering problems are unknown until the upload has completed. My hope is that eventually, MediaWiki will have an in-browser SVG-editing applet, so that Wikipedia's Image namespace will finally live up to the "anyone can edit" claim. Until then, I continue my own conversion efforts, hopefully encouraging SVG's development.

[edit] Some of my conversions

Telecom-icon.jpg	Praising-hands.png	News.png	Broom icon.png
Bridgedrawing.png	Musical+notes.png	Feather.jpg	Nuvola apps kmplot.png
Golfball.jpg	Curlingstub.PNG	Rubiks cube.jpg	Aeroclipart.JPG
USDA organic seal.jpg	Wappenwiehl.png	Esperanza.png	Featured article candidate .png
Oceanic-continental convergence Fig21oceancont.gif	Metal type.png	Parallax Example.png	Platform Side2e.JPG
Geneva drive.png	Encoder Example.svg	Simple pendulum.jpg	Inclusion-exclusion.png
Van Allen radiation belt.png	Space elevator structural diagram.png	Water molecule.png

[edit] To do

• Category:Images that should use vector graphics
• CPU cache
• Atropisomer
• Rectifier
• Template:Table Greekletters

[edit] Sudoku

This collection is a currently unfinished project to vectorize all images in Sudoku

Sudoku-by-L2G-20050714.gif	Cross-hatching.gif	Cross-hatching.gif	Sudoku2.gif
Suduko Dots.gif	Nonominosudoku.JPG	Sudoku-nrc.jpg

[edit] Chemistry

• D-fructose.png
• Desloratadine.png
• Loratadine.png
• Ethylene2.png
• 1,2-dichloroethane.png
• Chlorophyll structure.png
• Chlorophyll c.png
• Oxycodone.png
• Paracetamol-skeletal.png

[edit] Diagrams

• Plucking LMB.png
• Nucleic acid.png
• VenusTransitVermeer.png
• Email Authentication 01a.png
• Email Authentication 02a.png
• Email Authentication 03d.png
• How e-mail works.png
• Binary phase diagram.PNG
• Geoz wb en.jpg
• Quadrilateral hierarchy.png
• Interior Geneva drive.png
• Relatives Chart.jpg

[edit] Drawings

• Fair use icon - Comics.png
• Nitrogen Cycle.jpg
• Carbon cycle-cute diagram.jpeg
• Earth-crust-cutaway-english.png
• Continental-continental convergence Fig21contcont.gif
• Oceanic-oceanic convergence Fig21oceanocean.gif
• Anatomical-directions-kangaroo.jpg
• Universe expansion.png
• Holdem Table.png
• Example Hold'em.png

[edit] My own work

• Bucket sort 1.png (CS)
• Bucket sort 2.png (CS)

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Bluedog32.jpg
• Bluedogcanada.jpg
• A TransGender-Symbol Plain3.png
• Wappenwiehl.png
• 4th Armored Division.patch.jpg
• Quadrilateral.png (break up?)
• MitreSmall.jpg
• HK-bauhinia.png
• DentistryLogo.png
• Crystal kchart.png