Wikipedia:Graphic Lab
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Graphic Lab
The Graphics Lab helps improve all graphical content stored on Wikimedia Commons and the English Wikipedia.
Wikigraphists work to improve the quality of images that are proposed to them by the community. This involves work such as extracting key elements from photos, improving the color of images or emphasizing the main subject, 'stitching' multiple images together and often vectorizing images (converting to SVG). We also create new drawings, diagrams and maps when requests are made to do so.
Interested in helping out? Then go to the Images to improve page, and start improving. You can also add your entry to Wikigraphist abilities and yourself to Category:Wikigraphist. Can't draw a thing? You can still help us: We really need people to find images that need improvement and to submit them. Anyone can make requests, even unregistered users.
For examples of work done by the Graphic Lab, see the archives of past work.
Types of work done
 Whitening or cleaning the background |
 Removal of objects and colour improvement |
 Image restoration |
 Vector graphics |
For a better view of the capabilities of the Graphics Workshop, see the archives.
Instructions
Requests for the Graphics Workshop are placed on the images to improve page with explanation of the work requested, following the instructions in the template. A Wikigraphist will sign up for the work, carry out the work, and, after approval, replace the original image with the improved one.
All help is welcome!
Requesting work
To request image work, please go to the images to improve page.
Images to improve : For improvement of images, creation of graphics, etc.
Maintenance
- Project map of the Graphics Lab
- Purge the cache of this page
- Common Graphic Village Pump - to meet other graphist communities
Advice
Check the copyright status of the images you work on! |
Photograph your objects on monochromatic backgrounds if possible; |
Links
(French): Atelier graphique
(German): Bilderwerkstatt
(Spanish): Taller gráfico
(Italian): Laboratorio grafico
(Luxembourgish): Billeratelier
Commons: Graphic Lab
Templates used
- {{Template:Atelier graphique}}, Template for improved images (used on Commons)
- {{User Wikigraphist}}, the userbox for Wikigraphists
- {{Cleanup-image}}, Category:Images for cleanup, categorization of images which need improving
- {{Redraw}}, Category:Images for redraw, categorization of images which need to be redrawn
- {{Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/announcement}}, for any announcements that need to be issued to Wikigraphists.
- Category:Images that should be in SVG format, a category of images that should be vectorized
On other WMF wikis
- Wikimedia Commons, place to share your images with Wikipedia (need to be logged in) ;
- Project:Photographs: house of the Wikiphotographs.
- Wikinews' Wikiphotographs.
Other
- Graphists and other visitors to the Graphic Lab may be interested in the RSS feed of changes to the Images to improve page. You can find it here.
- Those interested in the layout of the GL page should see the last hard-coded version in the archives.
- English presentation of the Graphic Lab - an historical and adversing presentation of the Graphic Labs (In French).
