User talk:Tintazul

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Tintazul, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Census Data, and the Mzunduzi

Hi there. Thanks for the census data. My idea for making it language agnostic was to have a configuration file (probably csv, to be consistent), containing labels for the fields, translated into different languages (with a "key field" being the international language code). I could then allow the user to pass the language code as a command line parameter, and it would produce templates for that language (and maybe even connect automatically to that language's wikipedia). Anyway, just ideas I've been bouncing around, still need to code them. Another thing: I think some of the municipalities in the Excel file are District, but no clear indication (except maybe differences in the format of the code) is there to distinguish them... I'd have to check a few specific instances, though.

I am currently in the Cape, though I was born and grew up in pmb. My user page is a little out of date, as my final move to the cape has only been completely finalised in the last half year or so. On the topic of the Msunduzi, though: I was recently in pmb, and took a fairly pretty picture of the weir at Camp's Drift. In the process of uploading it, I gave in to the temptation to improve the Msunduzi River article, so it's fairly fresh in my mind. Have you guys (A Rocha) encountered the group DUCT? They're also a charity organisation, but established specifically to conserve the Msunduzi. If not, they look like good collaborators. It's a small world... -Kieran 22:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi again. I started looking at the data this weekend, and came to the realisation that a fairly large number (maybe a quarter) of the municipalities changed names between 2002 and now. When I get around to it, I'll look into using the conversion data provided by Stats SA. -Kieran 14:38, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Image:Katse dam intake tower.jpg

I've uploaded the image to the Wikicommons here. Enjoy. Beest 19:36, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SA municipality maps

I'll get working on the rest of the maps this evening. Most of the numbers on your table seem right - 6 metros, 46 districts, 231 locals match my totals. However, your DMA count is a bit off. There's a DMA (ECDMA13) in Chris Hani district in the Eastern Cape you don't have listed. You also list DMAs in Vhembe district, Limpopo; Nkangala district, Mpumalanga; and Bojanala district, North-West; I don't see those three in my data. (I'm going based on the boundary data and list of names and codes from the Demarcation Board from here (you have to register to login).)

As for the converters, I haven't really created an ESRI-to-SVG converter; I've hooked up a prewritten ESRI importer and an SVG exporter in Perl, along with some code that knows the format of the Demarcation Board data. A PDF-to-SVG converter is a much more complicated question, because while ESRI is always vector data in quite a simple format, PDFs can contain vector data, bitmap data, text, and so on, so writing a converter is a much bigger project (which is probably beyond my ability to program in a reasonable amount of time). Have you tried http://freesvg.texterity.com/ which seems to be a free service to do PDF-to-SVG? - htonl 16:46, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I've done all the maps for the whole country - please point out to me if any of them are missing. - htonl 14:25, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Actually, it would be pretty easy for me to write a tool to colour a map according to density, based on the code I have written for the locator maps. The boundary data files already contain a field for the area of each municipality, so all I would need would be the population data from the census. - htonl 15:30, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DMAs, provinces etc.

Yes, the pt: DMA page is correct now, according to the data from the Demarcation Board. I'll fix District Management Areas now. Commons:Image:South Africa Districts showing DMAs.png looks right, though; it doesn't have the North-West DMA, as far as I can see. It does show DMAs in Gauteng and Northern Cape on the border with North-West, though. I've done the NCDMA09 map that I missed.

The Eastern Cape enclave in KZN has been eliminated now, along with all the other boundary changes that went through in April 2005. Yes, all the old maps have to be redone. There are Image:South Africa Provinces numbered.png and Image:SA provinces.svg which are correct and can be used as a basis for other maps. I'm afraid I don't have sources for new areas and populations. - htonl 16:54, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maps on Commons

Thanks for the comments! I will start this weekend and will export the maps out to SVG to put on commons... Rarelibra 12:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like a good plan - and thanks for the tips! I am a methodical person, so I will probably go through and ensure each country has an SVG map for the 1st administrative level and 2nd administrative level. If not, I'll create one with the information such as you suggested. We'll see how I get a good start this weekend Rarelibra 16:40, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
OK... I tried uploading an SVG, but the image does not appear. Am I doing something wrong? Can you clue me in as to how to create/upload an SVG and what the best software is to do a conversion from .jpg or .bmp to .svg? Thanks! Rarelibra 17:23, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FlickrLickr account

Have now tried through en.wikipedia - did it get through?--Eloquence* 23:33, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Sabaean letters

Thanks for your help; let me enumerate where there are problems and should be changes. Firstly, the category should be called "Epigraphic South Arabian" or "Monumental South Arabian," as it is not just Sabaean (it was also used by Himyar, Hadramawt, Awsan, Qataban, and Ma'in in Yemen, and D'mt in Ethiopia). I prefer the former name, and would rename the letters to, e.g., "ESA ayin," instead of using the confusing "Himyar" (again, only one of the polities that used this alphabet). It's your choice whether you want to use "ayin" or "ajin," though (the former is English), since Commons is international. I would rename "Himjar ba.PNG" to "Himjar ba2.PNG," however, as this form of the letter is not the common one used (it was a later variant I believe), while the common one was similar to Ge'ez በ (the Ge'ez letter was more blocky before the 17th century), so you could easily make that letter yourself as just a sort of incomplete square. The same goes for "Himjar ra.PNG," which should be an uninterupted cresent (whereas the current image was sometimes used and should be moved to "Himjar ra2.PNG" (or .SVG I guess). If you feel shy making the letters (I currently can't as I don't have access to good image editing and creating software), then you can see them on this website; just click on "Historical view" and scroll down (or search on the page) for "Marib," which will have the letters in Epigraphic South Arabian script from right to left as MRYB (standard B on the far left, standard R second letter from the right). They can also be found here. "Himjar za2.PNG" should be renamed to "ESA Tsa2.SVG" or "ESA Tsappa.SVG" (the latter being a bit of an anachronism, since that's the Ge'ez name for it) to avoid confusion (it's not really a "z" it's transliterated for Arabic as ḍ and in the closer Ge'ez language as ṣ́). There's some more letters where renaming is needed, so I'm going to split my comment into two responses (the second will be later tonight). Again, thanks for your help; I know this is a lot to swallow! — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 18:27, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vectorizing Gothic letters

well, I recognize that instead of just complaining, I should attempt to do better. Now I remember I used to do vectorization based on bitmap images with some tool, I'll have to look up its name, meaning, you'll simply have to feed it our png images and it will come up with vectorizations. I'll try to do that. If we feature images of Gothic letters, they should, for the sake of encyclopedicity, really look like those of the Codex Argenteus. Of course it is possible to speculate how the letters might have looked in other hands, but that won't do for their presentation, for that we just have to stick to the actually attested corpus. regards, dab (ᛏ) 13:58, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Response - SVG files of polyhedral nets

Hi Tintazul - In response to User talk:AndrewKepert#SVGs after your PNGs the original .png files weren't mine. Talk to User:Cyp, as he wrote Image:Makepolys.c. - Andrew Kepert 08:26, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SVG version of Kepler-Poinsot solids in czech

Thank you for your offer to create an SVG version of Kepler-Poinsot solids.png in czech. You were right, there are mistakes in the current version. The correct texts are:

  • Headline: Kepler-Poinsotova tělesa
  • First picture: Malý hvězdicovitý dvanáctistěn Stěna: Pentagram
  • Second picture: Velký hvězdicovitý dvanáctistěn Stěna: Pentagram
  • Third picture: Velký dvacetistěn Stěna: Trojúhelník
  • Fourth picture: Velký dvanáctistěn Stěna: Pětiúhelník

Glivi 13:17, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Americas

Oi Tintazul, I just saw your post on the Americas page from a few months ago & I just wanted to say it's one of the most rational arguments I've seen on Wikipedia in a long time. It's not good to tell a native speaker her language usage is wrong. Nunca corrigiria as palavras dum falante nativo de português ou espanhol e à mesma vez espero que a gente que fala essas línguas não me corrija. Anyway, thanks for being sane. It's a nice change on Wikipedia. caz | speak 03:28, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] my page won't show up

Now, you can see it clicking ss:Umbuso weSwatini. I don't Know what the problem was, but you figure as first contributor in its history at 15:05, 12 November 2005, Regards.--Jatrobat 19:04, 2 June 2007 (UTC)