Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Graphics

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[edit] Request template proposal

Wikipedia pages include text, graphics, and audio. Text is covered by official policies. Graphics is the pictorial information displayed by a computer screen and audio relates to the reproduction of sound. WikiProject templates may contain graphics request parameters. In addition, requests for graphics and audio may be made by one of four request templates.

  • Template:Reqphotographics - for material which requires some Wikipedian effort needed to create the graphics (Wikipedian photographs)
  • Template:Reqcreategraphics - for material which requires significant Wikipedian effort to create the graphic (animation, drawings, (chemical, engineering), diagrams, equations, line art, maps, paintings, video)
  • Template:Reqacquiregraphics - for material which requires no effort to create the graphics since the graphics already have been created but not yet added to Wikipedia (album covers, book covers, comic pages, emblems (scout), screenshots)
  • Template:Reqcreateaudio - Such as audio samples and article voice recordings.

[edit] Discussion on above request template proposal
  • Are these intended to replace existing templates such as reqphoto and reqimage? If so how would they be replaced (in the template pages and in the articles referencing them)? I feel the distinction between types of requests by effort involved not useful to getting the request addressed, it just adds confusion to readers. I do see however some requests for graphics should be highlighted or separated so that specific project teams can see them; for example maps or diagrams are different from screenshots or photographics. On the other hand all requests for an image (no matter what type) should be listed by the subject they are related to (for example related to a country project). My main concern is the request graphics/image/photo template should be easy for occasional users to put things into a useful category without having to spend too much effort understanding the finer points of such a project as this. -- Traveler100 (talk) 06:36, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
  • My thinking was that once you and I and whoever else joins this discussion come up with a solution to the every growing and somewhat ambiguous, overlaping templates listed atCategory:Image request templates, we could then work to make it happen.
  • Q. Are these intended to replace existing templates such as reqphoto and reqimage? If so how would they be replaced (in the template pages and in the articles referencing them)? -- Traveler100 (talk)
My initial thinking was that WikiProject Graphics would come to an agreement on all the parameters needed for graphics request templates. Then we would create the above four templates using all the parameters needed, such as those used in those templates at Image request templates. Then use Wikipedia:Requested moves to rename all the templates listed at Image request templates to one of four templates. The renaming could be done at Bot requests. GregManninLB (talk) 16:33, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Q. I feel the distinction between types of requests by effort involved not useful to getting the request addressed, it just adds confusion to readers. I do see however some requests for graphics should be highlighted or separated so that specific project teams can see them; for example maps or diagrams are different from screenshots or photographics. -- Traveler100 (talk)
I see your point. Template:ReqMap is so much clearer than Template:ReqCreateGraphics. We probably will keep some of the request templates listed at Image request templates. Also, we might not need some of the above four proposed templates as the same results may be achieved through categorization. GregManninLB (talk) 16:33, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Q. On the other hand all requests for an image (no matter what type) should be listed by the subject they are related to (for example related to a country project). -- Traveler100 (talk)
That can be addressed through the template parameters and the categories those parameters populate. GregManninLB (talk) 16:33, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Q. My main concern is the request graphics/image/photo template should be easy for occasional users to put things into a useful category without having to spend too much effort understanding the finer points of such a project as this.' -- Traveler100 (talk)
That can be addressed through the template parameters and the categories those parameters populate so that there would be no need for the occasional users to understand the finer points of such a project as this. GregManninLB (talk) 16:33, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:reqimage and Template:reqphoto (Moved from here)

  • Change reqimage to be same as reqphoto syntax and functions with following differences:-
  1. Places requests in categories based on naming convention subject articles needing images to match that generated from most project template requests (image-needed=yes).
  2. Additional field type with values such as photo, screenshot, cover, map. This could then also place the request in the categories based on graphic format.
This provides a simply way of making a request for occasional contributors, but is expandable for those familiar with the Wikipedia structure and projects. The main advantage is that there would only be one place for people active in a project to look at current requests. -- Traveler100 (talk) 09:22, 10 May 2008 (UTC)