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WELCOME TO THE GRAPHICS VILLAGE PUMP!

This Graphics village pump aims to be technical support forum for all the local Labs, graphists (graphic artists), and volunteers interested in graphic works, and is a page where graphists and users from all the Labs can talk about graphics, tutorials, graphic software, help to build new Graphic Labs, etc. Also for exchanging opinions, ideas, protocols, and ways of improvement.

See also: Graphics abilities page | Graphic Tool | Project Insignia | Stroke Order Project | Current requests/discussions

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Starting line charts

Hi! I would like to know how to start line charts in Commons that are also easy to update. I've reviewed Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files and Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files, but I'm not sure if I've found an adequate resource.

In short, I would like to convert data from a table and making it more accesible than a screenshot from Microsoft Excel, for example. Many thanks in advance. NoonIcarus (talk) 11:55, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Concept of my spreadsheets

One can export charts from Microsoft Excel into formats such as PNG (acceptable in Commons) and SVG (preferred in Commons). Separately, I've designed a set of Excel spreadsheets that automatically generate SVG charts, a shortcoming of which being that they're not as friendly as commercial products and they're text-only (no cursor drag-and-drop, etc). Details are at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG. Other users will undoubtedly have useful suggestions. RCraig09 (talk) 18:13, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

@RCraig09: Just reading this, thank you so much! I will definitely take a look at it. Best wishes, --NoonIcarus (talk) 01:57, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

SVG text with tspan tags is misplaced

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T97233

All text elements should be centered.

All text elements in the image shown on the right should be centered. But this fails, when there are tspan tags. (So formulas with an exponent can not be centered.) This bug seems to be specific to Commons. Compare question on Stackoverflow. Watchduck (quack) 20:53, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Looks like the old text-chunk bug that WMF reintroduced in April 2023 when it switched from (IIRC) a three-year old version of rsvg to a five-year old version of rsvg. There's a Phabricator ticket and a very recent community poll to fix it. I'm headed out the door now. Glrx (talk) 15:43, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

New 404 file - advice?

I found an image with a 404 error in place of original file. Interestingly, the bug causing 404's was closed in 2014, but this image is dated 2018.

• Is it a new Mediawiki bug to be filed?
• What to do with the file?
  • Speedy delete as broken, unused, uncategorized
  • Keep as harmless
• What to do with uploader?
  • Ignore
  • Leave a talk page message (the user is inactive since 2018)
  • Try to contact via VRT, maybe?

So, any advice on how to proceed? - Gabuxae (talk) 17:57, 21 April 2024 (UTC)