File talk:Canada provinces evolution.gif

Too fast, unusable

This presentation is going way too fast for me to be able to follow... Animated GIF is a very bad choice, something where users can go to the next slide whenever they want would be better. An AJAX slideshow, or maybe PDF now that it's an open format. Or Flash? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rklz (talk • contribs) 01:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, I came here to say the same thing. zaiken 15:22, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

You've got Labrador wrong. It was just a thin sliver along the coast until the newfies joined confederation and they were given a big slice of northern quebec —Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.20.38.129 (talk) 19:31, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Canadian National Vimy Memorial

Very cool. Would have bit a touch more awesome if you drew a little box with an arrow pointing to Europe for 5 December 1922 to mark the Vimy Memorial dedication. Deet (talk) 23:50, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Actually, this is only a pertetual grant of use by Canada, which means that France will not exercize its right of taxes, but still assumes a mission of protection on that area (but France is commissioned to ask for permission to Canada before sending there the police, if investigations are needed), and that France will not enforce the display of the French flag there (the Canadian flag is permanently flying there).

Canada uses this right actively and frequently seeks for cooperation with local veterans organizations and associations, and with the French government (for French military representants) which are regularly invited for common celebrations. And Canada can also invite any other nations that it wishes for these celebrations.

The terms of the perpetual concession means that Canada alone (or any successor state(s) recognized by France, if ever Canada is split or changes its status) can use this right, but that it cannot be regranted to other nations or international organization without prior permission.

The terms also mean that the Canadian organization managing the memorial can operate under the Canadian law.

Canada can also decide to reincorporate the rests of the bodies on its national soil at any time, without asking for permission.

This is a contract without defined termination date.

If Canada ever decides to abandon its right on this memorial, it will automatically return to France (which also offered to provide the protection of this site, and also to provide services for organizing military ceremonies, or paying for the care or restauration works of the monuments and graves).

This case is similar in other international memorials granted to other foreign countries (notably US, UK) outside of their recognized international borders (including France for its own memorials in the former USSR, now in Russia, or in Germany).

Such cases are regulated by very respected international treaties (including in former colonies, such as the US memorials in Indonesia, now independant from the Netherlands), deposited at the United Nations.

verdy_p (talk) 14:41, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

The pre-confederation boundaries of BC are incorrect -yesbye

Needs cleanup

Still too fast, and it needs to be cleaned up. 69.137.130.101 (talk) 18:42, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually, the animation no longer displays at all, I just see a single frame, because the MediaWiki thumbnail renderer does not render more than just the first frame on animated GIF images. probably because the image was edited with a tool that removed all extra frames, before it was imported on Commons. This "cleanup" means that the interest of this image was lost. Where are the missing frames ? I can no longer access to the previous image versions that were on English Wikipedia.... -- verdy_p (talk) 13:48, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Animations should be reserved only to 3D objects (viewed from a progressively varying angle, or because they are naturally mobile, such as a running engine), or for minor effects like different lighting conditions on the same object, or a natural movement of objects. The frames are completely unrelated, and it will be better to have separate images.

Large images (more than 800x600 px) can't be rendered by default, because their size will be adjusted (and rendered as a single static PNG frame) on the image description page.

To see the animation, you have to click twice the image rendered on any Wiki, the first for getting the image descriptrion, and the second to disply the image alone in its original format. This makes the animated large images extremely difficult to use in an article, when it should be possible to display the various frames separately.

• Is there a parameter for MediaWiki thumbnails, that allows specifying the frame number or frame timestamp to render ?
• Can the description page for images give information about the number of frames in an image and the duration of a single animation loop, and display an additional time progress bar and play button (when there are multiple frames in GIF or PNG images), just like with videos that can be moved forward/backward, and paused/resumed ?
• Can we have an image rendered with a "|thumbnail|" parameter (which causes it to be rendered in a positioned block with a visible description text), also display such progress bar and pause/play button, when there's no timestamp or frame number specified in parameters ?
• Can we have a speed reduction factor for the timestamps stored in animated images ? Could there be some GUI buttons or slider to adjust this speed ?

verdy_p (talk) 14:11, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Error in James Bay

Akimiski Island is attributed to Ontario, but is part of Nunavut.Tdls (talk) 11:28, 3 June 2013 (UTC)