Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Illustration taskforce

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Engine Moving Parts, 2004, Blender, GNU | Author: User:Wapcaplet Back in 2003 a user created a WikiProject with the simple purpose of enhancing the presence of various forms of visual illustration on Wikipedia. Some people thought the wikiproject was unimportant except some few Wikipedians interested whom made contact for the last time in the discussion page. It was User:Moonriddengirl who in April 2009 merged the project and User:Camilo Sanchez who got lost looking for WikiProjects related to illustration.

Given the fast growth of Wikipedia and as encouraged by the project I am including this page with the purpose of coordinating the presence and contributions of users interested in illustrating articles that deserve to be illustrated.

As a part of the WikiProject Images and Media, this task force will have to abide to the current guidelines of the parent project.

Although Wikipedia already has a an Illustration workshop located at the graphic lab the goal of this page is to make a contributor driven task force that under the current guidelines of Wikipedia can serve as a support area for users interested in contributing with illustration to articles they are interested in working on. Because of the nature of illustration (time consuming labor) it is important to maintain a sense of flexible participation.

About contributions
It is important for Users that want to contribute with illustrations to be aware of the following:
 * Wikipedia has a policy on illustration that basically encourages users to contribute as long as their illustrations do not include Original Research.
 * Illustrations must have an encyclopedic nature. Therefore the concept of illustration in an article is used as it was meant to be and that is to enlighten readers by making concepts graphically more clear.
 * Graphic contributions must not violate the current copyright and fair use guidelines. If your contribution infringes copyright it will likely be deleted.
 * Most but not all graphic contributions can be added through Wikimedia Commons. At the present time Wikimedia Commons do not allow fair use contributions so they have to be added in every specific Wikipedia.

A user interested in contributing with an illustration ideally should want to make his/her contribution available to the sister projects. So the best way to do so is by uploading their contributions via Wikimedia Commons. By uploading material in this project it becomes available to the Wikipedias in other languages.

Wikipedia encourages the use of Scalable Vector Graphics for the depiction of diagramas and illustration. The goal of this page is in particular to address the community of users with some level of knowledge of this kind of Vector graphics.

List of Users
Please add yourself to the list and give a brief outline of what you might be interested in illustrating and the kind of software or medium you use.

How you can help

 * Find articles that would benefit from some form of illustration. This includes determining the form of illustration that would be most beneficial to the article.
 * For instructions on requesting new images, see Requested pictures.
 * For more information on this subject, see Choosing appropriate illustrations.
 * Create new images. Photographers or users with image-creation talent can respond to user requests here and here. Please ensure that your images conform to Wikipedia's image use policy and quality guidelines before uploading them. Also, consider uploading free-use images to Wikimedia Commons so that they may be used across all Wikimedia projects.
 * For instructions on uploading images, see Preparing images for upload and Uploading images.
 * Improve currently existing images. This includes image touch-up as well as image re-creation (e.g. conversion to the SVG format).
 * For a list of images needing cleanup, see Category:Image files for cleanup.
 * For a list of images needing miscellaneous attention, see Pictures needing attention.
 * For more information on image cleanup, see Images for cleanup.

Related projects

 * WikiProject Maps
 * WikiProject Photography
 * WikiProject Free images
 * Graphic Lab
 * Graphic Lab/Images to improve - Can request new graphics, too.
 * Philip Greenspun illustration project. Request creation/improvement of illustrations.

Catch-all

 * Help:Contents/Images and media
 * c:Commons:First steps
 * Category:Wikipedia image help
 * Commons:Category:Charts. See resource section.

Policy and guidelines

 * Image use policy
 * Image description page
 * Alternate text for images
 * Captions

Maintenance

 * Requested pictures and Commons:Category:Picture requests
 * Fulfilled picture requests
 * Public domain image resources
 * Images with missing articles
 * Special:Unusedimages
 * Image recreation requests
 * Images for cleanup
 * Popular articles lacking an image
 * User:BOTijo/Images for biographies

How-to

 * Picture tutorial
 * Graphics tutorials
 * How to improve image quality
 * How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
 * How to keep image file sizes as small as possible

Templates

 * - Annotate illustrations, maps, and images and create linked legends, with numbers or colours.
 * - Hide the reverse aspect image or illustration of an object, showing the front image, of a pair of images.

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