On Apr 21, 2014 9:21 PM, "Lars Aronsson" <l...@aronsson.se> wrote: > > A friend of mine, noting that Wikipedia uses SVG images > for diagrams, asked if it also had some written guidelines > for how to write the SVG source code, in particular to > express measurement values in the original units rather > than on a pixel scale. He had found some SVG diagram that > made a curve from 140 pixels to 190 pixels, rather than > from 7 million to 9.5 million inhabitants, which was the > unit that the y axis displayed. (Or something like that.) > > I said "probably not, your thinking is likely 5 years > ahead of the Wikipedia community". > > As this all happened in April 2009, he came back yesterday > to ask where we are now. > > Do we have any guidelines for how to hand-write the > source code of SVG diagrams? Should we? > > Maybe this is related to Wikidata? > > > -- > Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Really this seems like the domain of commons to set "standards" for svg writing. I think this should be brought up over there --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l