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Minor changes on the map at "Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights"

On the map at the article Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - this map: [1] - El Salvador, Gabon and Macedonia (The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) must be dark green, to update the map (these countries have become parties to the Convention).

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Thanks. 2A02:2F0A:506F:FFFF:0:0:BC19:A0C0 (talk) 13:31, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

And Poland must be added too, it has now ratified - on 25 Apr 2014. It must be dark green on the map.[3] 2A02:2F0A:506F:FFFF:0:0:BC1B:44A0 (talk) 12:50, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Both  Done. Maproom (talk) 14:06, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Romansh_language

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Article(s): Romansh_language

Request:

English version, please... -- Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 13:06, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

 Done Maproom (talk) 10:22, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Córdoba

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  Partly translated, all text is now text, and all groups and layers named for better organisation. Someone else can complete the translation!

Article(s): Córdoba

Request:

English version please... -- Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 12:41, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

Like the SVG map of Ireland above, this image does not contain any text, what you see as text is just graphics. So the easiest way to make an English version would be to convert it to a bitmap, delete the "text", including where it overlies rivers, borders, etc., patch up the damaged rivers etc., and then add the English. It will be very difficult. Maproom (talk) 13:27, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Seems like a very awkward way of doing things, especially when it's easy to delete the existing text paths and replace them with raw text. I even went to the trouble of naming every path and organising all the different groups. It should be simple for someone with better language and history skills than I to complete the translation. -- A very naughty Boy!

I have translated the city names. Maproom (talk) 14:41, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Caucasus

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Article(s): Caucasus

Request:

English version please... -- Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 11:47, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

This is much easier to handle than the Córdoba SVG above. It actually contains the text as text so it can easily be edited, e.g. the name "KHUNDZIA" is created by

<tspan
         sodipodi:role="line"
         id="tspan7013"
         x="680.28271"
         y="353.33661">KHUNDZIA</tspan>

So if you someone can give a list of what needs translating, and to what, I or another editor will do it. Maproom (talk) 13:35, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

 Done Maproom (talk) 16:08, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

I see that I missed the river "Euphrat". I'll put that right within a few days. Maproom (talk) 06:49, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

And other things are wrong - Wikipedia uses a wider font than my home computer. I'll try to deal with that too. Maproom (talk) 07:37, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

I have fixed the font width and the "Euphrat". Maproom (talk) 20:31, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

That's because you are using the Futura font and Wikimedia doesn't support that font (it's not that common on Windows machines either, so most people won't be able to see it the way you intend). The renderer replaces all (English) sans-serif fonts with Liberation Sans (a freeware, open source font that is freely available on the net) so you will have much better control over text placing if you use that font, complete with pixel sizes rather than point sizes, eg "12px" rather than "12pt". FYI, Wikimedia uses Liberation Serif for serif fonts such as Times New Roman. Deja Vu Sans is also another free alternative used by Wikimedia. By the way, your file isn't a true SVG as it has a dirty great 4.5Mb PNG encapsulated in it with the text as an SVG overlay. That isn't an ideal way of using SVG and is classed as a "BadSVG" on Commons.--207.207.22.67 (talk) 10:07, 20 October 2014 (UTC)