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Location of Three Gorges Dam

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Article(s): Three Gorges Dam

Request:

Hi, the lead map in the Infobox at Three Gorges Dam is presently completely useless for indicating where the dam is located. It shows the boundaries of an internal region of China that will be unrecognisable to 99% of English Wikipedia readers. It contains no indication of scale and no clue of where this region is located relative to the country as a whole. (This problem is widespread within Wikipedia. Almost all these "location within local administrative area" maps are useless as lead images.) Would it be possible for someone to create a map that shows the location within a recognisable context, either of China as a whole, or at least the eastern part showing some coastline and well-known cities? Thanks! 109.147.188.227 (talk) 13:58, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

There is a better (though not ideal) map further down the article. Would it be an improvement to move the better map up into the info box, and get rid of the map that is currently there? Maproom (talk) 14:26, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

I don't know how to do that ... when I change the map file name I get a bunch of errors that I don't understand. However, when I make the map the size that it would be in the Infobox it becomes illegible, so it wouldn't work anyway. 109.147.188.227 (talk) 20:29, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Agreed — You can change the location_* fields under

{{Infobox dam

to

| location_map         = China (equirectangular)
| location_map_size    = 200px
| location_map_caption = Location in China

For a shaded elevation map, use

| location_map         = China
| location_map_size    = 200px
| location_map_caption = Location in China

I would have done it, but thought I should get a second opinion. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 13:18, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I changed it. It's much better now. I didn't realise how it worked. 86.160.86.103 (talk) 03:36, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa

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Article(s): Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa

Request:Could someone convert this jpg map into an svg?. The areas and the symbols are evolving quite rapidly and it would be much easier to do it in svg. Also it is a file used in several language versions. Regards --Basquetteur (talk) 08:32, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

You mean like this one: File:2014 ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.svg? --209.99.2.45 (talk) 19:14, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

The image I propose contains the number and location of hospitals, laboratories and transit centers and also the status of regions in the three countries (active, not active,new). The two images are therefore different. The second image reflects essentially the number of cases and deaths per country. This second image is already in svg and can therefore be easily updated (and also translated into several languages, I have done it for Spanish), the first one not. Hopefully the number of new active regions, the number of active regions will disappear in the near future, but so far that does not look to be the case. Regards --Basquetteur (talk) 13:36, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Try the above and mark as done if satisfied. -- Veggies (talk) 12:06, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I think it is wonderful, very beautifully done. I am going to use it to make a Spanish translation, and possibly French. I hope others might translate it in other languages in West Africa. I do not know about the original version in jpg that RobiH is updating very frequently --Basquetteur (talk) 08:20, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

 Done