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Visual comparison of convolution, cross-correlation and autocorrelation.

Hello Cmglee. You seem to have done a lot of work for the world, it's great. I might be wrong however I think I have found an error in your illustration in 'Visual comparison of convolution, cross-correlation and autocorrelation.'.

Based on the definition of cross-correlation in https://en.wikipedia.org/Cross-correlation :

${\displaystyle (f\star g)\ {\stackrel {\mathrm {def} }{=}}\sum _{m=-\infty }^{\infty }f^{*}\ g.}$

${\displaystyle f}$ is filter and ${\displaystyle g}$ is the signal which the filter ${\displaystyle f}$ is applied. As cross-correlation is not commutative (unlike convolution), this interpretation can not be inverted. Therefore I think the symbol f and g in your illustration must be switched. Ttlxjdycj (talk) 13:28, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Please see File_talk:Comparison_convolution_correlation.svg. Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 02:05, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

File:Moon_landing_sites.svg

Hello Cmglee. Great image, but there's a typo to do with Apollo 11 landing date. It landed on 20 July 1969 (not 24th). I noticed due to looking up information about today's news of the death of Neil Armstrong. Bryandongray (talk) 23:41, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Well-spotted, and thanks for bringing it to my attention, Bryandongray. I've fixed the typo and added numbers to indicate chronological order, as on the right. cmɢʟee☎✉ 20:05, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Use of a Photo

Hi Cmglee. I am a freelance photo researcher working on a video for Travel and Leisure magazine about all the new attractions this summer (2012) in London. I would like to use your Wikimedia Commons photo of the outside of the Olympic Aquatics Centre for a short 1-2 second use in this upcoming Travel and Leisure video "London's Coolest Attractions". I will credit you as the author of this photo/Wikimedia Commons. Can you let me know if you have any issue or problems with this use? I can be reached at paula@gillenedits.com, thank you so much for posting this image in Wikimedia Commons. (GillenEdits (talk) 17:28, 12 July 2012 (UTC)) (UTC)

Hi Paula/GillenEdits. Sure, I'd be glad to contribute the photo under Wikimedia Commons' terms. Would you be able to post a link to your finished work here, please? cmɢʟee☎✉ 17:47, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so much, I will post the link to the video as soon as it is live. best regards Paula Gillen — Preceding unsigned comment added by GillenEdits (talk • contribs) 20:10, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Here is the Travel and Leisure video. Will be live for the month of August 2012. http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/londons-cant-miss-sights (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:04, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks, GillenEdits. Nice video! cmɢʟee☎✉ 20:46, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Use of a Photo

Hi Cmglee. I am setting up a magazine, and would like to use a photograph you have added to Misplaced Pages for the cover on an issue. Could you please drop me an e-mail on editor@fenlandfocus.co.uk to discuss? Thanks Kep69 (talk) 19:06, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Cambridge meetup!

Hi Cmglee, this is just to let you know of a proposed Cambridge meetup - suggested dates currently Saturday 18 October or Sunday 19th October. If you're interested, please give an idea of which day might be best for you there - & if you know of anyone else who might like to attend do let them know! (I love the library hours on the user page, btw!) Cheers, Dsp13 (talk) 14:24, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

File:Moon names.jpg

Hello Cmglee. Thank you for fixing image File:Moon names.jpg in January 2010. I have noticed that in that image Mare Fecunditatis is misspelled near the 3 o'clock position. Any chance you could fix it? -- Kheider (talk) 22:17, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

{Autotranslate|1=|base=Please link images/heading}

{Autotranslate|1=|base=Please link images} CategorizationBot (talk) 10:44, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

• Image:KLCC skybridge view.jpg was uncategorized on 18 January 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:44, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Template:Dont overwrite (The above was a template, following is by a human.) Sorry to throw this template at you, you did upload a useful impovement at File:Fukushima I NPP 1975 medium crop.jpg, the only problem is the rotation lost all the image notes and changed the appearance of the thumbnails for existing users. I have moved your version to File:Fukushima I NPP 1975 medium crop rotated labeled.jpg so you may ignore the last part of the template above. -84user (talk) 00:25, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

March 2011

Thank you for your contributions. Please remember to mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Solar System, as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. In addition to not being a MINOR edit, I'm questioning the wisdom of changing formats from JPG to SVG, considering compatibility. — UncleBubba  02:37, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi UncleBubba,

Thanks for your note. My bad for marking it minor; I thought minor is for when no text is changed. Re:

> In addition to not being a MINOR edit, I'm questioning the wisdom of changing formats from JPG to SVG, considering compatibility

I found the labels in the original JPEG too small to view in thumbnail mode though there is plenty of space available.

I've ensured that it renders well on the MediaWiki renderer and several modern browsers. Regardless, most Misplaced Pages readers will see the automatically rendered JPEG instead of the original unless they choose to view it.

Moreover, http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Planets2008.jpg shows that it has been translated to several languages. My initiative lets editors easily translate it into their language without needing to fix the background.

Regards,

Cmglee (talk) 18:42, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

fukushima map

Hello,

can you please tell me the date of the radation measurements in this map?

-- PM3 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.32.150.219 (talk) 00:41, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer. I have added March 15 as date of measurements to the file description. -- PM3 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.32.166.54 (talk) 12:45, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Template:Distance from Sun using EasyTimeline

Hi. I recently came across this template and noticed that Mercury and Eris lead to disambiguation pages. However, try as I might, I could not edit the template successfully so as to disambiguate the links. Perhaps you will better know how to manipulate EasyTimeline to achieve this? It Is Me Here 16:28, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi It Is Me Here. Thanks for pointing it out and trying to fix the links. I've fixed the links using ] and ] as EasyTimeline seems to fail on spaces in links. Please let me know if there are any other improvements to be made. cmɢʟee☺τaʟκ 19:14, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject East Anglia

Would you be interested in WikiProject East Anglia?

If yes, please support us here at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Council/Proposals/East Anglia. Wilbysuffolk talk 13:08, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

I'll tentatively say yes, though I couldn't find out from the proposal page how you'd like supporters to help. I can contribute photographs and illustrations especially of Cambridge and surrounding villages. Please let me know if you'd like me to help in something specific. cmɢʟee☺τaʟκ 18:13, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Any help will be fantastic at the moment though I need lots of helping making Misplaced Pages:WikiProject East Anglia. Thanks for joining. Wilbysuffolk talk 18:20, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

First thing I noticed about Misplaced Pages:WikiProject East Anglia is that the brown background makes the text very hard to read (on Vector skin). Mind if I make it white or brighter? cmɢʟee☺τaʟκ 18:23, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Nope, Fine with me. Wilbysuffolk Talk to me 19:36, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Your East Anglian Newsletter

Welcome to your first newsletter from Misplaced Pages:WikiProject East Anglia.Enjoy!

Hope to make the next newsletter soon,
Thanks for reading,
Wilbysuffolk Talk to me 19:27, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Meow!

Really amazing contributions you have on your user page there! I’m particularly impressed with the way you use diagrams, drawings and other graphical representations to portray interesting and important information. Keep it up!

Timwi (talk) 20:10, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Time pyramid

Great image, really good! Well done. Calistemon (talk) 00:54, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank You's

re: http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Comparison_disk_storage.svg Excellent, deft compact display of layered information! Thanks! 70.254.44.105 (talk) 13:22, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks :) Glad you found it useful! cmɢʟee☺τaʟκ 22:08, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Possible Manhattenhenge pic

Take a look at Talk:Manhattanhenge#Mockup_of_what_you_could_try and let me know what you think Egg Centric 16:20, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

File:Ship measurements comparison.svg

Thanks for File:Ship measurements comparison.svg! Is Q-Max really unlimited draft? Slide 27 of this lists it as 12m draft. Thanks! (update: this says Ras Laffan Port is the limit; this lists 12.5m draft) 165.170.128.66 (talk) 16:01, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I've updated the image (as on the right) and Q-Max#Technical_description. cmɢʟee☺τaʟκ 00:17, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

File: Thin_lens_images.svg

Hello Cmglee,

I believe this image is incorrect: http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Thin_lens_images.svg

The letters on the right side should only be inverted vertically, not horizontally. I could do the calculations, but one way to see it is that if the letters were flipped horizontally it would imply that light from the back of the letter reaches your eye first, which is not the case.

Otherwise, the image is very useful. Keep up the good work!

DaedalusInfinity (talk) 00:59, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Well-spotted and thanks, DaedalusInfinity. I've fixed the SVG. Let me know if you find any other errors. cmɢʟee☺τaʟκ 12:26, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the SVG fix!

I noticed your edit on the SVG source of this file, and I was really impressed. I could tell from your user page that you extensively create/modify pictures on Misplaced Pages, including vector graphics. Glad that you improved mine this time, truly appreciate it.

If you don't mind, could you help me with the other 3 SVG graphics? I'm referring to this, this and this. All those graphics were made manually, meaning I was arranging those hexagons, naming them and trimming coordinates in the source, so that file sizes were kept small. I believe there is a way to create this sort of diagrams less painstakingly, just that I haven't come across it.

Could you advise me on representing by-elections clearly in the diagrams? Should texts be added for that matter? Also, what do you think about these pictures being transferred to Commons, with additional 2 sets of translated versions, in Bahasa Melayu and Chinese? Hytar (talk) 08:56, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words, Hytar; I try my best :)

I would find labels for the by-elections useful, but do get a second opinion. I prefer multiple layers of information in a single diagram but some Wikipedians find mine too cluttered.

I normally upload my images to Commons, though they have stricter policies e.g. on the corporate logos you've made.

I've done similar changes to the 3 images you linked. I must say I really like your idea of using hexagons for equal-area representation and also using more saturated colours with a border to show changes.

Did you use a script or program to generate the SVG? If not, kudos on your great effort! Here are some suggestions to reduce the work:

1. Write a script. I use Perl to generate mine.
2. Use defs blocks and xlink:href to make each hexagon a separate unit which you can place using the transform attribute.
3. "Cheat" by approximating hexagons with squares with corners cut off, so their coordinates are much simpler.

These techniques are in used in this SVG image.

Let me know if you'd like to collaborate on any new SVG visualisations you have in mind.

cmɢʟee☺τaʟκ 12:53, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

>== Re: SVG Check ==

Yes, all sound like good suggestions.

Unfortunately I'm very busy at the moment for various reasons. This means I've worked up a large backlog of "features I'd like to implement" :( (In fairness, this is also because I get new bugs in my inbox most days, and I devote time to fixing them as soon as I know about them.)

If you file a JIRA feature request, then at least your good suggestions won't get lost, even if it takes me a while to get round to doing anything about them (I do apologise for this, I just try to be realistic about these things). To do so, you have to register first (your Misplaced Pages login details won't "just work" unfortunately), then the "New feature request" button is fairly obvious.

Sorry to not be of more use, Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) - Jarry1250  19:02, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

File:Camcentrallib hours.gif listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Camcentrallib hours.gif, has been listed at Misplaced Pages:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. –Drilnoth (T/C) 23:24, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Malaysia history chart

Hey, I just noticed the improvements you made to the Malaysia history, and am dropping this note to say good work. Colouring the columns and making a similar colour coded map was an extremely novel idea, and it works brilliantly. Cheers, Chipmunkdavis (talk) 16:19, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Carpet cleaning

Hey,

I thought it was useful because it gave people a way to find a carpet cleaner (which is really one of the biggest reasons they visited the page). Further, the site is not selling any products.

Cheers,

Pragmatically — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pragmatically (talk • contribs) 01:35, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your speedy reply and clarification, Pragmatically. While I appreciate that you may be trying to be helpful to people who want to clean their carpets, Misplaced Pages is meant to be an encyclopedia, not a how-to guide. I think WikiHow is a much more suitable place for your contribution. Thanks for your understanding! cmɢʟee☺τaʟκ 18:41, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi,

I would assume post people go to the carpet cleaning article to find out how to clean their carpet, no?

Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pragmatically (talk • contribs) 21:23, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

That might be our assumption, but the policy has been decided by the community as documented here. If you wish to challenge it, try discussing this at the Village Pump. cmɢʟee☺τaʟκ 21:40, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Barber's pole

Nice pic! Happy editing. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:52, 12 October 2011 (UTC) David.daileyatsrudotedu (talk) 17:06, 7 April 2015 (UTC) I don't know if anyone would find this useful or not: http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/SVGOpen2008/barberPole.svg

Use of a photo

Hi Cmglee!

I'd like permission to use your photo (http://commons.wikimedia.org/File:Berjaya_Times_Square_theme_park.jpg) for a blog post i'm posting on Theme Parks in Asia. It's a new website so I don't have the URL yet. I'll credit of course and can link to your wikipedia page. Do let me know if you have any concerns at karl.bustamante sambaash.com.

Many thanks!

08:26, 20 October 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.92.72.130 (talk)

Thanks for the note, Karl. Sure, feel free to use it! cmɢʟee'τaʟκ'maιʟ 11:55, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

2nd WikiProject East Anglia Newsletter

This is the second WikiProject East Anglian Newsletter. We have got 1,908 articles with our banner and a bot will be off soon distributing the banner to mainly Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire talk page (Essex has been done) and have now got 13 members. We will soon fully merge with Cambridgeshire project. We need a bit of help assesing pages (about 100 need doing) but other wise we are progressing well.

Thanks for reading,
Wilbysuffolk Talk to me 20:19, 21 October 2011 (UTC) (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
		Thank you for adding so many valuable graphics to Misplaced Pages! Chris (talk) 21:36, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Chris. Let me know if you'd like something illustrated!
cmɢʟee'τaʟκ'maιʟ 17:05, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Edits

Hello, can I ask you to please undo some of the changes in this edit? It looks like it was a revert of my revert (without explanation), and per WP:BRD, these should be discussed before being repeated. The colour coding is fantastic, but you've changed the column titles and repeated alot of changes that I reverted. Also, why have you removed diacritics from names (even in quotations)? This pushes the reader through redirects...

...Although I've just noticed that I've put "Supportiveive" instead of the "supportive" that was agreed upon on the talk page (a mistake). Thanks, Nightw 14:04, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks mate. Appreciate it. Nightw 21:11, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

That's quick; I was going to reply after fixing the page. Sorry about the mess-up, Nightw. I didn't realise my text editor corrupts non-ANSI characters and your changes were lost due to the merge conflict.

I've tried to restore the section to the state before I edited it, except the following:

1. Colour-coding, giving more width to the Further Details column, and removing unused style attributes (my original intentions)
2. Restoring the headings -- I think "Position" and especially "Rec." are not descriptive enough
3. Restoring "Support" and "Oppose" -- I think "Supportive" and "Against" are unnecessarily long
4. Restoring a reference for Bosnia-Herzegovina removed without explanation

Hope that's ok now! cmɢʟee'τaʟκ'maιʟ 21:24, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

After reading the discussion on the Talk page, I've changed Support/Supporting to Supportive and Oppose to Against. cmɢʟee'τaʟκ'maιʟ 21:35, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, looks good. Thanks for taking the time to review. And thanks for editing the table as I consider it an improvement. Regarding the headings, I think a key will probably be added to better explain the table (will do so myself as soon as I get a chance), so don't worry about that for now. I deliberately removed the reference for the Bosnian position because it was attributed to the Israeli government (not appropriate given the context). You were right to add that back since I didn't give an explanation in my edit summary. I've tagged it with an explanation, will remove it again tomorrow if nobody objects. Not a big deal. Thanks again, Nightw 21:43, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks too. I'm done editing the page and shall leave it to you and others to improve it :) Have a good day! cmɢʟee'τaʟκ'maιʟ 21:48, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Transparent Background

Hi Cmglee. You do really nice work. I was wondering if the image found here http://commons.wikimedia.org/File:Ideal_projectile_motion_for_different_angles.svg could be uploaded with a transparent background? Bruhow (talk) 23:12, 8 November 2011 (UTC)Bruhow

Thanks, Bruhow. I've made the background transparent and improved the scale on the ground. Incidentally, could you forward me to a document that explains why it should be transparent? Misplaced Pages:Preparing_images_for_upload does not explain it. I can understand it lets images be used on different backgrounds without unsightly borders, but for graphs (especially colourful ones like this one), wouldn't that make certain parts unreadable? The white background guarantees that this cannot happen. cmɢʟee'τaʟκ'maιʟ 13:05, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

US standard atmosphere

Hi, the current version of the US standard atmosphere is 1976, not 1962. I think it would be better to use the current data for the articles you just added your 1962 image to. Q Science (talk) 06:10, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi Q Science, I'm aware of that, but could not find any suitable graph of all 4 properties to trace. If you have one, or know the vertices of a piecewise-linear function (or quadratic/cubic Bezier curve), please let me know. Nevertheless, since NASA used it for their Centennial of Flight site, it shows at least some acceptance of the 1962 model. cmɢʟee'τaʟκ'maιʟ 15:57, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for good work! And, problem with Sagittarius A* graphic

Hi! Seems like you've done a bunch of really good work here - thanks! I just found what I think is a problem with your (otherwise most excellent) graphic on the star orbits around Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. See the talk page at Sagittarius A*. I didn't want to fool around with your graphic, so I just documented what I think are the errors, and suggested improvements, there. Hope I'm right, and I hope you can fix them (assuming they need fixing) - have a look. thanks - lanephil Lanephil (talk) 21:13, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi Lanephil, thanks for the compliments and feedback. It's really perceptive of you! I've replied to your comments on Talk:Sagittarius_A*#Problem_with_x-axis_scale_in_.22Galactic_centre_orbits.svg.22_graphic.3F. I hope you don't mind my splitting your message into paragraphs for greater readability. cmɢʟee'τaʟκ'maιʟ 18:30, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Tensegrity

What is the simplest structure having ten struts? Kittybrewster ☎ 09:53, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, no idea. As the number of possible structures increases exponentially with the number of struts, it may be unfeasible to get a definitive answer. cmɢʟee'τaʟκ'maιʟ 12:05, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

File:Comparison_satellite_navigation_orbits.svg

I don't know what made you use Mm (Megametre? Megamillimetre?) instead of km (kilometre) in this diagram, but may I ask you to correct it? (Unless I'm missing something.) Thanks! Nageh (talk) 14:22, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

The megametre is a perfectly valid unit in the metric system and is equivalent to 1000 km. I would have used "x000 km" instead, if there had been sufficient space in the diagram. cmɢʟee'τaʟκ'maιʟ 18:35, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Ack. I was being stupid, that's all. I was relating miles with metres (instead of kilometres) for a moment, which made me wonder where the 'M' came from. Thanks for the diagram then! Nageh (talk) 19:09, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Tensegrity graphics

Hi, FYI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Tensegrity#Distracting_animations

Wondered if you might be interested in doing this. Regards, 86.167.19.92 (talk) 18:26, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I've replied on that page.

Orchard Park piccies

Hi. We seem to disagree on the pictures in the Orchard Park article. I've started a discussion at Talk:Orchard Park, Cambridgeshire which I invite you to contribute to. Cheers! Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 22:56, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Ilikeeatingwaffles. I've replied on that page. cmɢʟee☎✉ 13:19, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Image request

Hello once again! I'm not sure if you're interested enough in biology to do this, but would it be possible for you to create a reconstruction of the Cycadeoidea plant? I've listed it at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Palaeontology/Paleoart review, but some entries there have been stale for years. Chris the Paleontologist (talk • contribs) 23:06, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Chris. To be honest, I don't think I've the necessary skills to redraw http://taggart.glg.msu.edu/isb200/cycadl3.gif . How about using one of the existing pictures of fossils at http://commons.wikimedia.org/search/?title=Special%3ASearch&search=Cycadeoidea (like the one on the right) or http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/brochures/fossils/trias.html (dating from 1906, I think the drawing is in public domain), or linking to http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/285729 (I'm not sure what Product License: Standard Royalty Free means). cmɢʟee☎✉ 18:57, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for bothering you with this one; I wasn't aware of the existence of those images. I'll look harder next time. Thanks for pointing them out anyway, though. Chris the Paleontologist (talk • contribs) 20:52, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

No worries — glad to help! cmɢʟee☎✉ 11:25, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Addition of Comparison angular diameter image to Solar eclipse

I find this image redundant for the article. The article already has a chart showing the different apparent sizes of the sun and moon as seen from earth and I think the chart is easier to see what is going on than with your graph which seems to me a bit cluttered with all the circles so close together. In short I don't see how it adds to the article what isn't already there, furthermore I don't think it conveys very well, visually, the apparent sizes. Before I remove it, I figure it would be nice to get your feedback on my criticisms. Thanks. --TimL (talk) 01:33, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, TimL. I understand that there's a chart showing the apparent sizes (I made it!) but I find it very difficult to distinguish the sizes from the thumbnails; I suppose it's below my threshold of just-noticeable difference, whereas I find the image makes it clearer. Would it be less cluttered if only the sun and moon (and not the planets and ISS) are shown? cmɢʟee☎✉ 13:05, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

thanks for the reply. In the chart, the moon seems quite visibly diffrent in size, the sun, not at all. So I partly agree with you about the chart. However, if one looks at the chart they can see the Sun's angular diameter varies very little, thus explaining why they look the same size in the chart. The problem I see with your diagram is all the circles are to thin and too close together to easily tell apart. Perhaps you could "zoom in" on part of the "disk" and create a figure showing just an arc (representing part of the full disk of sun and moon rather than the whole disk) whereby the differences in angular diameter could be "magnified" so to speak, leaving it an exercise for the reader to imagine the whole disk if they would like, which I think would be fine. Thoughts? --TimL (talk) 12:47, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Historic Coventry edit-a-thon at Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry

Historic Coventry Edit-a-thon - You are invited!

The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum is hosting an edit-a-thon on Saturday 31 March 2012. 15 Wikimedians will have to learn more about "historic Coventry". The day will centre upon editing, however and we aim to improve the coverage of Coventry's illustrious history on Wikimedia projects. For more information and to sign up, see the event page. We hope you'll join us! Rock drum Ba-dum 20:54, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Rock drum for the invitation but sadly I can't make this Sat.

Since you and User:HJ Mitchell are active in GLAM, I wonder if you've come across the Horniman Museum which I wholeheartedly recommend, especially due to their idea of comparing the same class of artifact from different cultures. They pride themselves to be a teaching museum, so may be keener than most to open their doors to Wikimedia. Sadly, I don't have a contact there, but their guides seemed quite open to ideas.

On my last visit, I photographed some specimens with skins/shells cleverly sectioned to show how the underlying skeleton relates to the rest of the animal (something I'd not seen before), as in these examples. Because they were behind glass, there were many reflections, and I could not get better angles. I think these are excellent illustrations of assorted animal anatomy, as I've done for turtle shell and bat#Wings. Under GLAM, the museum may briefly open the cabinets for someone to take better pictures.

I should thank both of you for your devotion to GLAM. Not many people would be willing to spend their time and effort organising such events. Keep up the great work!

cmɢʟee☎✉ 17:47, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Comparison highest mountains graphic

Very impressive work on this graphic ]. I just saw your additions of it to the mountain lists. Overall I like it, but it could use some improvements. A couple things that jump out:

The use of the question mark really needs to go. It should be another symbol. The question mark being there makes it seems as though the author or someone is questioning the data or indicating that we are unsure about something.

Since Everest/K2 are members of both the 8000ers and the Seven Summits/Seven Second Summits, it would be nice if there was a more prominent way of indicating this fact on the graphic. Maybe with a unique color code or something just for these two peaks.

Just my own initial thoughts for now. Thnx --RacerX Talk to me 00:36, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Racerx11. I struggled to find symbols I could use. Strangely, non-ASCII characters e.g. † (dagger) failed to display in Firefox. Can you suggest some appropriate ASCII symbols? I thought the symbols were sufficient to show which sets each peak belongs to, and used colours to denote continents. How about if I use increased saturation to indicate the Seven Summits/Seven Second Summits? cmɢʟee☎✉ 12:22, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

How about asterisk * and caret ^ or asterisk * and double **, any of those would be better imo, if they work. I see now that you used the color coding to denote continent. That makes sense so never mind about Everest and K2 with their own color, unless... It occurs to me if you color coded by list, one color for eight-thousanders, one for seven summits and a third for second seven, then it would make sense to have a fourth shade just for Everest and K2 to indicate membership in more than one list. Additionally you could could have different shades for Bass and Messner which would solve the non-ascii symbol problem. --RacerX Talk to me 17:56, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, when I wrote the above, I wasn't considering that you were already using * and ^. I was just now trying to work it all out and come up with a scheme that solves everything. My mind started swimming. The more I look at it, the more I realize with what you were trying to do, what you have now is about the best it could have been. Just thinking out loud now. Could you color code for each list, including for Bass and Messner, or use * and ^ if needed, and then simply state the continents by name in text? Would that work?--RacerX Talk to me 15:08, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

I think have something I would prefer: Use just three colors. One for each list. Then use ^ to denote Messner and * to denote Bass for both of the seven summit lists. Simply enter the continents using text below each mountain name. So for example Mount Townsend would be colored using the seven second summits color and the text would look like:

Mount Townsend*

2209 m

Australia*(asterisk optional here)

(with * denoting Bass list)

As for Everest and K2 belonging to more than one list. Make the triangular peak graphic a two-toned image for those two peaks only. For example, one half of K2's triangle would be colored with the eight-thousander color and the other half colored with the seven second summits color. Follow me? Wouldn't that work or am I overlooking something? --RacerX Talk to me 15:37, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Wow, thanks for putting so much thought into this, RacerX11. I like your 3-colour image idea, except that it might be confusing for Everest and K2 to be half one colour and half another. I could stripe them as in File:Prevailing world religions map.png, but I think I've an idea where it's the labels that are grouped (though requiring Everest and K2 to have repeated labels). Give me about 3 hours to come up with something... cmɢʟee☎✉ 15:47, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Great! My suggestions are mostly intended as food-for-thought or maybe something that would strike you as a good idea to improve on. Will wait to see what you come up with. Take as much time as you need. No one is in a hurry over this. --RacerX Talk to me 16:07, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

What do you think of this? cmɢʟee☎✉ 19:46, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

I like it, very much! The text is much cleaner without too many supscripts. Less potential for confusion. I would be fine with going live with this version. You apparently have a knack for this sort of thing. You have done some great work :) --RacerX Talk to me 20:09, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks for the kind compliment and Barnstar. I couldn't have done it without your recommendations and feedback, RacerX11. Guess this shows the power of collaborative editing of Misplaced Pages :) Let me know if you'd like to work on anything together. Have a good day! cmɢʟee☎✉ 14:30, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Sure, and the next time I see a need for a new or better graphic, I will certainly keep you mind. --RacerX Talk to me 14:52, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

		The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
		In recognition of the fine work you do. RacerX Talk to me 22:46, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Saw one on this page, but if you don't have the alternate version, here you go! --RacerX Talk to me 22:46, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	For your I'm honoured to award you this. A great addition! Qwrk (talk) 14:18, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar

Hi, thanks for the barnstar. My first ever !

Just a note on the sRGB data for the ColorChecker card, there are a couple of people in the external links on that article and from what I can make out they both conclude that the manufacturer's sRGB data isn't particularly accurate.

I wanted to added Bruce Lindbllom's sRGB data to the article but I don't quite know how to justify including his data He has links on quite a few Misplaced Pages articles to do with colorimetry etc. I'd be fairly sure he knows his stuff but I can't quite get my head around citing his data.

Anyway, thanks again for the barnstar.Sun Ladder (talk) 11:41, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome, and thanks for the note, Sun Ladder. I've read some articles by Bruce Lindbloom and he indeed seems quite knowledgeable. In this case, I'm unsure what the best approach is, too. I would open the topic to general debate on the ColorChecker talk page by copying what you wrote above there (I can do that for you if you like). If there's no reply in several days and you feel strongly about it, perhaps you could add his data to the ColorChecker article with a reference? Just a thought... cmɢʟee☎✉ 12:09, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Comparison angular diameter image for Solar eclipse

Hi. Unlike one of the previous commentators, I think this image is a terrific addition to the Solar eclipse article. However ...

The caption stating the maximum and minimum angular diameter of the sun (in actual numerals) cannot be correct because it indicates that the maximum diameter is less than the minimum. I would correct this if I knew how, which I do not.

Furthermore (but less important) the numbers shown do not correspond exactly to what is shown in the table of values within the Solar eclipse article itself, even if they were to be reversed, as apparently they should be. This is a less interesting issue than the reversal, since the discrepancy of the values is small, although I do not know the source of this discrepancy. Paul (talk) 22:19, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

p.s. By the way, you do great work on a variety of images, which have become some of the highlights of Misplaced Pages. Paul (talk) 22:19, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks and well-spotted, Paul. I've fixed the labels as on the right. The values in the graphic were from the How long will we continue to be able to see total eclipses of the Sun? answer at NASA, but there is a mistake: "...the Sun's angular diameter varies from 32.7 minutes of arc when the Earth is at its farthest point in its orbit (aphelion), and 31.6 arc minutes when it is at its closest (perihelion)." It should appear smaller when farther, so the values should be swapped. I've updated the table and noted this mistake. cmɢʟee☎✉ 13:11, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the fix. For a minute there, it appeared that the values in the image caption were still wrong, but in reality I simply needed a judicious dose of "F5" (refresh). And then it was all clarified. Paul (talk) 19:43, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Panamerican Peaks

Thanks for the great graphic. In 2009-2010 I embarked on my adventure of a lifetime called Panamerican Peaks: Cycling between Alaska and Patagonia (Panamerican Highway) and Climbing the highest peaks of every country along the way.

As it turns out, there are 14 countries, and so I wondered whether you could help me create a graphic comparing those 14 Panamerican Peaks with the 7 Summits and 7 Second Summits. (Four of them are identical: Denali, Logan, Ojos, Aconcagua). Below is a list of the country, peak, height data. You can also find info about this project (photos, videos, stories, etc.) on my website panamericanpeaks dot com

Seq     Country Peak    Altitude
1       United States   Denali  6194
2       Canada  Logan   5959
3       Mexico  Orizaba 5636
4       Guatemala       Tajumulco       4220
5       El Salvador     El Pital        2730
6       Honduras        Las Minas       2849
7       Nicaragua       Mogoton 2106
8       Costa Rica      Chirripo        3819
9       Panama  Baru    3475
10      Colombia        Cristobal Colon 5776
11      Ecuador Chimborazo      6267
12      Peru    Huascaran       6768
13      Chile   Ojos del Salado 6893
14      Argentina       Aconcagua       6962

You can also email me directly:

Many thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Thomas Laussermair.

Thanks. I've replaced the Eight-thousanders of File:comparison_of_highest_mountains.svg with your list. If you know the Perl programming language, you can extract the Perl code at the bottom of the SVG file and make your own graphic, too. Congratulations, by the way, on your successful climb! cmɢʟee☎✉ 20:12, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi Cmglee,

Thanks for turning this around so quickly. I see from the svg file that you just had to replace the driver table for your Perl script and some of the color assignments. Pretty nifty script there - have never written Perl myself.

Did you start out with a drawing tool (like Adobe Illustrator), save in .svg and then refine with Perl? Or did you start from scratch with Perl?

On the color assignments, perhaps one could use the green and blue (for North and South American Panamerican Peaks) instead of the yellow. ::Also, the fact that Denali (=McKinley) and Logan are listed multiple times is a bit confusing.

Anyway, I added it to my most recent Blog post at http://visualign.wordpress.com

Thanks again,

Thomas.

Thomas Laussermair

Hi Thomas,

Thanks. I just visualised it on paper and directly wrote the Perl script to plot it. Of course, the design changed quite a bit as I went along.

If you wish to fix the graphic or plot your own mountains, first get a copy of Perl (I recommend ActivePerl) and a Perl tutorial. Knowing how obfuscated Perl can be, I've tried to write it as simply as possible. If all you want to change are the mountains and colour assignments, just edit the string $data_string and hashtable %continents. Each line in $data_string corresponds to one mountain belonging to one of the continents (loosely used to mean "category"). The fields, delimited by "|" are

1. x-coordinate of centre of mountain and label
2. y-coordinate of baseline of label
3. continent code
4. rank in continent
5. height in metres
6. name

They are plotted in the specified order, so earlier ones appear "behind" later ones. The %continents structure should be self-explanatory.

Good luck! cmɢʟee☎✉ 23:19, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank You for the Venn Diagram

Yes, I am a newbie. I just wanted to Thank the author and artist for the following beautiful diagram. I was not sure who is who. What is “Derivative Work”? I have never used “talk” before.

File: Homograph homophone venn diagram.svg

English: This is a Venn diagram showing the relationships between pronunciation, spelling, and meaning of words, for example, homographs, homonyms, homophones, heteronyms, and heterographs.

Date: 2011-12-20 23:45 (UTC) Source: Homograph_homophone_venn_diagram.png Author : Homograph_homophone_venn_diagram.png: Will Heltsley derivative work: Cmglee(talk) ```` End

Hi Pomahony,

Thanks for your kind words.

Your message will be seen quicker if you put it on a user's Discussion page, as opposed to his/her User page. You can think of the Discussion page as a forum for that user, while his/her User page is for him/her to describe himself/herself.

This page explains the legal meaning of "derivative work"; more commonly, it just means that a particular work of art was based on an existing one.

In this case, I created the upper-right graphic based on the bottom-right one by Will Heltsley (according to its summary).

Happy contributing to Misplaced Pages!

cmɢʟee☎✉ 20:33, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi Cmglee, would like to also say thanks for the awesome Venn diagram, and can I suggest changing the example of a homonym to something different, such as seal or bear, as tyre/tire is not a homonym pair for us folks in the UK. Thanks again for illustrating so succinctly one of my favourite families of linguistic terms :).Brocerius (talk) 12:58, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind words, Brocerius. I understand your concern, but could you please start a discussion on Talk:homonym to see what other editor think about this change? I copied tyre/tire from File:Homograph_homophone_venn_diagram.png. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 13:23, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Seven Second Summits map

Hello again. The map you have added at Seven Second Summits has a small issue for me. It indicates Puncak Trikora as the second highest point of Australasia/Oceania/New Guinea, (Messner list). The discussion about Puncak Mandala vs Trikora as the true second highest is at Talk:Seven Second Summits#List may be incorrect. The consensus reached from that discussion was that Mandala is higher and we made made all the changes in all related articles based on the best information from reliable sources we could find. We have also left notes on certain articles explaining that the two peaks are very close in height and some sources may list Trikora as higher and/or being a member of the Messner list. The most recent and accurate data does support Mandala being higher (note however, user:Viewfinder does add that this is "not 100% conclusive").

So alas the map is somewhat contradicting what the article currently states. Possible solutions:

• 1) Edit article to explain or reflect what the map indicates.
• 2) Replace map with one that instead, displays Mandala as #2.
• 3) Simply delete the map.

Thoughts? --RacerX Talk to me 01:34, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Well spotted, Racerx11. I took the image from the French page. I've added a note in the caption with a link to the talk page. Hope that helps! cmɢʟee☎✉ 11:54, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I have replaced the link to the discussion, with an inline citation—a better way to support your note I believe. Thanks! --RacerX Talk to me 03:04, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Gutenberg PhD interactive architecture

See http://www.gutenberg-e.org/kirkbride/chapter1.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.107.37.101 (talk) 21:19, 14 July 2012 (UTC) Since you like architecture, also "Diagramming Architecture", Francis Ching "Form and space in architecture" 81.107.37.101 (talk) 22:01, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Architecture and the Moving Image 1998-2005 (2 dvds): short films selected by François Penz and Andong Lu 81.107.37.101 (talk) 22:07, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Sketches of Frank Gehry 81.107.37.101 (talk) 22:22, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Reply

No, I was not the other commenter on the graph. (Sorry for the delayed response--I'm off Misplaced Pages here lately.) Duoduoduo (talk) 16:14, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Judge institute photos

Do you have any more photos of the Judge Institute, especially close ups? I found out yesterday that poor old John Outram didn't have a wiki page, so have been hastily trying to cobble one together. There's a nice building of his round the back too, if memory serves. Pete.boardman (talk) 20:57, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Pete. Well done in writing up the article. I've uploaded the following photos of the Judge. Hope they are useful! cmɢʟee☎✉ 21:01, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Nice photos, thanks! Pete.boardman (talk) 16:39, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Cambridge University stuff

Deryck C. 21:47, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Image copyright

You might get a more helpful person at Misplaced Pages:Media copyright questions. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:38, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Charles. That looks useful! cmɢʟee☎✉ 12:14, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Hello

Great to meet you today at the Cambridge Misplaced Pages gathering Cmglee! Happy editing --Computor (talk) 15:57, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the picture! --Mark91it's my world 00:42, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

g function - wrong direction

http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Comparison_convolution_correlation.svg on the Convolution part the g function (red line) is probably skewed in the wrong direction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.206.22.43 (talk) 01:10, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

I started a thread at Misplaced Pages:Reference_desk/Mathematics#File:Comparison_convolution_correlation.svg but noone has replied. Would you please explain why the red line is incorrect? cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 20:16, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Original Research

Please don't add original research as you did to the Maya calendar articles. Senor Cuete (talk) 15:06, 21 December 2012 (UTC)Senor Cuete

From your comment "Revert to last un vandalized and no OR version" on Mesoamerican calendars, I infer that you meant that my illustration is original research. All the information in it is derived from tables in Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar#Correlations_between_Western_calendars_and_the_Long_Count and Maya_calendar#Long_Count — I just organized it in a graphical form so that it is much easier to compare the large range of numbers. Could you identify what you mean by original research? I'll start a thread on Talk:Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar and apppreciate your feedback there. cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 19:36, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

River Alde map

Thanks for adding this to the commons and to the River Alde article. It's great - and really interesting, as a local, to be able to pick out Iken church for example! I'll probably use it in a couple of other articles for the area that I'm considering working up fairly soon.

You might want to note that there's a public domain flag on the Commons that you might need to address for the image. Images always scare me so I'm not entirely sure what the flag is...

Btw, if you have a moment could you look at the River Ore article. I was considering combining the Alde and Ore in one article - I'd value any thoughts you might have on this. Thanks again for the map. Blue Square Thing (talk) 19:28, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

That was quick! My pleasure, Blue Square Thing — I'm glad you found the map useful. I've updated the licence to Template:PD-Art-100 which I think fits better. I'll have a look at Ore, though I'm not particularly familiar with it. cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 19:35, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

P.S. On reading River Ore, I've come to realise that it's effectively the same river as River Alde. Therefore, I agree on a merge, leaving a Redirect from River Ore. I've proposed a merge there, so please support it if you like. cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 19:56, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Ta - I've tidied the merge stuff up a little and made a formal proposal. Blue Square Thing (talk) 20:34, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

An earlier effort of yours

Template:Volcanic Eruption Map (renamed from something .svg): While the work is appreciated, it was a wee bit broken. I'm going to adjust this template a bit, add some vars. Good work on the scaling, though. Can't believe I didn't see that until today. ResMar 01:36, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Since you seem to be an image specialist, have you looked at the following script: User:Dapete/ImageMapEdit.js? Imagemaps seem precisely up your alley. And one more thing: I made a request at the workshop a while ago that has since gone stale, think you can handle it? ResMar 01:57, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

&one more thing, the Merapi event was in 2010, not 2011, so that needs correcting. I would do that myself but you have some wonky root protection on the image and I don't know how to ungroup the objects through it. Say, how *did* you do that? ResMar 02:53, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Many thanks for creating the image map and notifying me about the mistake, ResMar. I've fixed Merapi's year, but I'm unsure by what you mean by "root protection" — I create the SVGs by hand in a text editor, so perhaps Inkscape or another graphics editor doesn't like the formatting. Converting a bitmap to SVG is very difficult by hand, so I've to leave the task to someone more familiar with Inkscape etc. Though WIkipedia prefers SVGs, I think the GIF is fine (I can convert it to PNG if needed) especially since the USGS is a public domain source. I'm unfamiliar with image maps, so can you tell me how to use ImageMapEdit.js? cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 03:04, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

It's a tool that loads onto the page whenever you end up at an image. It adds a button below the image that lets you map coordinates, assign links, and etc. for imagemaps. I tuned Template:Volcanic Eruption Map using it, for instance, and I think you would find it handy given that you're a technical graphic contributor. Just looking at your talk page it would be useful for File:Moon landing sites.svg and File:Comparison of highest mountains.svg As for the map, that would explain it, I don't have experience with Inkscape's raw XML editor (or, really, raw XML, yeah, I know). The low quality of the GIF bothers me, is the problem. I looked through your image credits and really, I'm impressed, so here have one of these:

		The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
		Awarded for bang-on illustrative contributions, because Misplaced Pages needs more technically-minded graphic artists. ResMar 14:51, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

addendum: I took a stab at converting the graphic, this is the result. ResMar 19:37, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the Barnstar, ResMar. I'll keep User:Dapete/ImageMapEdit.js in mind for relevant images. cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 15:01, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Lagrangian_points_equipotential.gif

${\displaystyle \Psi (x,y,z)=\left({x-{\frac {q}{1+q}}}\right)^{2}+y^{2}+{\frac {2}{(1+q){\sqrt {x^{2}+y^{2}+z^{2}}}}}+{\frac {2q}{(1+q){\sqrt {(x-1)^{2}+y^{2}+z^{2}}}}}}$

File:2013 Lahad Datu standoff.svg

Hi, I think that the map needs to be modified. Mindanao can be regarded as a province in the illustration and Zamboanga is its capital. What I can suggest is we change the font size of Mindanao as well as Zamboanga's, and adding Bongao as the capital in addition with the existing Simunul marker. If I may add, Sipadan is irrelevant to the ongoing conflict in Sabah as this pertains only to the 2000 Kidnapping incident in which Kirams or the Malaysian government is not a part of it. Thanks! adkranz (talk) 02:05, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your feedback, Adkranz.

1. I'm unsure what you meant by the first part. Do you mean that Zamboanga is incorrectly indicated as the capital of Mindanao? I've updated the markers to show that it is a city but not the capital.
2. Tawi Tawi is already too crammed to fit a Bongao marker. Besides, it's not mentioned in the article.
3. I think the 2000 kidnapping is wholly relevant as it's another "terrorist" (for lack of a better term) incident by another militant group in the vicinity. I've made the font smaller to deemphasise it.

cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 12:12, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Also, don't forget to update your map on ms wiki. ;) — иz нίpнόp 16:52, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Maximum Range of North Korean Missiles

http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20130408/180512410/Maximum-Range-of-North-Korean-Missiles.html thanks for your work Lettres (talk) 20:43, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Lettres. That's a nice infographic. cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 21:10, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

State election results template

• Regarding the extra column in the Template:Malaysian general election state results, 2013, I don't see it as necessary. We already have the number of seats in Barisan, Pakatan and Independents and their variances, including the totals. Can you explain by what you mean when you say changes in the number of seats for each state? There hasn't been any changes in the number of seats in states for the past 10 years or the introduction of new state seats. This procedure I believe is only done every 10 years due to population changes in the country.Lazybugger13 (talk) 07:41, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

• Hi Lazybugger13, if you look at the +/- columns for Kedah and Selangor, the sum of all the parties' values is not zero (e.g. Selangor has BN losing 9 and PR gaining 10, implying that one new seat has been created). Since you wrote, "There hasn't been any changes in the number of seats in states for the past 10 years or the introduction of new state seats," does that imply that the numbers in the table are wrong? cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 21:08, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi guys, sorry for interjecting your conversation, but allow me to clarify a few things on this topic. Indeed, there's no change in state assembly seats between 2008 and 2013. However, there could be changes within that period like by-elections and passing of an assemblyman, which is reflected in List of State Seats Representatives in Malaysia (before GE13). If you refer to that article for the changes in seats, you might find that the figures don't add up properly, as in the Selangor example.

Vacant seats should not be considered "missing" in 2008 results and "added back" in 2013. Still, it's not clear whether you want to base the changes on the 2008 elected results, or up to the point before GE13, including by-elections and changes of allegiance. Hytar (talk) 21:51, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi cmglee, actually when I started the summary table I was basing it from the List of State Seats Representatives in Malaysia, whereby for example Selangor has 56 seats. There hasn't been any new seat created in Selangor since the the 2008 general elections. Going through the Selangor list again, BN has 21 seats, DAP has 12 seats, PKR has 14 seats and PAS has 8 seats (this gives PR 34 in total) and one vacant seat(due to the passing of assemblyman Edward Lee from DAP on December 2011). Now BN won 12 seats (meaning they lost 9 seats), PR won 44 seats (meaning they won 10 seats, including the vacant seat). Now regarding Kedah, we got BN at 14 seats, DAP 1 seat, PKR 2 seats, PAS 16 seats(This gives PR 19 seats in total) and 2 independents. The recent election saw BN winning 21 seats (gain of 7 seats, meaning they scooped up both the independent seats too and 4 PR seats) and PR gaining 15 seats (lost of 4 seats). So in a way the table is correct and those need an extra column on seat variances next to the total. As Hytar mentioned we are looking at basing the changes up to the point before the GE13 taking into account, by-elections and changes of allegiances.Lazybugger13 (talk) 08:29, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

My apologies regarding the previous post regarding Kedah. In actual fact let's summarise the Kedah list again. I shouldn't have taken the list at face value without checking it thoroughly. BN has 14 seats, DAP 1 seat, PKR 4 seats, PAS 16 seats (this gives PR 21 seats) and 1 independent This gives us 36 seats in total. Recently BN won 21 seats (a gain of 7 seats) and PR has won 15 seats (a lost of 6 seats) and the independent lost his seat. So in actual fact the table has to be tweaked with new corrections.Lazybugger13 (talk) 08:49, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the detailed analysis, Lazybugger13. In that case, I agree with you that the +/- column in the table is redundant. cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 11:07, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Symmetrical_5-set_Venn_diagram.svg

Do you still have the code you used to generate the 5 way Venn diagram? I would like to know the center of the ellipsis; hence I'm asking. Thank you. Carstensen (talk) 11:00 am, 16 April 2013, Tuesday (1 month, 30 days ago) (UTC+1)

Hi, Carstensen. I've just seen your message as I'm notified when someone edits my user talk page but not my user page, so please drop me a message at my user talk page in the future. To answer your question, the code is in the SVG itself (that's the beauty of SVG). This is the relevant part:

<ellipse id="ellipse" cx="36" cy="-56" rx="160" ry="320" />

i.e. if the centre of rotation is at (0, 0), and ellipse A's major semi-axis is 320 and minor semi-axis is 160, its centre is at (36, -56). Hope that's useful! cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 23:36, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Great stuff! Thank you! I did it in gnuplot already. You live in Cambridge, UK? So do I. Carstensen (talk) 23:52, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

That's great! If you'd like to meet other Misplaced Pages editors nearby, do come to Misplaced Pages:Cambridge_University_Wikipedia_Society/May_Week_2013. See you around, cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 14:06, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

TemplateData is here

Hey Cmglee

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:08, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

File:Comparison International Standard Atmosphere space diving.svg

It seems unbalanced to show three of Baumgartner's jump but only one of Kittinger's which were at about the same altitudes. Rmhermen (talk) 19:00, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, that's a fair point, Rmhermen. I've updated the graphic as on the right, though there's a little bug with the SVG renderer (http://commons.wikimedia.org/Commons:Graphics_village_pump#Truncated_quadratic_Bezier_in_rendered_SVG). cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 18:23, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

ACRE SIZE COMPARISON

Nice graph. When you get the time, would it be possible to add the unit of the "perch" (sq. rod) to the chart? As the acre is defined as 4x40 of these originally, it is a more important unit than the square chain to have a comparison.

Also, the rood, quarter acre is also used for subdivisions that don't simply decimalize acres for sale. In Sri Lanka, Jamaica, and at one time in all countries that used acres for land, deed descriptions were broken down ACRE, ROOD, PERCH.

In any case, this is a great visualization. Thanks for adding it! Surveyor792 (talk) 23:20, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the constructive feedback, Surveyor792. I've updated the graphic and uploaded it as Comparison_land_area_units.svg as on the left. cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 12:44, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Million Award

Hi Cmglee,

In a few days I'm going to be starting a new Misplaced Pages award that I'm tentatively calling the Million Award. You can read details about it at User:Khazar2/Million, but the basic idea is to reward editors who bring a particularly high traffic article to GA or FA to encourage work on our most-read articles.

The biggest problem I've run into is creating an image. I have zero skill in graphic design, and a "million" is hard to represent in userbox size. I was toying with the idea of adapting your visualization of 1 million in some way--perhaps as simple as this--but it occurred to me that I might ask you for help directly. Would you have any interest in helping with a graphic or graphics for this award?

Since this is for user pages only, it doesn't need anything fancy; anything you'd be willing to slap together would be a huge help. The only trick is that it has to look good at 42px or so in order to go into a userboxes as well as a barnstar, or have some variation that can be reduced to 42px. Eventually, I hope to make separate images for the three different tiers of the award (Quarter Million, Half Million, and Million), but any image will do to get the ball rolling.

What do you think? If there's any way we could work out a labor trade, I'm always up for copyediting, reviewing, etc. In any case, thanks for all your terrific image work--I really enjoyed looking over your userpage, especially the peripheral drift illusion. -- Khazar2 (talk) 05:15, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Good initiative, Khazar2. I'd be glad to help. this is a red link, though. What did you have in mind? cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 11:43, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Oh, sorry. The correct link is here. You can see a very early draft of how it might look here, though I'm still playing with formatting, colors, etc. Feel free to start from scratch, though, if it's easier--I really appreciate the help. -- Khazar2 (talk) 12:00, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I had a look at your work with Misplaced Pages and am really impressed with what I saw! I've thought a bit about the idea of 3 intersecting planes of cyan, magenta and yellow (representing "articles" in the traditional printing sense) forming a unit cube in the middle. I'll draw something up later today — I'll let you know... cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 12:39, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Great, thanks! I'll look forward to seeing it. Feel free to add them to the sandbox draft directly if you like. -- Khazar2 (talk) 12:42, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

		The Million Award
		For bringing Article X (est. annual readership: X,XXX,XXX) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all your work on behalf of Misplaced Pages's readers! -- ~~~~

This user won the Million Award for bringing ] to Good Article status.

Here you go... and good luck with the Million Award proposal!

I'll let you know if/when I need any help with Misplaced Pages :) cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 18:21, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Just wanted to say thanks again for this. The rollout's been a big success, and a number of editors specifically praised your design. Cheers, -- Khazar2 (talk) 11:40, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Gorgeous! Can't thank you enough. Cheers, -- Khazar2 (talk) 18:24, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Comparison area units.svg

A discussion at Talk:Acre#Detailed view failure points out that {{Comparison area units.svg}} has a "detailed view" link that does not work. I can't work out what was intended, so please have a look. Johnuniq (talk) 23:20, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Use of a Photo

Hi Cmglee I would like to use your photo of the Napp building in Cambridge Science Park on the website of a new Cambridge membership organisation promoting Cambridge. The image is at the top right of the page https://en.wikipedia.org/Cambridge_Science_Park

Can you please let me know your usage terms? Is a credit sufficient and if so can you please tell me what name etc to include. Please email me.

Thanks, mcsorg (email is richard at mcs-organisation.com) Mcsorg (talk) 18:00, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Mcsorg,

Certainly, feel free to use it under the standard Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported terms: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en . I'd appreciate if you could link back to my user page http://en.wikipedia.org/user:cmglee . Just out of curiosity, could you please tell me the website address of your organisation?

Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:29, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Cmglee I'll check the licence conditions. Can't show you the design site but the holding page is www.cambridgeahead.co.uk It'll be difficult to put a link on the home page banner to your user page as the image will be hyperlinked to another internal page. Need to put line 'Image courtesy of CMglee' underneath the image and hyperlink your username. Would that be acceptable? Also I may be in touch re other images you have done. It would really good to get your email address - please email me? RF 86.138.8.29 (talk) 23:40, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi again, Mcsorg. OK, that's fine. Shall we communicate by user talk page for now? Thanks, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:11, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi again cmglee Is there any chance of us getting a super high res copy of the image we really like i.e. 800px-Cambridge_Science_Park_Napp because our designer has designed a pop up banner stand using it but I've had to tell him I don't have a big enough image. But we really like it - can you provide and what are the crediting arrangements if we use it? Happy to put a credit line under it but also happy to pay within reason. Our artwork deadline is tomorrow :( so I'd appreciate a quick response. Sorry for all this. If you can please do email me richard at mcs-organisation.com but I understand your preference. RF 13:57, 11 November 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcsorg (talk • contribs)

Hi, Could you please clarify which NAPP image it is? Please reply with the filename here. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 20:52, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes the file is 800px-Cambridge_Science_Park_Napp and is located at at the top right of the page https://en.wikipedia.org/Cambridge_Science_Park. Thanks RF Mcsorg (talk) 13:57, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I just found out that I've lost the original in a hard drive crash a few years ago. This is the best I have now:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Cambridge_Science_Park_Napp.jpg

OK, just the line "Image courtesy of CMGLEE" and hyperlink CMGLEE to http://wikipedia.org/user:cmglee is sufficient. Thanks and good luck on your endeavour! cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 22:14, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Comparison of pyramids.svg

Hi! I am interested to know why the Etemenanki is left out of your very nice graphic comparison of pyramids? Is the reason that you only include still existing pyramids? I personally think it could be included because it was big (91 meters high), is a step pyramid comparable to the Mayan ones (like Chichen Itza) and it has a great historical significance (tower of babel). What do you think? ;-)

Greetings -- Weapon X (talk, contribs) 01:43, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Weapon X. To be honest, it was a simply a case of not being aware of Etemenanki before you told me about it. It certainly has a very interesting history. Nevertheless, I'm not sure about including it because:

• It no longer exists, as you noted.
• The graphic is already pretty crowded.

Any thoughts? cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:38, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Yes, that it no longer exist is a good reason for not including it! But I personally would much more love to see it included then the three biggest "pyramids" (Ryuyong Hotel, The Shard, Transamerica Pyramid) because they all are just present day skyscrapers who are mimicking a pyramid but aren't exactly one (same counts for the Burj Khalifa which looks like a kind of step pyramid.) On top of that these three biggest pyramids squash the other pyramids in the lower part of the graphic which makes it more difficult to view.

What about one graphic of still existing pyramids (in their nowadays height) and one with historical pyramids with their original height and shape (including Etemenanki and Pyramid of Djedefre)? Just a though... -- Weapon X (talk, contribs) 17:31, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

That's a good idea, Weapon X. Would you be willing to make a start? You can just take my image and remove the modern ones — each has its own SVG group — and add the 2 new ones. Alternatively, if you can draw their silhouettes at a scale of 1 SVG unit/metre and either upload the SVG or paste the code below, I can include them and remove the modern ones this weekend. Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 20:12, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi cmglee, sorry it took so long for me to anwer... Unfortunately I am in no way familiar with SVG graphics yet. But it would be an interesting way to get familiar with it (if I ever find the time for it... could take month ;-D). -- Weapon X (talk, contribs) 14:55, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

No worries, Weapon X. Writing raw SVG (like HTML) can be very tedious compared to using a visual editor but one has great control over the output, and one can write scripts in assorted languages (I use Perl mostly) to automate its production, which makes it quite powerful for visualising data e.g. graphs. Let me or editors at the Commons Graphics Village Pump know if you need any help with it! cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 20:19, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Absolute Tower #2

Hi Cmglee, I like your picture for Absolute Tower #1. It clearly illustrates the degree each floor rotates. Is there any chance you also have the data for Tower #2? Would you please drop me a note if you have the data? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidly2k (talk • contribs) 13:12, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, but sorry, Tower 1 was the only one I found. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 14:31, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Singing on the River

I've been editing the Trinity College, Cambridge page to update the 'Masters of the College' section, and noticed that your Singing on the River photo is very dark (especially noticable in the thumbnail). Might it be tweaked to show things more clearly? I've done a quick fix using Preview which you can see at https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xlvr2h1u9tb3kv/singing%20on%20the%20river.jpg (I've moved it to a different folder; see below for details), which you are welcome to use if you wish (I started with the full size picture to produce this), though you might be able to make a better version with jazzier software. By the way, the conductor is Trinity's Director of Music, Stephen Layton, if you'd like to add that somewhere appropriate. --Brian Josephson (talk) 09:50, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on the article and picture. I've brightened it as far as I dared without the noise becoming overwhelming (the picture was taken at high ISO) and uploaded it. I also added your comment about the conductor to the image's description. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:21, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

I see your point about noise, in the reflections of the trees in the river particularly, though that is only apparent with very large image sizes which most people will not use. By increasing the contrast it is possible to make the picture brighter while keeping the tree reflections very dark so the noise becomes less conspicuous. I've made a quick attempt at this, and you can see both in a single folder, https://www.dropbox.com/sh/c24kw46qp1lung6/XkadFSYBY3, so you can compare the two easily. I must say I prefer it lighter even if that means not making it available at super-high resolution (but then again it might be argued that the darker one better represents the reality), but of course there's no reason why both can't be made available even if only one is linked directly to the article. --Brian Josephson (talk) 10:15, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Am I right in thinking that not all of the different size versions have been brightened? It looks to me as if only the 3,072 × 2,048 pixels and 1,280 × 853 pixels ones have been reprocessed and the others are still dark. It would be good if you could brighten the 800 × 533 pixels one as well as that's the one that shows by default when you click on the thumbnail. But it looks as if that might not be under your control? --Brian Josephson (talk) 16:42, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

I've no control over the Mediawiki software in this respect: all thumbnails are generated from the same source image. Some thumbnails may appear darker because they are the old versions which it has not yet updated, but they will change in due course.

I'll employ a workaround using the Annotated image template to crop the thumbnail on the page. Let me know what you think. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 20:52, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Actually, I think it is better uncropped as with it cropped you don't get so much of a sense of the watching crowd, which adds atmosphere, though a lesser crop could work. Also I don't think it is good having the singers so close to the left side of the frame, but I suppose you don't have much control over that. The darker images are still dark at this time, but in any case the current situation is a lot better than at the start where the thumbnail on the main page was a lot too dark.

Update: it looks like the update robot has now brightened all the images. My feeling now about cropping is that the most aesthetic crop would be to crop the left side so that the illuminated window in the background just fits in. But it's really up to you to decide as it's your photo.

If I went last year (I'm not sure if I did or not), we would have been quite close to you! Perhaps we'll meet at a Cambridge gathering some time -- I hadn't realised such things existed till I stumbled on that page by accident.--Brian Josephson (talk) 21:32, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Are you still in Cambridge? If so, I'd love to meet you at an upcoming meetup where editors can talk about not only Misplaced Pages but also other Wikimedia ideas.

As for the picture, I don't mind your editing the page any way you see fit. Feel free to revert my crop. The other thing you could do it's to upload your brightened version (we'll have to fill an OTRS form for me to do itt.), display it as a thumbnail, and make it link to my original when someone clicks on i you upload it,t. If you're unsure of the Wikitext syntax, once tell me and I'll update the article. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 22:21, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

I don't have time for the complexities of replacing your picture with my adjusted version, but have adjusted the parameters for the thumbnail so as to rebalance the picture.

I am still in Cambridge, but I see the next future meet is last year(!) and I don't possess a time machine ... but I'll watch for it. Perhaps Cambridge can figure out a way to deal with the 'teenage gang' problem (see my compilation The World is Watching) which seriously disrupts some of the pages I've been trying to make better balanced. --Brian Josephson (talk) 10:04, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

I didn't realise you're Professor Josephson; it's an honour to communicate with you, Sir! Sorry, I overlooked how out-of-date that page is; this is a more recent one, but there doesn't seem to be one planned for Cambridge, UK.

I support your views on "teenage gangs". I suppose one of the traits of Misplaced Pages is its overturning of structures of authority, where supposedly all edits, whether from Nobel laureates or teenage dropouts are given the same amount of importance or respect, and only references from reputable sources matter. However, as with any large human system, a new power structure has emerged, just as in other volunteer-based organisations I've experienced. I just try to stay clear of hotspots and do illustrations on concrete topics which I find less contentious.

Incidentally, if you've any topics in your field you think could be improved with an illustration, please let me know and I'll see if it's within my abilities! cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:29, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

I've had another go with the Singing on the River thumbnail as you may have seen. I guess one has to choose between a good view of the singers, or getting the overall atmosphere including the audience, you can't have both in the thumbnail as it is so small (and I reduced the height slightly in my latest to get better framing).

The RS constraint would matter less if the teenage gangs didn't impose their own interpretation (as they do with 'fringe topics', which is more serious; defining something thus legitimises all sorts of damage). When you say 'new power structure', are you referring to the structure I'm familiar with, which empowers the gangs, or is that changing?

Re your query about illustrations, there's a nice picture by Debendetti and Errington, in http://arxiv.org/ftp/cond-mat/papers/0206/0206354.pdf, of a 15-molecule water cluster obtained by computer simulation (molecules cluster in such a way as to maximise the space they take up) which could illustrate the memory of water page (Debenedetti has sent me a colour version), but there's absolutely no point in making a graphic from that for the water memory page as the cabal would instantly cook up some reason for removing it. But the simulation does nicely refute the common view that liquid water is just separate molecules -- the clusters in the simulation are very specific. --Brian Josephson (talk) 09:59, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Well done on the thumbnail, Brian. Since we're on this subject, I wonder if you've any opinion on this topic: Talk:Trinity_College,_Cambridge#Singing_on_the_River.

About "gangs", I think it's a broad label that covers people with an agenda (beyond presenting facts as neutrally and truthfully as possible) to push. What constitutes a reputable source is difficult to define, and everyone draws the line differently.

I had a quick look at your paper and it's certainly beyond my knowledge scope to evaluate it. It seems like a different phenomenon from this article. If so, I think it's rather unfortunate that they share the same name, as the latter is not very highly regarded (putting it mildly). cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 13:15, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

I've tracked down the situation re earlier singing on the river, it was the CU Madrigal Society: see the edits on the page. Re the memory of water, the authors did a computer simulation showing that large clusters of water molecules form according to it. This in theory could provide a mechanism for memory, though their simulation doesn't show how long the clusters last. But I suspect a subtler and more global organisation (cf. quasicrystals) is the mechanism for memory.--Brian Josephson (talk) 16:50, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for researching and updating the Singing on the River society. By the way, I've just spotted a little coincidence that someone had added a photo I took of the Wren Library to your page! cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 13:31, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Why constellations are defined the way they are

I found myself on your user page following a watchlist notification and noted that you were surprised at the fact that constellations are defined by astronomers as regions of the sky rather than the familiar star groupings. The explanation is very simple: it is a way to indicate roughly where in the sky an object such as a comet is at any given time, without the observer needing to have a star atlas handy to get the precise location. So for example if you are told that a certain comet is in Gemini, you look up and find Gemini the star group in the sky, and that will be roughly where the comet is. --Brian Josephson (talk) 11:36, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, Brian. That makes sense, as defining it by celestial coordinates rather than stars allows new discoveries to be unambiguously assigned to a constellation. On the other hand, as stars move in the future, the stars which lay-people consider part of a constellation may no longer be in its coordinate-based one. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 12:11, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

In fact, coordinates change in any case, owing to the precession of the equinoxes. That is a much faster change than that due to the movements of the stars. My first Norton's Star Atlas was 'Epoch 1950' and now I have 'Epoch 2000' -- presumably there was enough change over 50 years for it to be considered good to change the defining epoch. But presumably the constellation boundaries are defined relative to some galactic coordinate system, and are unaffected by precession of the equinoxes, so you will be pleased to know that wikipedia users a century hence will still be able to use your chart! But, as you say, the constellations will look different if we go a million or so years into the future. If you're wondering why astronomers use these funny moving coordinates, by the way, the answer is that they are used to point telescopes in the right direction -- the axis of the earth slowly changes over time, and as telescopes are grounded in the earth corresponding changes have to be made in how they are set.

If I may marginally shift topic, it is often said that the 'year 2000 bug' was overblown. I know of two exceptions to this. One was a telephone service provider that ceased operating early in the year 2000. The evidence pointed to the reason for this being that a year 2000 bug caused them to lose credit card and other customer details so they could no longer bill customers for their phone usage. The other was a computer controlled telescope I had which stopped being able to locate stars after 2000, but could do it correctly if you reset the time to the same date in a previous year. --Brian Josephson (talk) 08:44, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the insights, Brian. I suppose an even smaller effect is plate tectonics! As for the Y2K non-event, I felt at the time that the media response was uncalled for; engineers all around the world including myself spent effort testing and fixing systems so they wouldn't fail. If we hadn't and things went wrong, they would've blamed us for not taking it seriously enough! cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 18:19, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

I remember now the pieces of evidence re Y2K. One was that the company informed customers that they had a system problem and you couldn't do something or other until this was fixed. And then they announced they were ceasing their service. The final bit of evidence for my theory (together with the fact that it was not long after the beginning of 2000) was they never collected the amount owing to them for the phone calls made since the last payment!
But I recall another company that ceased some service and tried to keep the money remaining on one's account. When I complained, they said the T&C said that if an arrangement was terminated there would be no refund if the amount in the account was less than £15. Obviously that applied only if it was the customer who wanted to terminate the agreement not them, and sensing I was an awkward customer they refunded the balance in due course. --Brian Josephson (talk) 18:49, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Moodle site

I have finished the latest version of the VLE site we talked about when we last met. It is at http://moodle.wikimedia.org.uk/. You will only be able to read the front page, but I can create an account if you want one.

There is an index on a wiki page at

https://modulewiki.wikimedia.org.uk/ModuleWiki:Modules

and the links there will take you to plain text versions of the VLE content. The Moodle site itself has much more (e.g. quizzes): the wiki version is really just to indicate the scope on the open Web. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:28, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Charles. Good coverage on Misplaced Pages topics! I don't fully understand the relevance of (A), (B) and (C). What's (X), in particular? I also found the list a little hard to read, and made this table: https://modulewiki.wikimedia.org.uk/ModuleWiki_talk:Modules . cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 12:42, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

(A), (B) and (C) are indications of audience: A is introductory, B is the level of everyday editing on Misplaced Pages, and C is advanced. X is very advanced (expert). These things are explained on the VLE itself in the basic "General Introduction". Charles Matthews (talk) 19:52, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	Cool images! Lordakryl (talk) 11:05, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Lordakryl! cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 12:15, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Can you do this?

Please take a look at this suggestion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by UA Victory (talk • contribs) 16:37, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

I'm sorry, UA Victory, but your request is beyond my abilities. I'd suggest just cropping the corresponding area from OpenStreetMap and cite it as appropriate. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 20:09, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Well thanks for your reply, but the map from OpenStreetMap won't do it because it reflects the current situation. I want the map that shows the historical situation. --UA Victory (talk) 20:26, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Lego dimensions

Hi Cmglee,

If I understand well, you are the author of the dimensions diagram on the Lego page (https://en.wikipedia.org/File:Lego_dimensions.svg).

I carefully measured dimensions for the purpose of 3D modelling, and arrive at different values for the diameter of the knobs.

See http://www.cailliau.org/Alphabetical/L/Lego/Dimensions/More%20Dimensions/

as well as

http://www.cailliau.org/Alphabetical/L/Lego/Dimensions/General%20Considerations/

I think the wikipedia image has to be changed. Comments welcome.

Robert. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RobertCailliau (talk • contribs) 10:49, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Robert,

Excellent work on finding out the dimensions, especially rotating a 1×1 brick 45° to find the stud diameter. While Misplaced Pages doesn't normally accept original research, I suppose this is the best source I could find, so I'll accept your values.

I don't fully understand why you have 2 sets of outlines: black solid and red dashed ones. Just based on geometry arguments alone, if the stud pitch is 8 mm and stud separation (equal to plate thickness) is 3.2 mm, wouldn't the difference necessarily be 8 - 3.2 = 4.8 mm, unless the stud separation is slightly smaller and they move apart/are compressed when a plate is inserted?

cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 15:56, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Quayside photos

Thanks for the Quayside photos, they're good. I added one to the punt article, sometime I'll add a section about punt touts. Edward (talk) 12:23, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Titanic passenger article

Looks great! I think probably the only criticism I have for the image itself is that it maybe needs a key? It's hard to see what the little symbols mean. Otherwise, great job! Morhange (talk) 03:55, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I've added a key and made the symbols the same. Better? cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 19:04, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Connection

See my talk page. --Brian Josephson (talk) 18:29, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Comparison_optical_telescope_primary_mirrors.svg

First, I really like the graphic as it shows the size of modern optical telescopes.

I did note one error, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) is not located on Mauna Kea but rather Cerro Paranal in Chile. As a side note, while the Large Binocular Telescope is indeed located in the Pinaleño Mountains, the site is almost always referred to as Mount Graham.

Thanks for your contributions to the community.

Some call me Tim (talk) 16:28, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much for spotting my careless mistake, Some call me Tim. I've corrected it and done a few edits as on the right. Please let me know if you find any more mistakes or omissions. Thanks, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 20:35, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

BTW, Apparently Gizmodo likes your illustration, too. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 02:45, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

And universetoday.com. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 07:53, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Map of the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

Hi! You wrote:

The map needs labels, especially for the more important dots. I can add them if someone can identify the places (if so, please leave a message on my Talk page).

I can help with it. All the labels are on this map (the crash site map was actually based on an early version of it). Labels are in Russian. If you don't speak Russian, I can help with translation. --Alex1961 (talk) 10:55, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Alex1961. I don't speak Russian, so any help will be appreciated. I think only the major place-names need translation. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 11:13, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

I've added some labels. Please feel free to make any edits. --Alex1961 (talk) 12:22, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

That's excellent! I've made the colour of the rest of Ukraine light orange to make it more distinguishable from that of Russia. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 12:45, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Sequential colour scale

Hello, do you remember your reuploading of this map? Where you found this colors, and do you help me with this? What's program you used, that generate this sequential color scale. I want use same color scale for another maps, but I don't know what color needed for...em... digit 6. :) I hope you understand me, because I like this color scale. Thanks. ← Alex Great _rus? 11:48, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliment, Alex. I generated the colours by eye and not with a program. A sensible colour for "6" could be #cc00cc. Below is the complete sequence. I've slightly lightened "5" so they can be more easily distinguished. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 15:34, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

Well, you have a very good color perception. But what happens when the number of wins of any country exceeds 7 times? ← Alex Great _rus? 02:48, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Perhaps I just have a good monitor! "But what happens when the number of wins of any country exceeds 7 times?" is a good point. Guess one will just have to come up with another colour. On the other hand, the number of wins is boundless, so there might be a problem sooner or later. Let's cross that bridge when we come to it. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 12:01, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

I totally agree. In any case, it is possible to offer any other scale that, for example, be generated automatically (for example, the same function available in the Microsoft Office Excel). ← Alex Great _rus? 12:39, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

If you haven't seen a method using the golden ratio, please see this page: http://martin.ankerl.com/2009/12/09/how-to-create-random-colors-programmatically/ I've also been reading about Halton sequences, which can be used to pick a point in 2D colourspace (I don't know how optimal that would be, though). cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 18:02, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Japanese Calendar Image

Regarding the addition of the Japanese calendar to the Gregorian calendar article, since the Japanese use a modified Gregorian calendar it's a bit odd to find it there. Might it be better suited to the Japanese calendar article? JMJimmy (talk) 22:54, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Considering the language used in the calendar and the author, the calendar was in no way Japanese, except in style (likely for Victorian exotic tastes). cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:01, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Actually it was Japanese, see stamp, the publisher was known for producing this style of book in a dozen European languages. They had Japanese artists doing the work and hired prominent foreigners transliterate from Japanese tales/poetry. The colophon in the back of this particular one indicates it was the year Meiji 31. The story itself is about a 3day festival that takes place around the end of February in Japan. JMJimmy (talk) 00:45, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Your illustrations for the fourier series explain it better than no lengthy essay ever could! The world needs more like you! Slashdottir (talk) 20:33, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks so much, Slashdottir. It's feedback like yours that keep me motivated to continue contributing! I'm glad the illustrations have been a help. Please let me know if there's anything else you think is worth illustrating. Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 20:56, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Cambridge meetup 20 September and Wiki Loves Monuments

The next meetup falls during Wiki Loves Monuments. Do you have some good idea of an event we could run in Cambridge related to WLM? Charles Matthews (talk) 10:04, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

There is an automatically-generated map I have just found. Charles Matthews (talk) 16:06, 2 September 2014 (UTC)\

Thanks for your note, Charles. If the weather is fine, I'll be glad to show or accompany anyone around either by bike or on foot.

I suggest a themed tour e.g. the bridges, churches, museums or even sundials in Cambridge.

More conventionally, we can visit and photograph some Grade I listed buildings in Cambridge, or can take a few people into the colleges (say, up to 5). Punting is another option, though that's more social!

Any thoughts? cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 20:59, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

P.S. Went on this tour last year and loved it. I can follow roughly the same route if people are interested. (People are responsible for their own safety, bringing their own bikes etc.)

Interesting! Could you fit a tour into two hours, so that it ran for example from a 1 pm rendezvous, to a 3 pm finish at CB2? Charles Matthews (talk) 08:35, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Would you know if the participants

• Are already familiar with Cambridge, and
• Have bikes?

I can't think of many interesting sites within a short walk of CB2, perhaps except the ARU campus (which I'm not too familiar with) and Parker's Piece (home of football and Reality Checkpoint). Do you have anything in mind? cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:36, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

I can't say who would come - maybe people from London, for example. That would be one reason to have an event before the meetup itself.

I'm quite interested in monuments in Chesterton. There is Chesterton Tower at https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/52.2099/0.1397 . It is really the same site as Chesterton Abbey, which is one of the listed monuments. There are two photos of the Tower on Commons at present, one from Geograph. This is up to 30 minutes walk from CB2. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:04, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

That's really interesting, Charles. However, I apologise that I've just realised that London Open House falls on the same day and I'll be in London for it. Would you be willing to lead the group in Cambridge? The group can also see the Riverside Bridge, swift tower and Logan Meadow LNR en route. How about meeting at The Haymakers pub which is served by the Citi 2 bus? cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 13:14, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

OK, I need to research some more. Thanks for the suggestions. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:29, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Took some photos of Chesterton Tower... cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:12, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikisoba

https://wikimedia.org.uk/File:Wikisoba_box_diagram.pdf

Cambridge meetup and walk for 8 November

I'm thinking about a shorter walk for the Cambridge meetup. The theme would be Eglantyne Jebb: there is a plaque for her, but I had never noticed it. Charles Matthews (talk) 12:18, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Charles. I hadn't heard of Eglantyne Jebb before reading your note. I'd be glad to join your tour if you decide to run it as her biography sounds interesting. As I suggested at the last tour, do you think more people will come if we have it after the meetup? cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 13:59, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Not in November, I think. I was intending to start at 1.30. Charles Matthews (talk) 16:47, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Good point. Where does the tour visit, by the way? cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 20:53, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Unfortunately I haven't had time to do preparation, since I have been working on quizzes over the past few days. The plaque is above Hockey's on Regent Street, and really not very obvious. I'd prefer to do that walk another time, therefore. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:38, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Attribution

Hi, first of all thanks for the great graphs, really nice work. Secondly, I would like to use two of them in my thesis, specifically the "comparison optical telescope primary mirrors.svg" and "Diffraction limit diameter vs angular resolution.svg". How would you like me to attribute them? If you prefer to answer privately my email is pim (dot) messelink (dot) 10 (at) ucl (dot) ac (dot) uk. Messelink (talk) 14:32, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Certainly, Messelink, and thanks for your compliments and checking back with me — much appreciated! Based on the examples at http://commons.wikimedia.org/Commons:Credit_line#CC-BY_and_CC-BY-SA_licenses , you could have

© CMG Lee / http://commons.wikimedia.org/file:comparison_optical_telescope_primary_mirrors.svg / CC-BY-SA-3.0
© CMG Lee / http://commons.wikimedia.org/file:diffraction_limit_diameter_vs_angular_resolution.svg / CC-BY-SA-3.0

If you wouldn't mind and it's publicly accessible, I'd love to see how you've made use of them in your thesis :-) Ta, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 03:55, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Oh that actually helps a lot, much appreciated! At the moment it seems likely that the thesis will be embargoed for a few years because of an external sponsor, sorry about that! It is still being discussed so if things change I will be sure to let you know! Thanks again, Messelink (talk) 19:55, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Aurora

Hi Cmglee,

Editors of the Aurora page have been looking for someone to draw a three-dimensional schematic of the earth's magnetic fields to help describe the phenomena. As you'll see, the page currently includes the 2-D schema below. I'm sure I've seen something like this somewhere. I wonder if this is something that would interest you. The phenomena is so visually appealing that it really deserves a good schematic to match its intrinsic beauty. BakerStMD T|C 02:07, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi Bakerstmd, It would be a pleasure for me to draw it, but I'm not familiar with the aurora's 3D shape. Do you have an image from a reputable publicly-accessible online source I can base it on? Thanks, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 02:11, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

I found http://www.astronomynotes.com/solarsys/s7.htm and the thumbnail at right, neither of which are perfect, but which give a sense of the sort of thing that you might draw. I did a google image search and found lots of images of the shape, but none of them are a perfect 3-D image. I'm not an expert on this field and I'm sorry I can't advise you better. Hope that helps. BakerStMD T|C 16:47, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi again, If you don't mind, I've moved the thread to Talk:Aurora#3-D_type_Picture_of_the_auroral_doughnut_needed. to keep it with the anonymous user's original request. Note that it's quite old, so I'm unsure if anyone's still monitoring it. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 14:10, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

P.S. I recoloured the Van Allen belt graphic, by the way...

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Earthquake graph

Thank you very much for this graph. I was wondering if you would be willing to do a variant to illustrate the important point that deaths are not well predicted by earthquake size (even if you take into account tsunamis)? Since there are many very deadly earthquakes with a moment magnitude of <8, this doesn't show it as clearly as it might. A graph that showed that population density and earthquake preparedness have major and opposite effects on the number of deaths would also be very useful. Apart form off-wiki uses, it could be used in

• List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll#52_deadliest_earthquakes
• Earthquake#Human_impacts
• and some of the various pages on earthquake engineering and preparedness

HLHJ (talk) 22:06, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, HLHJ. That's an interesting idea. I think such an illustration is appropriate for an article specifically describing the correlation between death toll and population density/preparedness. Do you have one such article? If so, do you have data from a reputable source? Finally, good catch on the axis labels. I'll update it if I manage to get my Perl interpreter working; I've moved on to Python. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 14:19, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

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SVG

David.daileyatsrudotedu (talk) 21:07, 6 April 2015 (UTC) Hi I edit Misplaced Pages so infrequently that I'm not sure if this will work or not. CMG Lee, I am completely impressed with your example at SVG animation at http://en.wikipedia.org/SVG_animation#/media/File:Toy_train_SMIL.svg . I am wondering if we can chat at length through e-mail. I'm talking with W3C and Misplaced Pages about extending SVG functionality and perhaps you can talk at a conference? david.dailey@sru.edu

Many thanks, David. I am honored by your invitation. I had wanted to speak about my work with dynamic (interactive and animated) SVG creation at Wikimania 2015 but missed the scholarship deadline. In case you'd like to see some of my other ideas, I wrote up a short sections on

• my talk page, and
• a local meetup page.

I'll be glad to participate in your talks with W3C and Misplaced Pages, and collaborate with editors who wish to develop more dynamic SVG. If it's ok with you, can we keep the discussion in this section for now? (I've moved your message here to keep the thread together.) Cheers! cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:37, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

David.daileyatsrudotedu (talk) 17:02, 7 April 2015 (UTC) Hi again, yes the conference is September 23-26 in Pittsburgh. https://www.graphicalweb.org/2015/ See also the discussion at https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2015Mar/ (under the threads entitled Interactive Declarative Animation in <img>) Also, see http://www.svgopen.org/2009/presentations/50-SVG_in_Wikipedia_and_Wikimedia_Commons/index.pdf and http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/resources/svgprimer.html (it has some material on interactive SVG) I think I share your objectives here of using high quality animated and interactive graphics for illustration, explanation and education! -- here are a couple of other things vaguely reminiscent of your trains example: https://ello.co/ddailey/post/hynvB12pPA9wiYzvU0c9jQ and https://ello.co/ddailey/post/NLBLXkTIIYGiyrE4xVW3IA . Concerning Venn and Euler diagrams (I think I saw you had done something along those lines) see https://ello.co/ddailey/post/aaLse3NTZd6YS4ty3xJE3A Cheers! ( I don't seem to be able to get notifications here when a reply is made despite flagging it as "watched" -- so email might be more reliable;) ) David.daileyatsrudotedu (talk) 17:04, 5 May 2015 (UTC) Hello again. May 18th is the deadline for submitting something for the conference. Would love to see you submit something!

Thanks, David. I've sent you an email at david.dailey@sru.edu. Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:02, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

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Angle of view plot

Would be a lot more informative if both axes were log, instead of just the x axis. Dicklyon (talk) 23:37, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

That was quick, Dicklyon! Good idea — I'll see what I can come up with this weekend... cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 00:46, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

File:Euler diagram of quadrilateral types.svg

Compliments and thanks for this very elegant diagram, which manages to combine both the logical relations as well as depicting the actual shapes. There are some suggestions at File talk:Euler diagram of quadrilateral types.svg where your input would be much appreciated. Thanks! — Sebastian 07:14, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm continuing the discussion there. — Sebastian 18:13, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

File:Comparison optical telescope primary mirrors.svg

I tried to ungroup this SVG file with no success. I wanted to simplify the image to compare the mirrors of just the TMT and a few others with the scale of the human, excluding the basketball court etc, to make the thumb more easily readable and make a comparative illustration that is directly relevant to secondary sourcing comparisons. Could you help me out? Is there something I need to do to unlock the file in Inkscape before it can be ungrouped? I couldn't figure that out.--Mark Miller (talk) 19:22, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Mark. The SVG was hand-coded and not designed to be edited in Inkscape. If you open the SVG file in a text editor, you'll find that each object has been put in a distinct group, denoted by <g ...> ... </g>. Just delete the groups you don't want, and optionally edit the translate(x,y) values to move the remaining ones around. If you wish to upload it to Wikimedia, please call it a different name instead of overwriting the existing file. Let me know if you need further help. Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 22:57, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Oh yeah, this would be a different image entirely but for now this reminds me that I was discussing this image with Viriditas who felt it should return and I agreed that text could be sourced to make the image more relevant. I forgot all about that so I should re-add the image until we have something more specific. Even then, this has enough consensus to go back.--Mark Miller (talk) 23:05, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

It's fair that you'd prefer the measurements to be sourced. I had originally obtained them from the telescopes' respective articles. File_talk:Comparison_optical_telescope_primary_mirrors.svg has more sources for the size of their holes. At very least, it's survived some poor-man's peer review by appearing in some notable sites: http://phys.org/news/2015-01-biggest-telescopes-world-space.html , http://www.universetoday.com/118202/what-are-the-biggest-telescopes/ and http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/WSS/post.php?blog=24&post=7677 . On another note, I think having the sports courts is useful as they are standard units people from many countries can relate to. Additionally, a human is so small at this scale that it doesn't provide a useful comparison. Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 00:02, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Attributing a modified file

Hi Cmglee,

I found your page after seeing your bilinear interpolation graph (Bilinear_interpolation_visualisation.svg). I was really impressed with all of your work!

I made a small modification of this file for use during math presentations--only the labels are changed. Are you okay with me using this file, and if so, how would you prefer to be acknowledged? Should there be a link to the original file?

Here's the modified version: http://math.arizona.edu/~gzhelezov/temporary_upload/Bilinear_interpolation_visualisation.pdf

Thanks!

Gleb — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.196.102.182 (talk) 23:26, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Certainly, Gleb, and thanks for your compliments and checking back with me — much appreciated! Based on the examples at http://commons.wikimedia.org/Commons:Credit_line#CC-BY_and_CC-BY-SA_licenses , you could have

© CMG Lee / http://commons.wikimedia.org/file:bilinear_interpolation_visualisation.svg / CC-BY-SA-3.0

cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 07:18, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Use of photo

Hi Cmglee,

We would like to use the linked photo for an internal company presentation to demonstrate the advances in semiconductor fabrication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/Semiconductor_device_fabrication#/media/File:Comparison_semiconductor_process_nodes.svg

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DruceWayne2015 (talk • contribs) 00:47, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Sure, Druce. It'd be great if you could add a credit line as follows. Ta, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 22:08, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

© CMG Lee / http://commons.wikimedia.org/file:comparison_semiconductor_process_nodes.svg / CC-BY-SA-3.0

Notable Bridges graphic

Hi Cmglee, I was wondering, if it would be possible to add the Bandra Worli Sea Link to the image? At 5.6km, it is the longest bridge in India, and also the first open sea bridge in the country. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 12:34, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Heap algorithm

Hi, Heap's algorithm had an error in the pseudocode, so your excellent illustration File:Heap_algorithm_with_4_elements.svg is now unfortunately out of date. It would be great if it could be updated. The correct algorithm should use exactly 1 swap between each permutation. sverdrup (talk) 11:51, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

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