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StarCraft

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Not my website, its got its own wp article, and I got help there, its actually a pretty large community (100+ active members). Doodle77 21:54, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mahmud of Ghazni

I was editing Mahmud of Ghazni page correcting errors when you reverted this page. Mahmud of Ghazni is a folk hero in Pakistan and false allegations of his homosexuality has been added by some posters. Please inform yourself of all issues involved with his page before reverting changes. Thankyou for your cooperation.

Siddiqui 02:37, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, post an edit summary next time. Helps me clarify.

Aboul-Qacem Echebbi

Hi, What sort of cleanup are you think of? 16:01, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

The picture mainly, I dont know the wiki markup for the image box, hopefully someone else does. Also it needs to read more like other biographies on wikipedia. Doodle77 16:05, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK - I've marked up the image box. To see how to do it just edit the article and look at the first line. If you want to add material or make other changes to make it read more like other biographies just fire ahead and do that. 17:53, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't log in

When our IP address edits stuff it's usually me. I really don't like the way my username looks (I want it all lowercase) so I almost never log in.

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PNG Crusadebot processing JPGs

Should PNG Crusade Bot be processing BadJPGs? These images need to be remade or heavily cleaned up, not just converted to another format.Doodle77 22:44, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The PNG crusade bot only converts images that would benefit from a simple PNG conversion, so very few JPEGs are actually converted. Perhaps I should make the bot add the {{artifacts}} tag to converted JPEGs for good measure. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 01:02, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it should add the {{artifacts}} tag. Doodle77 21:06, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Taste

Hi -- when you're dealing with a new editor who has clearly been making a good-faith effort, even if the results are not very good, you ought to give a bit more feedback than "rv". People can learn but they won't if you slap them in the face. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 23:39, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for undoing this edit: 00:25, 18 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-6,753)‎ . . m False flag ‎ (→‎2008 Kurcha incident: citation needed). Oddly I don't remember making it at all. Either it was a mistake of mine or there is something more sinister going on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phantomsnake (talk • contribs) 02:37, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hart's inversor

Big thank you for your animations in the article Hart's inversor. The article is improved by so much with your animations.

I took the liberty to create a new category on commons:

What I also did is create/modify (using GIMP) and uploading an alternate version with white background.

In my personal humble opinion and experience, a white background color results in better thumbnails (and print outs on paper):

(as GIF is using a colour palette, changing colours around is a trivial task)

As for the article, I leave your original animation there, as I think that it is the choice of the original image creator to decide which image version he prefers to be used in the article. People visiting Wikipedia should be able to find the link to the commons category, where they can choice either background, depending on how they gone use the animation.

Again thank you - I know how much work such an animation can be. This very animation was long time due on my to do list, but I was unable to find a sufficient reference drawings/description.

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@MichaelFrey: The line edges are rough because the lines are still antialiased for a black background. I've added source files on Image:Hart's A-frame.gif and Image:Hart's Inversor.gif. You can open these up, change the background color (line styles -> background color), and make a new GIF (and maybe improve the others). You'll want to hide the references, normals, and constraints, and use Analyze->Trace Point to get the blue line. I'd be happy to make any other geometric animations if you know any that are needed. Doodle77 (talk) 19:17, 27 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your feedback. Also thank you for sharing the source files.

I created by reverse engineering my own version of those animations:

I personally prefer those bolder lines, as they still look good when scaled down.

I am using a geometric resolver that I have written on my own in javascript.

(my limitation in creating such animation is getting reference information/text books about more obscure linkages)

It also looks like as if commons:User:Wiki LIC is also busy working on the topic: [1]

Very interesting international cooperation we have going on here :-)

Three wikipedias, three authors (that happen to be able to create such animations) and one shared topic, communicating mainly in drawings and equations.

Either-way: It is great that we as authors and the wikipedia users now have a choice of different animations.

-- MichaelFrey (talk) 16:05, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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