Hi,
I have a nice little project to share. Our graphic design students have been improving some of the information graphics in the Wikipedia articles. The work was done as part of their Information Design class. The teachers of the class wrote about the class and its results in here:
http://informaatiomuotoilu.fi/2012/03/student-works-from-our-course-part-i/
I think this is a good example of running Wikipedia Education Program / Wikipedia Academy kind of activities in art and design schools. Please copy!
- Teemu
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That's great stuff, thanks for letting the list know about it. Wikipedia may have squashed Encarta and put Britannica on its heels, but those encyclopedias had the edge with multimedia and professional infographics.
This is a wonderful step forward and I hope we'll see more.
-Andrew
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Leinonen Teemu teemu.leinonen@aalto.fiwrote:
Hi,
I have a nice little project to share. Our graphic design students have been improving some of the information graphics in the Wikipedia articles. The work was done as part of their Information Design class. The teachers of the class wrote about the class and its results in here:
http://informaatiomuotoilu.fi/2012/03/student-works-from-our-course-part-i/
I think this is a good example of running Wikipedia Education Program / Wikipedia Academy kind of activities in art and design schools. Please copy!
- Teemu
Teemu Leinonen http://www.uiah.fi/~tleinone/ +358 50 351 6796 Media Lab http://mlab.uiah.fi Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
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On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Leinonen Teemu teemu.leinonen@aalto.fiwrote:
Hi,
I have a nice little project to share. Our graphic design students have been improving some of the information graphics in the Wikipedia articles. The work was done as part of their Information Design class. The teachers of the class wrote about the class and its results in here:
http://informaatiomuotoilu.fi/2012/03/student-works-from-our-course-part-i/
I think this is a good example of running Wikipedia Education Program / Wikipedia Academy kind of activities in art and design schools. Please copy!
- Teemu
These are fantastic. I don't see them on (EN) articles or Commons yet, though it's easy to miss... do the students need help uploading etc?
Steven
Steven Walling, 06/04/2012 00:39:
These are fantastic. I don't see them on (EN) articles or Commons yet, though it's easy to miss... do the students need help uploading etc?
All those images are hotlinked from Commons, or are we talking about different things? Some of them are in articles but could be made more prominent.
David Richfield, 06/04/2012 20:23:
Can we please also have information on how to update them, and source files? It's good to have brilliant graphics, but also very important to be able to recreate them.
I guess not all students followed the best practice (and more will next time): some of those images are SVG.
Nemo
Can we please also have information on how to update them, and source files? It's good to have brilliant graphics, but also very important to be able to recreate them.
I guess not all students followed the best practice (and more will next time): some of those images are SVG.
That's a good first step, but beyond just saving them as SVG, which is important, it would be great to have instructions on how they were made: what software was used? How can one create a new, updated version when the data changes?
For example, see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_with_Gnuplot_source_code - these pictures can be recreated easily.
Kind regards,
Very good stuff!
Can we please also have information on how to update them, and source files? It's good to have brilliant graphics, but also very important to be able to recreate them.
By the way, in the same breath, let me plug my basic, simple, parliament diagram creator (which writes svg files). I'd be very excited to hear from people who want to use and improve it, or even have a better free tool which supersedes it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Slashme#Parliament_diagram_tool
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