User talk:Treck08

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 18:15, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

SVG rather than PNG upload[edit]

Hi @Treck08:

Thanks for uploading graphic files related to SARS-Cov-2 variants.

But, as these files are graphic ones (text + simple drawings), can you please upload these files directly in .svg format ?

These files are candidates for future png to svg requests {{Convert to SVG}}, meaning duplicate work from the same external sources.

some files from your sources are easy to get in .svg and then directly upload to Commons in .svg (e.g. in https://covdb.stanford.edu/page/mutation-viewer/#omicron, click on "Download SVG")
other are more difficult to create. E.g. your file File:Mutations_SARS-CoV-2_B.1.1.529_Omicron_vs._VOC_%26_VOI.png, from https://outbreak.info/compare-lineages?gene=S requires more work. From svg text copy of the source text (source text of the html page) the text needs manual cleaning... (note: in your .png file, the legend is missing)
the third and last category are files that seems to be of your own: e.g. File:Pango_SARS-CoV-2_AB_Alpha-Beta-Gamma-Delta-Omicron.png, and will be even simpler to upload as .svg files.

Thanks for reading, yours, En rouge (talk) 14:42, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @En rouge:

Please feel free to overwrite/update the files with SVG. I thought there were problems with the SVG-versions of the former variants. I don't have experience with that format. I know that png is not the best, but I thought, it's better to upload PNG than nothing. Yours sincerely, --Treck08 (talk) 16:51, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I will add the legend next time. --Treck08 (talk) 11:56, 29 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Other maps—feedback on English labels[edit]

File:Map of subcamp system Kaufering - concentration camp.png

I would rephrase as: "cemetery in Igling-Holzhausen for those who died after the liberation" and the same for "cemetery in St. Ottilien for those...".
"Cemetery Kaufering Nord & Süd" appears to refer to two separate cemeteries, apparently called in German Friedhof Kaufering Nord and Friedhof Kaufering Süd. I would translate this as "Kaufering cemeteries (North and South)" or if using separate labels on the map, "Kaufering cemetery North" and "Kaufering cemetery South". As it is, it could be misinterpreted as one cemetery called "Nord & Süd".
When I first looked at the map, I was confused by the label "train to Dachau concentration camp / Schwabhausen (Weil)". After I looked on the dewiki article, I figured out that the cemetery is from people who died on the a transport from Kaufering to Dachau. I would recommend clarifying as "Schwabhausen (Weil) cemetery for deaths during a transport to Dachau" (specifying "Dachau concentration camp" is probably not necessary) Buidhe (talk) 11:34, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Buidhe Thank you so much. Done! Between the Kaufering cemeteries (North and South), there's only a distance of 50 to 100 meters. The North one is a little bit hidden. Normally, that would be only one big cemetery. In the two cemeteries, there seems to be buried 2000-2500 bodys each (examination of US army, with photos, in 1945, documents at "Dachau Hautprozesse"). In most of the explanations today, you only recognize 48 in the North, about 600 in the South, that's a crude german story of the 1950s, I think, continued to the 2020s. So the bodys are waning and the numbers are decreasing... In Germany, normally you don't know anything about the subcamp system of Kaufering, even if you are living in the near. --Treck08 (talk) 12:28, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

For the Flossenburg map, I think the following tweaks would be helpful:

"SS housing estate" or "SS housing" instead of "Settlement of SS"
I think "SS-K" refers to the Kommandant's office, but it would be preferable to spell it out if you can find space
"Atonement chapel" seems like the literal translation, but it sounds weird in English so I would change it to "memorial chapel".

Let me know if I can help with anything else! Buidhe (talk) 22:07, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Buidhe Done, and thanks a lot! --Treck08 (talk) 22:17, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your encyclopedically valuable maps of Nazi concentration camps! Buidhe (talk) 22:09, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

File:Warsaw Ghetto in color - Film 1942.webm[edit]

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