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:{{U|M.Bitton}} Don't mind! Have fun! (is that the type of file that all you have to do is change one value in "text" to flip an area from one color to another?)[[User:Naraht|Naraht]] ([[User talk:Naraht|talk]]) 16:46, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

::{{Done}} {{re|Naraht}} Indeed. [[User:M.Bitton|M.Bitton]] ([[User talk:M.Bitton|talk]]) 23:51, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

== Mass-replace png with svg? ==

Hey, does anyone know if there is a method of (semi-)automatically replacing png images in articles with their equivalent SVG? I am thinking about re-making a map in SVG, which is a lot of work (but somewhat interesting), but I don't want to replace the image like 200 times in a dozen different wikipedias, which is a lot of work (and incredibly boring). So before I start the work, I'd like to know if this is effective. I have no interest in adding to the long list of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Top_200_images_which_have_a_vector_version_available_by_usage - I really don't.--[[Special:Contributions/91.64.209.25|91.64.209.25]] ([[User talk:91.64.209.25|talk]]) 19:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

: Yes, SVG maps can be scaled better, but good maps usually contains a lot of text, also curved text etc. and the wiki renderer often does not display the fonts correctly. As a cartographer I just don't want to keep several versions of maps which contains embedded text. They are useless when you need to update the maps. Then you have to place the text completely new. But you can only understand something so annoying if you have actually made maps by yourself. --[[User:Lencer|Lencer]] ([[User talk:Lencer|talk]]) 10:05, 22 March 2022 (UTC)