File talk:Wikipedia's W.svg

Simplified SVG 2022-02-10

I just uploaded a newly simplified version of the SVG code, and I noticed that the image had previously been reverted to a much earlier version, so I wanted to explain my changes in more depth here in order to avoid them getting unnecessarily reversed.

Here is the full text of the SVG file I uploaded (with smaller indents in order to improve readability):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="128px" height="128px" viewBox="0 0 128 128" version="1.1">
  <metadata>
    <rdf:RDF>
      <dc:Image>
        <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
        <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage"/>
        <dc:title>
          <rdf:Bag>
            <rdf:li lang="en">Wikipedia's W</rdf:li>
            <rdf:li lang="es">W de Wikipédia</rdf:li>
          </rdf:Bag>
        </dc:title>
        <dc:description>
          <rdf:Bag>
            <rdf:li lang="en">The official Wikipedia favicon</rdf:li>
            <rdf:li lang="es">El favicono oficial de Wikipédia</rdf:li>
          </rdf:Bag>
        </dc:description>
        <dc:creator>
          <rdf:Bag>
            <rdf:li lang="en">
              <dc:title>Jonathan Hoefler</dc:title>
              <dc:description>The "W" originates from the Hoefler Text typeface by Jonathan Hoefler.</dc:description>
            </rdf:li>
            <rdf:li lang="en">
              <dc:title>STyx</dc:title>
              <dc:description>SVG document originally created by Wikimedia user STyx and uploaded on 25 June 2007</dc:description>
              <dc:date>2007-06-26</dc:date>
            </rdf:li>
          </rdf:Bag>
        </dc:creator>
        <dc:subject>
          <rdf:Bag>
            <rdf:li>Wikipedia</rdf:li>
            <rdf:li>favicon</rdf:li>
          </rdf:Bag>
        </dc:subject>
        <dc:rights>
          <rdf:Bag>
            <dc:description>This work is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.</dc:description>
            <dc:description>™ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. This file is (or includes) one of the official logos or designs used by the Wikimedia Foundation or by one of its projects. Use of the Wikimedia logos and trademarks is subject to the Wikimedia trademark policy and visual identity guidelines, and may require permission.</dc:description>
          </rdf:Bag>
        </dc:rights>
        <dc:publisher>
          <cc:Agent>
            <dc:title>Wikimedia Commons</dc:title>
          </cc:Agent>
        </dc:publisher>
      </dc:Image>
    </rdf:RDF>
  </metadata>
  <use id="V (Left)" x="3.02" y="23.909" xlink:href="#V"/>
  <use id="V (Right)" x="38.265" y="23.909" xlink:href="#V"/>
  <defs>
    <path id="V" d="M93.849,0l0,2.139c-2.822,0.501 -4.957,1.388 -6.407,2.659c-2.077,1.889 -4.525,4.779 -6.132,8.672l-32.685,66.712l-2.175,0l-32.813,-67.579c-1.528,-3.469 -3.606,-5.589 -4.233,-6.359c-0.979,-1.195 -2.184,-2.13 -3.614,-2.804c-1.431,-0.675 -3.361,-1.108 -5.79,-1.301l0,-2.139l31.928,0l-0,2.139c-3.683,0.347 -5.439,0.964 -6.537,1.85c-1.097,0.886 -1.645,2.023 -1.645,3.411c-0,1.927 0.901,4.933 2.703,9.018l24.233,45.959l23.692,-45.381c1.842,-4.47 3.37,-7.573 3.37,-9.307c0,-1.118 -0.568,-2.187 -1.705,-3.209c-1.136,-1.021 -2.422,-1.744 -5.125,-2.168c-0.196,-0.038 -0.529,-0.096 -1,-0.173l0,-2.139l23.935,0Z"/>
  </defs>
</svg>

The things I changed are as follows:

1. I removed a bunch of unused gradient definitions that were there for no discernible reason.
2. I removed Inkscape-specific metadata that had nothing to do with the document's use on Wikimedia Commons.
3. I reorganized and extended the RDF metadata to better match the metadata on the Wikimedia Commons description page.
4. Because the image consisted of two identical "V" figures, I replaced them with a single "V" figure definition (with the transform origin at the figure's top left) instantiated twice. (The image could just as easily be flatted into a single "W" figure, but this approach makes the SVG code more human-readable.)
5. Because the image was already black on a transparent background (the default for unstyled SVG figures) I removed all of the color information in the image in order to facilitate CSS styling (i.e. Dark Mode filters, etc.).

If you want to make further changes to this SVG document, please do so in a way that preserves the metadata and otherwise keeps the source code relatively human-readable. Thanks!

— IP-69-112-106-230 (talk) 21:53, 10 February 2022 (UTC)