Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:38:53 UTC
This is a proposed feature I've discussed with some contributors on Common. Check out this category: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Texas_Highways All the images are nearly identical except for the number printed on them. If converted to SVGs, the only difference from one image to another would be the content of a single text tag (assuming the appropriate font is embedded if necessary). There are other images where only a single colour would change, or the position of a small red dot, or some other very minor element. These could all be supported by a scheme which allows users to supply parameters to SVGs using much the same syntax they use to supply them to templates. Symbols in the SVG file would be macro-expanded just prior to rendering. The cached version used would have to depend on the specific parameters. Here are some more examples where this feature would be very useful: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Autobahn_numbers http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bundesstra%C3%9Fen_numbers http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_of_Ugandan_districts Discussion here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#SVGs_with_arguments If you don't have time to do this, please at least advise roughly what might be involved. Thanks.
Not strictly a duplicate, but I'm merging this with general SVG editing anyway on Rob's orders. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5899 ***
