Wikipedia:WikiProject Data Visualization

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WikiProject Data Visualization is a WikiProject about data graphics on Wikipedia.

Welcome to the WikiProject Data Visualization. The goals of the project are to create, embed, improve and update relevant datagraphics across the English Wikipedia.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Data Visualization: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2025-05-11 Expand : Adding relevant data graphics to articles if they are useful (see e.g. Category:Health by country and c:Category:Our World in Data) Update : outdated data graphics that are used in articles (see c:Category:Wikipedia updating and e.g. c:Category:Charts showing data through 2010) Verify : Making sure only data graphics with solid data sourcing are being used (see e.g. c:Help:Misinformation, especially the links to scans in it) Making sure data graphics have proper referencing if sourced from elsewhere Further activities : Creating requested data graphics and new data graphics using existing data sources Helping each other in creating data graphics (see the Talk page and the resources links below) Adding, updating or improving captions of data graphics and polishing how the graphics look like Anything related to the m:OWID Gadget Possibly various things related to the new Charts extension Technical development, bug reporting & ideas relating to data graphics (e.g. issues of OWIDImporter)

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  Urban population as a percentage of total population, 2020
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  Chart showing greenhouse gas emissions per person, by country, for countries with the most total emissions, with the area of each column showing total emissions
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  Rough timelines of domestication for 11 animal species
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  Halogenated gas concentrations 1978-present
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  Estimated number of deaths from malaria per 100,000 people per country
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  Global number of years of potential life lost, by pathogen and infectious syndrome, 2019

References

• Commons:Free media resources/Datagraphics
• c:Category:Data graphics, e.g. many charts and maps can be found in c:Category:Our World in Data
• Wikipedia:Graphs and charts
• Many studies contain data graphics, see c:Commons:Files from studies for information on how to find and upload them
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Conventions
• Wikimedia Commons already has many data graphics – see c:Category:Data graphics
• PubMed allows exporting results as csv with the "Download CSV" button in the top right for number of studies per year for the query.
• Free tools to create data graphics with (e.g. from csv files) include kst, Gnuplot, LabPlot, (add more here)
• Wikipedia:Timeline
• c:User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG, paste or enter your data into the spreadsheet which can then generate a column of XML code which you can save as an ".svg" file

Sign up if you're interested. To add yourself to the list of project participants, go to the Category:WikiProject Data Visualization participants page, and add your username there, or use the userbox below:

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{{User WikiProject Data Visualization}}	This user participates in WikiProject Data Visualization.	linked pages

• Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Resources/Charts
• WikiProjectMed:OWID
• phab:T336556 Code issue "All Graphs broken on Wikimedia wikis (due to security issue T336556)" – see Category:Pages with disabled graphs
• Template:Owidslider (Needs consensus before it can be activated, in ongoing development as of 2025)

• WikiProject Statistics