I am David Richfield, a South African chemical engineer / biochemist living in Germany. I'm also a founder member and former director of Wikimedia South Africa, the South African Wikimedia Chapter. I also created the parliament diagram tool, which is widely used to create diagrams for political articles on Wikipedia.
My username comes from IRC: "/me" is a shortcut which inserts your username.
I started work a while back on a tool to render svg diagrams for legislatures - I started out with a tool that spits out a rectangular diagram with a title and a legend. In May 2010, I saw some very nice arch-shaped diagrams drawn with
WP:GL/I. Instead of doing manual SVG conversion, I programmed a similar algorithm, which I now host on Wikimedia's Toolserver (link above). The source code is hosted at GitHub
- Bug reports, feature requests and patches are welcome!
The arch tool is quite popular for election results on Wikipedia, but the Westminster-style tool is still under development: a standard style has not yet been clarified, so if you use it, expect criticism and/or correction. If the output is not as you expect, consider editing with Inkscape and saving the result as a "plain SVG".
You can also upload the diagrams directly from the tool. You can see the most recent uploads here.
Here are some selected files. For a more complete list, with many more pictures, see my Commons uploads (or if you have javascript enabled, you can see them in a gallery view)
steroidogenic pathways. I made the first version of the svg from scratch; expanded, coloured and successfully shepherded through the featured pictures process by User:Mikael_Häggström
alpha software as of November 2014. I've also since bought a Canon EOS 600D. It's a very nice camera! I have had good success with macro photography using extension tubes
with the stock lens, but I later also bought a combination macro/telephoto lens.