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Dubious activity edit
The users here on Wikimedia Commons who are pushing this anti-Inkscape nonsense are going overboard, and most of what they are doing is not helpful. SVG files are being stripped of all metadata for the dubious purpose of "saving space". It demonstrates a complete lack of understanding how files are stored on mass-storage devices, as file size reductions of a few hundred bytes or even a few thousand bytes usually have no effect whatsoever on the amount of disk space used.
If you are one of those individuals, I urge you to drop your Quixotic campaign against Inkscape and inform yourself about the consequences of your work before you proceed further and continue destroying the work of others. If you need unusually small SVG files for a personal project on a single-board computer with limited RAM and ROM, do your file-shrinking off-line and leave the existing Inkscape-generated Wikimedia Commons files alone.
Moreover, consider that some of the hand-coded SVG files that have been uploaded to Commons may pass W3C Validation and may even display properly in Wikimedia, but do not display properly in Inkscape. The W3C SVG Validator does not guarantee that an SVG file is correct, complete, and standards-compliant, and should not be relied upon. — Quicksilver@ 06:14, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
