G'evening everyone,
I am happy to inform you all that a national level Wikidata editing campaign on content related to India is being organized from from 21 February 2018 to 3 March 2018, marking International Mother Language Day and Open Data Day respectively. The campaign will be considered as active from "00:01 hrs on 21 February 2018" to "23:59 hrs on 3 March 2018", contributions on the content related to India will only be considered.
Event page: https://goo.gl/PmBLqJ
To participate: https://goo.gl/uWcCdU
Item lists: https://goo.gl/Yvbhoc
Note: We also have a limited fund to support community led activities as a part of the campaign. So if any editor is interested to organize a physical edit-a-thon, please let me know. The event has to be organized on or before 3 March 2018.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Greetings,
As it has already been notified about Wikigraphists Bootcamp in India, for training related to creation drawings, illustrations, diagrams, maps, graphs, bar charts etc. and to tune the images to meet the QI and FP criteria, please fill the survey form at: https://goo.gl/forms/JeyW7vDzGnYohdyv2. It'll help the organizers to assess the needs of the community, and plan accordingly. Please ignore if already done. <https://goo.gl/forms/JeyW7vDzGnYohdyv2>
For more information, please visit: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikigraphists_Bootcamp_(2018_India)
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Greetings,
I am planning for Wikigraphists Bootcamp in India, please fill out the survey form to help the organizers. Your responses will help organizers understand what level of demand there is for the event (how many people in your community think it is important that the event happens).
Survey form: https://goo.gl/forms/JeyW7vDzGnYohdyv2
To start with, English Wikipedia has a dedicated team of editors to work on computer generated images, illustrations, and maps. The platform is referred as the Graphics Lab <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab>, and the contributors are called Wikigraphists. Wikigraphists work to improve the quality of the images that have been proposed by the community. This involves work such as extracting key elements from photos, improving the color of images or emphasizing the main subject, stitching multiple images together and often vectorizing images — converting to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). They also create new drawings, diagrams and maps when requests are made to do so. The Graphics lab functions as Illustration workshop, Photography workshop, and Maps workshop, depending upon the type of request by a user.
However, the use of SVG format, and other above mentioned graphic techniques are not seen much seen in practice among the Indian community. The plan is to organize a bootcamp for 3–4 days to train the participants on the above said. The workshop will emphasize on the "Graphics lab" of Wikipedia, and the technicalities and image parameters of Quality images (QI) and Featured pictures (FP), on Wikimedia Commons. At the end of the day, the participants will turn out to have knowledge to create drawings, illustrations, diagrams, maps, graphs, bar charts etc. and get to know to how to tune the images to meet the QI and FP criteria.
Survey form: https://goo.gl/forms/JeyW7vDzGnYohdyv2
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Greetings,
Happy New Year to the Hindi Wikimedia community. I am planning into to apply for a project grant in "Round 1 2018 schedule" for the following project.
To start with, English Wikipedia has a dedicated team of editors to work on computer generated images, illustrations, and maps. The platform is referred as the Graphics Lab<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab>, and the contributors are called Wikigraphists. Wikigraphists work to improve the quality of the images that have been proposed by the community. This involves work such as extracting key elements from photos, improving the color of images or emphasizing the main subject, stitching multiple images together and often vectorizing images — converting to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). They also create new drawings, diagrams and maps when requests are made to do so. The Graphics lab functions Illustration workshop, Photography workshop, and Maps workshop, depending upon the type of request by a user.
However, the of use SVG format, and use of other above mentioned graphic techniques is not seen much seen in practice. The plan is to organize three workshops, three days each, at different cities in India (New Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru/Hyderabad). Each workshop will have emphasis on the "Graphics lab" of Wikipedia, and technicalities and image parameters of Quality and Featured images on Wikimedia Commons. These workshops will emphasize on training established Wikimedians (in and around the region) to create/improve illustrations, maps, and photographs. Also train on what goes in and out for Quality images, and Featured pictures on Wikimedia Commons. We will look for Indian trainers, otherwise if needed, we can invite experienced Wikigraphists<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Resources/Wikigraphist…>.
Hence, I request the community opinion and feedback/suggestion on this proposed idea.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
नमस्कार, दिल्ली सम्मेलन अब बहुत नजदीक है और कुछ ही दिन शेष है इसमें कई लोग
हिस्सा लेने वाले हैं, कृपया एक बार यह फॉर्म जरुर भरें - फॉर्म यहाँ
<https://goo.gl/forms/cmpBWRZDCfW66dqg2> हैं
यह फॉर्म *सिर्फ चयन किये गए सदस्यों के लिए है*।
दिल्ली सम्मेलन में चयन समिति के द्वारा छात्रवृत्ति के लिए चुने गए सदस्यों
की सूची निम्नलिखित है।
- Suyash.dwivedi
- राजू जांगिड
- Jayprakash12345
- आर्यावर्त
- Swapnil.Karambelkar
- J ansari
- कलमकार
- AbhiSuryawanshi
- आशीष भटनागर
- Sushma_Sharma
- Shreya.Bhopal
- Sukeerti.Bhopal
- बृजेशव्यास१५
- Prateekmalviya20
- अजीत कुमार तिवारी
- MKar
- हिंदुस्थान वासी
- Biplab Anand
- अनिरुद्ध!
- Anamdas
- Raavimohantydelhi
- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
- Shypoetess
- Abhinav Srivastava
- Innocentbunny
- shubham kanodiya
- संजीव कुमार
- yohannvt
- हरविंदर सिंह
Abhinav
नमस्ते,
We are delighted to inform that the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2018 programme
organised by CIS-A2K will be held from 26-28 January 2018, in Mysore,
Karnataka, India.
*What is TTT?*
Train the Trainer or TTT is a residential training program. The program
attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community
(including English) members. Earlier TTT have been conducted in 2013, 2015,
2016 and 2017.
*Who should join?*
An editor who is interested to conduct real-life and online Wiki-events
such as outreach, workshop, GLAM, edit-a-thon, photowalk etc.
Any active Wikimedian contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia project
is eligible to apply.
The editor must have 500+ global edits before 1 November 2017
Anyone who has already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, can not
apply.
Please see more about this program and apply to participate or encourage the
deserving candidates from your community to do so:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_
Trainer_Program/2018
Please consider sharing this workshop details with your community members.
If you have any question, please let us know.
Regards.
<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…>
Virus-free.
www.avast.com
<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…>
<#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Ravishankar Ayyakkannu* <rayyakkannu(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Launch of pilot project supporting Indian
language Wikipedias
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation, in partnership with Google and the Centre for
Internet and Society, is launching a pilot project to address local online
knowledge content gaps in India. The project is designed to engage and
support active Wikipedia volunteers to produce valuable new content in
local Indian languages. The pilot will run from November 2017 to May 2018
and will collaborate with Wikimedia India chapter, Wikimedia user groups,
and may involve up to ten Indian language Wikimedia communities based on
their interest and participation.
The overall goal of the project is to increase the number, depth, and
relevance of Wikipedia articles in Indian languages. We will evaluate
success along these dimensions and will share results with the Wikimedia
community after the pilot’s completion.
You can learn more about the pilot here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Progr…>
.
All the best,
Partnerships & Global Reach Team, Wikimedia Foundation
The Center for Internet and Society
Wikimedia India &
Indian language Wikipedia communities and User Groups
--
Regional Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia & Eastern Europe
Wikimedia Foundation
Mobile: +91-9986993336
Skype: ravidreams(a)gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ravidreams(a)gmail.com');>
Hello Wikimedians,
Hope this email will find you well.
We are happy to announce a new project of
C
IS-A2K called "Support an Admin". Admins play very important role in a
community, and very often, in addition to general editing work, they have
to do a lot of administrative works as well. In "Support an admin" project
we'll support an admin from a community by providing their internet bill
amount or giving library membership fees etc.
Points to note
a) This is the first step of the project, and we'll be working with a very
limited number of communities and projects at this moment. This project
won't support any focused language area as of now.
It won't provide infrastructural requirement.
b) Initially we are reaching out to these projects (in alphabetical order):
Bengali Wikisource, Hindi Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikisource, and Urdu
Wikipedia.
c) We'll provide support to one Wikimedian per project mentioned above.
d) The service will be continued till 30 June 2018, as of now.
e) Support will be given for 3 months to an admin, after that the service
may be given to some other admin of the project.
f) The recipients should be based in India.
g) The community will decide the recipient following a public discussion.
If you are interested, please let us know. We'll go to the next step and
will let you know more details about the process and requirements. Please
let us know if you have any question.
<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…>
Virus-free.
www.avast.com
<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…>
<#m_-3448395020982699465_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
