Looks good to me
On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 6:00 AM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
kcvelaga(a)wikipedia.de> wrote:
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/Wikipediadia:
Graphics_Lab/Resources/Wikigraphist_abilities>.
Hence, I request the community opinion and feedback/suggestion on this
proposed idea.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
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