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
Dear Wikipedians,
On 7th January 2018 (Sunday), Team Wiki loves Butterflies is going to
organise a daylong Butterfly walk at Botanical Garden, Howrah. We
cordially invite you to Join with us.
Please Sign up here https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WLB_Photo-walk_2018
To make the event a grand success, your presence and support is highly
solicited.
N.B. *Please bring quality water bottles like (Pearlpet, Hashpet,
Tupperware etc.) to avoid the throwing off of disposable bottles creating
Nature pollution and violation of the rule of the garden.*
Important link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Butterfly
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Regards,
Ananya
সুধী,
২০১৭ পশ্চিমবঙ্গের উইকিমিডিয়ানদের কাছে একটি ঘটনাবহুল বছর হয়ে রইল।
এই বছর আমাদের ইউজার গ্ৰুপ তৈরি হল। অনন্যার প্রজাপতির প্রকল্পের প্রথম ভাগ
যথেষ্ট প্রশংসা কুড়িয়ে দ্বিতীয় ভাগ শুরু হল। কলকাতার বাইরে এই প্রথম দুটি বড়
মাপের ফটো-ডকুমেন্টেশনের কাজ হল। একই বছর এই প্রথম তিনটি কলকাতা ফটো-ওয়াক হল।
উইকিসংকলনের দশম বার্ষিকী উপলক্ষে সাত মাস ব্যাপী প্রতিযোগিতা হল। দশ হাজারের
ওপর বেশি বই আপলোড হল। এই প্রথম পশ্চিমবঙ্গে উইকিডাটার কর্মশালা হল।
বিশ্বরূপদা কমন্সে ৫০০০০ ছবি আপলোড করলেন। বেশ কিছু নতুন উইকিমিডিয়ান যোগ
দিলেন। সীমিত ক্ষমতা সত্ত্বেও স্বল্প ব্যয়ে আমরা বিভিন্ন প্রকল্পে পরিমাণগত ও
গুণগতমান মান বৃদ্ধি করতে সক্ষম হয়েছি।
২০১৮তে প্রচুর নতুন প্রকল্পের সম্ভাবনা রয়েছে। আগের বছরের কাজ বাকি রয়েছে
কিছু, শীঘ্রই সেগুলো শেষ হবে আশা করি। ইউজার গ্ৰুপের প্রথম বার্ষিক রিপোর্ট ও
আর্থিক রিপোর্টও জমা দেওয়া হবে।
পশ্চিমবঙ্গের সকল সক্রিয় উইকিমিডিয়ানদের সম্মিলিত অবদান এই ভাবেই এগিয়ে নিয়ে
চলুক এই মুক্ত জ্ঞানের উৎসকে এই কামনা করি।
ধন্যবাদান্তে,
বোধিসত্ত্ব
Greetings,
Happy New Year to the West Bengal 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