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>ab>, 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/Resou…es>.
Hence, I request the community opinion and feedback/suggestion on this proposed idea.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga