Hello everyone,
This seems to be a great workshop to me. Although I am very excited to take part in it, I am not sure if I will be considered eligible. How may one define "established Wikimedians" precisely?
Regards Siddhartha (Infobliss)
On 31-Dec-2017 3:53 PM, "abu Sayeed" ibnsayeed@gmail.com wrote:
that would be really helpful for the Bengali community. but I think, to spread the project, more than 1 round project is needed in Bangladesh and India.
On 12/31/17, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga kcvelaga@wikipedia.de wrote:
Greetings,
Advance Happy New Year to the Bengali 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_abilities>.
Hence, I request the community opinion and feedback/suggestion on this proposed idea.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
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