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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