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(a)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(a)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/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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