Dear All,
Please find here [1] a link to our draft Progress Report. This report will
be further reviewed for language, metrics, and other visualisation before
submission. We would like to thank you for the support during the drafting
of this report.
Do let us know if there is anything else,
[1]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/
2016-2017_round_2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Progress_report_form
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V(ಅನಂತ್)*
Programme Associate
Access to Knowledge program
The Centre for Internet & Society
+91-9739811664
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ధన్యవాదాలతో,
పవన్ సంతోష్,
కమ్యూనిటీ అడ్వొకేట్,
యాక్సెస్ టు నాలెడ్జ్ ప్రోగ్రాం,
సెంటర్ ఫర్ ఇంటర్నెట్ అండ్ సొసైటీ.
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
Greetings,
Advance Happy New Year to the Telugu 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
Dear Indic Wikimedians,
As you are all aware, WMF and CIS-A2K have come together in a
partnership with Google to launch a pilot project to address local
online knowledge content gaps in India. In order to engage and support
active Wikipedia volunteers to produce valuable new content in local
Indian languages, we are conducting a needs assessment survey. The aim
of this survey is to understand the needs of the Indic Wikimedia
community and ascertaining their infrastructure requirements that we can
fulfill during the course of this project. Please help us by
participating in the survey below:
https://goo.gl/forms/Pinthff3OumSn1Ke2
We request you to share this survey across your communities, user groups
and network of fellow Indic Wikimedians.
Please do share your valuable suggestions with us and sign up on the
meta page below:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Progr…
Regards,
The Center for Internet and Society - Access to Knowledge
Partnerships & Global Reach Team, Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia India &
Indian language Wikimedia communities and User Groups
వికీమీడియన్లకు నమస్కారం (Hello to Wikimedians),
We are delighted to inform that the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2018 programme
organised by CIS-A2K will be held from 26-28 January 2018, in Mysore,
Karnataka, India.
*What is TTT?*
Train the Trainer or TTT is a residential training program. The program
attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community
(including English) members. Earlier TTT have been conducted in 2013, 2015,
2016 and 2017.
*Who should join?*
An editor who is interested to conduct real-life and online Wiki-events
such as outreach, workshop, GLAM, edit-a-thon, photowalk etc.
Any active Wikimedian contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia project
is eligible to apply.
The editor must have 500+ global edits before 1 November 2017
Anyone who has already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, can not
apply.
Please see more about this program and apply to participate or encourage the
deserving candidates from your community to do so:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_
Trainer_Program/2018
Please consider sharing this workshop details with your community members.
If you have any question, please let us know.
Thanks
Tito Dutta
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Hi,
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Partnerships & Global Reach team,
we invite all Indian Wikimedia communities to our office hours to discuss
our India partnerships plan for 2017-18
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach/India_Partnerships_plan>.
Meeting Details
Date: Saturday, 30th September 2017
Time: 15:00 UTC/20:30 IST
Duration: 90 minutes
Language: English
Location: Google Hangout
<https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/rayyakkannu?authuser=0>
Please join 15 minutes before the scheduled time to sort out possible
technical issues.
Agenda
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Presenting India Partnerships plan 2017-18
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Introducing a content creation partnership for Indian languages
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Q&A
Please feel free to add your questions, comments, and expectations in this
etherpad <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/P%26GR_India_Office_hours>
document. You can also reach out to rayyakkannu(a)wikimedia.org for any
clarification. Please share this invitation in community social media
channels to spread the word.
Thanks,
Ravi
Regional Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia & Eastern Europe
Wikimedia Foundation
Mobile: +91-9986993336
Skype: ravidreams(a)gmail.com
Dear Wikimedians,
Greetings from CIS-A2K!
We are glad to inform that CIS-A2K has published our newsletter for the months of June and July 2017.
In June, we held our first regional Wikidata Workshop, “Wikidata Workshop: South India”, wherein existing Wikimedians from the five Southern states were given an introduction to Wikidata. CIS-A2K has also been working with the Annamayya Library in Guntur and in doing so, Tallapaka Pada Sahityam, a compilation of over fourteen thousand Telugu compositions is now being made available on Wikisource. In addition to supporting the Odia Wikipedians' Asian Athletics Championship Edit-a-thon, we also helped conduct a local diversity themed edit-a-thon in Satara, Maharashtra.
In July, an introductory Telugu Wikisource Workshop was held in Hyderabad in conjunction with NTR Trust. A Wikipedia orientation workshop was held for the students of V.P. Institute of Management Studies and Research, Sangli, Maharashtra who showed great interest in inculcating Wikipedia based assignments into their academic curriculum. In addition to facilitating the Punjabi Wikimedians' Wikimedia Strategy Meeting, CIS-A2K also hosted a template workshop for Kannada Wikimedians in Bengaluru.
Please read the complete newsletter here:
[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/June_2017 | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/June_2017 ]
[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/May_2017 | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/July_2017 ]
All previous newsletters of CIS-A2K may be read here:
[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletterds | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletters ]
Warmest regards,
CIS-A2K