Hello everyone,
The SVG Training Campaign 2019
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SVG_Translation_Campaign_2019_in_India>
will start from 21 February 2019 (International Mother Language Day). It is
a 38-day long campaign to translate the SVG files into Indian languages for
use of regional language Wikipedias. After Wikigraphists Bootcamp in
September 2018, we had a good number of Wikimedians from India and
neighbouring countries, who were trained on using Inkscape and other tools,
to create vector illustrations (SVG is a file format for vector graphics,
like JPG for raster graphics). This campaign is a follow-up to that
project, and also with a goal to promote the idea of vector graphics among
the larger Indian community. Often, we see English-labelled SVG files being
used on Indian Wikipedias, this campaign also helps us to have localised
SVG files with labels in regional languages to be used on Wikipedias. I am
writing this email to invite you all to participate in the campaign, and
give some updates.
All the resources to enable you to participate in this campaign have been
listed at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SVG_Translation_Campaign_2019_in….
This includes a 24-min video tutorial to learn about translating SVGs using
Inkscape (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5OOZMIq-8A), steps to
participate in the campaign, Inkscape related resources, fonts to use
(download and install), and also dictionaries (please feel free to add your
language dictionaries to the page). We also have instructions for
Chromebooks about the same.
Lists of images for all languages are available at:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SVG_Translation_Campaign_2019_in….
For people to practice before the campaign starts on 21 February 2019,
there are also practice lists (20 images) to practice SVG translation. All
these can be accessed from the above mentioned "File list" page.
If you have questions or queries related to SVG translation, including
issues you face with the files, can be posted to the Help Desk at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:SVG_Translation_Campaign_20…,
or contact any of the language organisers listed at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SVG_Translation_Campaign_2019_in…
.
Please sign up as a participant at:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SVG_Translation_Campaign_2019_in…,
and you can the join the Telegram group for this campaign at,
https://t.me/joinchat/E1HSNhOXJZWnxus-36PuNA.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Best,
Krishna Chaitanya V.