Nice initiative. Best wishes,
J. Balaji On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga < kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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