Looks good to me On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 6:00 AM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga < [email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings, > > > Happy New Year to the Hindi 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikihi-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikihi-l > _______________________________________________ Wikihi-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikihi-l
