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 <[email protected]> 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/Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Resources/Wikigraphist_abilities>. > > > Hence, I request the community opinion and feedback/suggestion on this > proposed idea. > > > Regards, > > Krishna Chaitanya Velaga > > _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-BN mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-bn
