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