Greetings,
Advance Happy New Year to the Telugu 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…>.
Hence, I request the community opinion and feedback/suggestion on this proposed idea.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Dear Indic Wikimedians,
As you are all aware, WMF and CIS-A2K have come together in a
partnership with Google to launch a pilot project to address local
online knowledge content gaps in India. In order to engage and support
active Wikipedia volunteers to produce valuable new content in local
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Indian language Wikimedia communities and User Groups
వికీమీడియన్లకు నమస్కారం (Hello to Wikimedians),
We are delighted to inform that the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2018 programme
organised by CIS-A2K will be held from 26-28 January 2018, in Mysore,
Karnataka, India.
*What is TTT?*
Train the Trainer or TTT is a residential training program. The program
attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community
(including English) members. Earlier TTT have been conducted in 2013, 2015,
2016 and 2017.
*Who should join?*
An editor who is interested to conduct real-life and online Wiki-events
such as outreach, workshop, GLAM, edit-a-thon, photowalk etc.
Any active Wikimedian contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia project
is eligible to apply.
The editor must have 500+ global edits before 1 November 2017
Anyone who has already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, can not
apply.
Please see more about this program and apply to participate or encourage the
deserving candidates from your community to do so:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_
Trainer_Program/2018
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