[Multimedia] Weekly Multimedia team update, 2014-04-03

Hi all, here is another update on what the Multimedia team is doing. We have missed a few updates recently, so in the highlights section I'll try to cover for the main events of the last four weeks. == Media Viewer == === User highlights === * The main focus of our work was to help people who want to reuse images in various ways. There is now a "Use this file" button at the bottom right corner which brings up various reuse options (a permanent link to the file, wikicode to put it in an article, HTML code to put it on a webpage, download in various sizes). This is still a work in progress; expect minor improvements in styling and wording, and better attribution information. * You might have noticed that the URL in the browser's address bar changes when you open an image in MediaViewer, and that this URL can be used to open the image in MediaViewer directly. Such links (e.g. [1]) now work on all sites and for all users, whether they enabled MediaViewer as a beta feature or not. (We don't promise that the current URLs will work for long, though - we are planning some breaking changes to make the URL format more user-friendly, such as not having spaces in the middle.) * MediaViewer has gotten more clever about which images to display - icons in templates are usually ignored. (This relies on templates having a .metadata class, like on enwiki.) * Partially transparent images now have a checkered background. === Developer highlights === * Appending ?download to a thumbnail URL will make it download instead of open (a Content-Disposition header will be set). * <img> elements now have data-file-width and data-file-height attributes with the width and height of the original file. (Cached pages are not purged automatically, so for a couple weeks these attributes might or might not be present on any given page.) * You can use mw.config.set('wgMediaViewerOnClick', false) to stop MediaViewer from catching clicks on images (there is a user preference that does the same, but this might be useful to disable it in specific circumstances only). You can also use mw.config.set('wgMediaViewer', false) to disable MediaViewer completely. === What we did last week === We fixed bug 63126 [2], made progress on the download functionality [3][4], enabled direct URLs for all [5], added an opt-out preference [6], improved UI responsiveness when clicking on an image [7][8][9] and picked bawolff's brain on the missing file description page bug [10]. === What we're gonna do this week === We will test and fix IE 9-11 support [11][12] (IE 8 and below is currently not supported by some of the libraries we use, which will take more effort to fix). We will continue improving the file reuse panel [13][14][15], show more prominent links to the file page [16][17], show a button to open MediViewer from the file description page [18], show a user survey [19], and improve our metrics [20][21][22][23]. === Release plans === We plan to enable MediaViewer for all users on mediawiki.org on April 10, and on the Catalan and Hungarian Wikipedias (and possibly other small-to-medium-sized wikis which requested it) on April 17. == UploadWizard == Anu's OPW project about OpenStreetMap integration officially finished last month, although the work is still ongoing; the report was sent to some mailing lists but I think this one was accidentally omitted. You can read it at [24]. == Process == In the past, we have set an ambitious schedule for work on MediaViewer, which resulted in other multimedia-related areas being completely abandoned unless someone else picked them up (thanks especially to Bryan Davis and Brian Wolff for doing that a lot!). This wasn't fair, and we are trying to change that - we are now experimenting with setting a few hours per week apart for code review and high priority bugs. We also set up a more visible reminder to make sure we don't miss more daily updates. == Comments == are, as always, welcome. If you think we did/are doing something wrong (or just want to praise us :), do not hesitate to reply. [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Featured_Pictures_of_Passeriformes#mediav… drinking.jpg [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63126 [3] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/363 [4] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/385 [5] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/266 [6] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/264 [7] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/248 [8] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/391 [9] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/293 [10] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32551 [11] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/230 [12] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/399 [13] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/379 [14] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/79 [15] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/386 [16] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/226 [17] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/270 [18] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/199 [19] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/261 [20] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/198 [21] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/378 [22] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/406 [23] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/149 [24] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2014-March/007054.html