Hoi,
I refuse to post this link under the heading "the tragedy of Commons".
The Wikidatification is not a tragedy and it has taken a long time before
it actually started to happen in a manner that the WMF may adopt.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Commons
Remember, the most important part of it all is to make the data usable in
multiple languages and to improve finding images in Commons. All the rest
is not in scope for now.
Thanks,
GerardM
Hoi Gerard,
Interesting to hear that such planning and development "Wikidatification"
for media files is already underway. Would you mind giving us a link to
where that planning is taking place? Apologies if such a link has
previously been posted to this list.
Regards
Jonathan
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Hi all;
Since I watched the project Geograph Britain[1] long time ago, I dreamed
with a global version. I have been playing with maps (mostly Google Maps)
in the past years, but now that I'm migrating my tools to Wikimedia Labs, I
started to read about OpenStreetMap and Leaflet.
I have made some tests and coded a pretty alpha version of the concept.[2]
It shows circles of 500m radius for every geolocated image on Commons
(there are about 4 million). Not all are shown at the same time, but only
10,000 per zoom level. So you only have to make zoom on your city or in the
search box.
Some examples:
* Barcelona http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#12/41.3927/2.1407
* Moscow http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#10/55.7252/37.6290
* Montevideo http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#11/-34.8200/-56.2269
So, I would like to hear your opinions and suggestions about the idea of
scaling Wikimedia Commons into a project with at least 1 image per km2
globally.
The code is in GitHub[3] and it is forked merging 2 examples of the
thousands of Leaflet library examples available. Currently the code is
pretty simple and you can help to improve it.
Regards
[1] http://www.geograph.org.uk/
[2] http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/
[3] https://github.com/emijrp/commons-coverage
Hi folks,
We're happy to announce that Media Viewer is now live on all wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation!
Media Viewer is testing well on all remaining Wikipedias (e.g.: Chinese, Arabic, Hindu, Indonesian, etc.) and sister sites (e.g.: MetaWiki, Wikibooks, Wikiquotes, Wikiversity, Wiktionary).
The multimedia team worked hard in the last few weeks to develop a range of final features, in response to frequent community requests. We hope you will try them out and let us know what you think on the Media Viewer discussion page (1).
1. Features on All Wikis
These features are now available on all wikis as of today:
* View original file (#630)
* Scroll down to see more info (#697)
* Show Commons link to logged out users (#429)
* Easy opt-out for registered users (#703)
* Opt-out for anons (#704)
You can test these features on this Featured Pictures page. (2)
2. Features on MediaWiki.org only:
These features are now available on MediaWiki.org and will be deployed to all wikis in coming days:
* Make it easier to find image information (#706)
* Prominent links to different image sizes (#664)
* Add more tooltips to Media Viewer (#546)
* Disable MediaViewer for certain images (#511)
* Track 'View original file’ and ‘Commons link' clicks (#715, #726)
* Track Media Viewer Opt-outs (/#558, #675)
You can test these features on this demo page (3) — and learn more on the updated help page (4).
3. Features in development
Other tasks in development or analysis include:
* Show attribution credits in download tool (#598)
* Make 'Commons link' and 'Use this file' more discoverable (#732)
* Click on image in Media Viewer to help view original file (#712)
* Improve Media Viewer UI on tablets (zoom/scroll) (#716)
* Remember the last selection for ‘Use this file' (#660)
You can view more details about these features on our planning site. (5)
4. Feedback
We keep getting generally positive feedback worldwide, with these latest results: (6)
* A majority of global respondents find the tool useful (60% average across surveys)
* Cumulative approval by language: English 29%, French 70%, Spanish 78%, Dutch 59%, Portuguese 81%, German 28%, Hungarian 62%, Catalan 71%
* Daily approval rates have increased on English Wikipedia from about 23% a day after launch to 39% two weeks after launch (and German approval has also increased from 23% to 56% in the same period).
* We anticipate further approval increases on these sites, as more new features get rolled out in coming days, based on community feedback.
We are also starting to track the opt-out rates to see how many people turn off Media Viewer in their preferences. As of June 16, about 875 users had disabled this feature on the English Wikipedia, two weeks after launch: this represents about 0.34% of all registered users who viewed images on the site since launch. We are sorry that this small minority of users don’t like the tool, but we are glad that so many other users are finding it useful.
Please let us know what you think of these new features on our main discussion page (1). Which do you like most? least? Are there other must-have features that need to be developed right away, before we move on to other projects?
Thanks to all the community and team members for all you’ve done to make Media Viewer possible. :)
Onward!
Fabrice — for the Multimedia Team
(1) Discussion page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer#New_featu…
(2) Featured Pictures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures
(3) Demo page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo
(4) Help page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Multimedia/Media_Viewer
(5) Planning site:
http://ur1.ca/gtyrp
(6) Survey results:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Survey
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
Hello everyone,
This week, the multimedia team completed its planning for our next development cycle, which started on June 11 and ends on July 22, 2014.
Here are our plans for this 6-week cycle, which are informed by results of our last cycle.
1. Last Cycle Results
Here are our key accomplishments from the last cycle, which ended on June 10:
* released Media Viewer on most large wikis (25 million image views/day !)
* developed metrics system to track image views, key actions, image load and network performance
* collected 13k survey responses (~60% approval) and talk page feedback, processed comments to identify key issues
* developed final features and bug fixes based on community feedback (e.g. view original file, file page link, metadata visibility)
* solved critical bugs and technical debt for other multimedia tools (e.g. Image Scalers, GW Toolset, TimedMediaHandler)
* started Upload Wizard project: planning, bug fixes, code review, refactoring, metrics, user feedback, designs
* started Structured Data project: planning, discussions, research, code review
* defined annual plan for multimedia in 2014-15
We completed about 112 points in the last 6-week cycle (vs. 128 points in previous 6-week cycle, with 4 engineers instead of 3). That's about 19 points per week (or 15 points of planned development per week, excluding scope increase and meetings). Our estimated capacity for this new cycle is about 10.5 points/ week of planned development, as two of our engineers are taking vacations this cycle.
2. Next Cycle Goals
For this next 6-week cycle, we plan to wrap up the Media Viewer project and start work on our next two big projects for the coming year: Upload Wizard and Structured Data — while reserving about a third of our time to address critical bugs and technical debt for other multimedia tools.
This cycle, we propose to invest our time evenly between these main projects:
* Media Viewer - fix critical bugs, important feature tweaks (to address latest community feedback)
* Upload Wizard - planning and first steps (bug fixes, metrics, feedback, discussions, designs, code review, unit tests)
* Critical Bugs / Tech Debt - fix serious issues that need quick solutions (e.g. image scalers, GW toolset, timed media handler)
* Structured Data - planning with Wikidata and first steps (mockups, specifications, discussions, code review)
The Current Cycle wall now includes separate columns for Media Viewer (14-22 points), Structured Data (9 points), Tech Debt (18 points) and Upload Wizard (14-22 points). We don't expect to complete all these tasks in this cycle, as they exceed the anticipated team capacity for this period, but wanted to have the flexibility to choose between different options as circumstances dictate.
For an overview of the tasks we are planning on, read below or visit this updated cycle wall:
http://ur1.ca/h7w5s
3. Media Viewer
For our first two weekly sprints, our focus will be on these Media Viewer improvements, to address community concerns on English and German Wikipedias:
* View original file (#630)
* View different image sizes (#664)
* Scroll down to see more info (#697)
* Show Commons link to logged out users (#429)
* Instant Opt-out (#703)
* Opt-out for anons (#704)
* Add tooltips to Media Viewer (#546)
* Disable MediaViewer for certain images (#511)
The features above are expected to deploy on all wikis tomorrow. Many of them are live already on Media Viewer sites, and we are starting to hear positive responses on our talk pages, with survey approvals trending up for English and German users.
Other tasks in development or analysis include:
* Make it easier to find image information (#706)
* Show attribution credits in download tool (#598)
* Make 'Commons link' and 'Use this file' more discoverable (#732)
* Improve Media Viewer UI on tablets (zoom/scroll) (#716)
* Remember the last selection for ‘Use this file' (#660)
* Track Media Viewer Opt-outs (/#558, #675)
* Track 'View original file’ and ‘Commons link' clicks (#715, #726)
To learn more, click on the relevant cards in our current sprint wall:
http://ur1.ca/gtyrp
4. Upload Wizard
We have started planning and development on Upload Wizard, which will be our main user-facing project in the coming year. For now, we are focusing on metrics, feedback, bug fixes, unit tests, code refactoring and a few small user interface improvements.
Here are some of the tasks we plan to take on this cycle:
* Metrics & Funnel Analysis (#305, #541, #603, #587)
* Analyze user feedback for Upload Wizard (#624)
* Code Refactoring Plan (#344)
* UI Improvement Plan (#342)
* First Unit Tests (#70)
* Show progress bar during upload (#651)
* Upload Wizard FAQ links (#625)
To learn more, check out this updated project page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UploadWizard
5. Structured Data
We are starting to work with the Wikidata team to plan this project, which aims to provide machine-readable data for media files on Wikimedia Commons.
Our main activities this cycle include:
* Planning meetings with Wikidata
* Mockups and schemas for a new metadata structure
* Community discussions to understand user needs and workflows
* Definitions for a high-level class for image metadata
To learn more, check out this new project page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Structured_Data
6. Critical Bugs / Tech Debt
We will continue to allocate about a third of our time to address urgent bugs and technical debt to gradually improve our multimedia infrastructure.
Here are some tasks we are considering for this cycle:
* Create poolcounter group for expensive thumbnails (#623)
* Pre-render thumbnails in all sizes on the back-end (#301)
* Fix TimedMediaHandler resource loading (#543)
* Push messages to logstash from JS (#127)
* Create vagrant role for Commons (#632)
* TimedMediaHandler Improvements (e.g. #729)
* GW Toolset Improvements
To learn more, click on the relevant cards in our Technical Debt wall:
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards?favorit…
For a roadmap of our goals for these projects in future cycles, visit this planning page for 2014-2015:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/2014-15_Goals
Please let us know what you think of this plan — and if you have any questions or comments. You are invited to post your feedback on this mailing list, or on the discussion for this cycle plan page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Meetings/Next_Cycle_3_Q4_2013-14
We look forward to discussing these topics with some of you in coming weeks.
Onward!
Fabrice - for the Multimedia Team
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
Hi everyone,
To follow up on our earlier update on Media Viewer, I’m happy to report that we just deployed a range of new features today, based on community feedback.
1. New features
These features are now live on English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia and other Media Viewer sites:
• View original file: A prominent button to open the original image in your browser (#630)
• Show Commons link to logged out users: now all users can quickly access the file description page (#429)
• Scroll down for more info: Use either up or down arrows to open the metadata panel below the image (#697)
Try them out with these sample images (1) and let us know what you think using the built-in feedback tool in Media Viewer — or in this discussion page (2). You can find these new buttons at the lower right corner of the Media Viewer tool. All three features address frequent community requests — especially the ‘View original file’ button, which lets you use your browser to zoom in, or download images for re-use.
2. Next features
We're now working on these next features, to address other community requests:
• Instant Opt-out (#703) (*)
• Opt-out for anons (#704) (*)
• View different image sizes (#664)
• Add tooltips to Media Viewer (#546)
• Make it easier to find image information (#706)
• Disable MediaViewer for certain images (#511)
• Show attribution credits in download tool (#598)
The first two opt-out features asterisked above (*) can now be tested on MediaWiki.org, on this demo page (3) — open the metadata panel and scroll down to the bottom, then click ‘Disable Media Viewer’. To learn more about these features, click on the relevant cards on the current sprint wall of our planning site. (4)
We aim to deploy these next features on MediaWiki.org by next Thursday, then to all other sites the following week. To accelerate deployment, we may back-port the most important improvements to all Media Viewer sites next week, if they test well on production.
3. Next releases
We are preparing to deploy Media Viewer on all wikis next Thursday, June 19, if all goes well with the testing of these new features. We’ll keep you posted as the release date approaches.
4. Metrics
We are now logging about 24 million global image views per day for Media Viewer, doubling overall traffic since last week. The most active sites are the English Wikipedia (10M views/day), the German Wikipedia (3M views/day) and the Spanish Wikipedia (2M views/day), as shown on our global image view dashboard (5). Global network performance has remained stable, at about 2.5 seconds per image served for 90% of our users (~4 seconds for the 95th percentile) (6).
5. Surveys
We continue to see favorable global feedback across all surveys:
• about 60% of 13,891 global respondents find the tool useful, on average.
• approval breakdown by language: French 71%, Spanish 78%, Dutch 60%, Portuguese 81%, Hungarian 63%, English 29%, German 26%.
• approval rates have stabilized for all languages that have used the tool for over a month (excluding English and German).
• English and German approval rates are lower than other languages, partly because Media Viewer was only launched one week ago on their sites.
• English daily approval rates have increased from 23% a day after launch — up to 35% a week after launch.
We expect approval rates on Enwiki and Dewiki to keep increasing over time, as new features get rolled out based on community feedback. For comparison purposes, approvals on the Hungarian Wikipedia started at 42% and grew to 63% in just a few weeks, once we addressed the most important community issues. To learn more, visit the survey results page (7).
Please let us know if you have any questions. We’ll keep you posted on the next major developments.
Thanks to everyone who gave us constructive feedback in recent days: we really appreciate your guidance and look further to improving Media Viewer further in coming days, with your help. :)
Fabrice - for the Multimedia Team
(1) Sample Images on English Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures#mediaviewer/File:…
(2) Media Viewer Discussion:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer#New_featu…
(3) MediaWiki.org Test page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo
(4) Current Sprint Wall:
http://ur1.ca/hg4ws
(5) Global Image Views:
http://multimedia-metrics.wmflabs.org/graphs/mmv_image_views_global
(6) Global Network Performance:
http://multimedia-metrics.wmflabs.org/dashboards/mmv#overall_network_perfor…
(7) Survey Results
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Survey
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
Hi folks,
Thanks for all your helpful feedback about Media Viewer in recent days. We really appreciate your candid recommendations on our main discussion page (1), as well as on English and German Wikipedia pages — and survey comments confirm many of the issues you and other community members have raised.
The multimedia team is taking your feedback to heart, and we are sorry for any inconvenience caused by this tool. To respond quickly to the most frequent requests, we have now pushed back other projects to focus on Media Viewer for the next few weeks.
Here are some of the new features we are now developing for you, based on community suggestions.
1. Disable Media Viewer quickly:
* Instant Opt-in: A more prominent way for registered users to disable Media Viewer, without having to go to preferences. (#703)
* Opt-out for anons: An easy way for anonymous users to disable Media Viewer, using localstorage. (#704)
2. View images in larger/different sizes:
* View original file: A prominent button to open the original image in your browser, so you can zoom in to see its details, or download it for re-use. (#630)
* View different sizes: Prominent links to view images in different sizes from the Download panel, so you can open them in your browser. (#664)
3. Discover image information:
* Make it easier to find image information: Provide clear visual cues that more information is available, with links to open the metadata panel. (#706)
* Scrolling down to see more info: Use either up or down arrows to open the metadata panel below the image, to make it easier to find. (#697)
4. Edit / Learn more on Commons
* Show Commons link to logged out users: Show a prominent link to the Commons file page to all users, so they can learn more about this image. (#429)
5. Learn to use Media Viewer:
* Add tooltips to Media Viewer: Show more tooltips in Media Viewer, so that users can tell what each button will do. (#546)
You can view more details about these features on our planning site. (2)
We are working hard to get these changes completed by tomorrow, so we can test them before releasing them to production. If all goes well, we expect to deploy some of them to the English Wikipedia and other Media Viewer sites by Thursday evening. The rest of them will be deployed the following week.
Please let us know what you think on our main discussion page (1). Which of these features seem most useful to you? Are there other critical features that you think we should consider next?
Thanks again for all you’ve done already to make this a better product. We are grateful for all the constructive suggestions we’ve received for our community and look forward to improving Media Viewer together.
Onward!
Fabrice — for the Multimedia Team
(1) Media Viewer discussion page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer#New_featu…
(2) Media Viewer planning site:
http://ur1.ca/gtyrp
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
I am considering automating an upgrade of a large number of images
that I previously uploaded from the Imperial War Museum's (IWM)
website.[1] My original uploads were carefully selected to be public
domain by having expired Crown copyright (over 50 years old) and since
uploading a small number have been deleted on other grounds, most
notably those taken or created by members of the German military and
where the photographs were seized during the war and claimed by the UK
Ministry of Information.
Here's the rub - by doing this, the IWM may argue that I am bending
database rights by systematically accessing their website for
downloads. At the current time, the IWM make no statement with regard
to this aspect of copyright, see [2].
I am thinking of writing to the IWM's IP Manager (again) before
starting this upload/upgrade project, so that I can produce good faith
correspondence to protect myself if this is challenged in the future.
Any thoughts from fellow Commoners?
PS though I am pondering raising this on the Village Pump, I am
hesitant to do this yet, based on past experience I suspect someone
would prime the IWM as soon as I do so.
Links:
1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:F%C3%A6#Higher_resolution_IWM_…
2. http://www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/privacy-copyright
Fae
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faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
Here's an interesting project from the British Library - interesting
both because people may wish to enter (there's £25000 available), and
because it touches on a lot of the same questions we have about the
value and impact of content donations
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2014/03/tracking-pu…https://ictomorrow.innovateuk.org/web/digital-innovation-contest-data/briti…
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The British Library has a large and growing collection of material in
the public domain, available through online platforms, such as Flickr
(www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary) and Wikimedia Commons, for
anyone to use, remix and repurpose. However, once released online, the
British Library has little way of following that content as it is
re-used, which makes it difficult to measure any creative and economic
benefit.
The successful solution will allow public institutions to better
quantify and optimise the economic impact of releasing content into
the public domain (...)
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk