Greetings!

Last week, the multimedia team had its first planning meeting for 2014-15 and we would like to share our proposed goals for the coming year (July 2014 to June 2015).

1. Goals

This year, we would like to focus on improving the contribution and editing workflows, while addressing our technical debt and fixing critical bugs. To that end, we aim to:

• engage more users to contribute media

• add more media content on our sites

• provide a smoother experience for all

• fix critical bugs to make things work better.

2. Users
Last year, we focused mostly on readers, with a focus on Media Viewer. This year, we propose to switch our focus to these users:

• contributors -- the people who upload media on our sites

• editors -- the people who add media on articles

Note that we aim to support both casual and experienced users within each group. We will initially focus on Commons users, then move on to serve more users on Wikipedia and other sites. Secondary user groups include admins, campaign organizers and developers.

• Structured Data: improve the way we store metadata — an important goal, because most other features depend on it.

• Critical Bugs: fix urgent bugs in our infrastructure -- and become more familiar with our entire code base, including:

- Image scalers, Core media handling, TimedMediaHandler, Media backend storage, Media Viewer, etc.

• Features: develop or improve user-facing projects, including:

- Upload Wizard -- our main user-facing project this year (includes Commons Upgrade and Modal Tool for other sites)

- Other Features -- Media Viewer 0.3, File Notifications, File Page, Kaltura Player Upgrade, Campaign Tools

• Q1: metrics, upload wizard fixes, structured data planning, bug fixes
• Q2: structured data on Commons, new upload features, bug fixes
• Q3: more structured data, modal upload tools, media viewer, notifications, bug fixes

Note that these first milestones may be adjusted in coming weeks (and will be updated on a quarterly basis), based on prior quarter's results, as well as community and team discussions. To that end, we invite you to leave your feedback on this plan’s discussion page.

We have now started our first phase of planning and development on Upload Wizard, and have prepared a first task list and proposed timeline on this updated project page:

In coming weeks, we will host focused community discussions about this Upload Wizard plan and its key features. We look forward to discussing some of the main challenges and solutions together. For now, please leave comments on that project’s discussion page.

Many thanks to all the community and team members who took the time to guide our work this year. We look forward to more great collaborations with you next year. :)