Greetings!

If you are interested in the Wikimedia Foundation's new multimedia initiative, we would like to invite you to join our Multimedia mailing list, which we started earlier this month.

The purpose of this mailing list is to discuss software tools that support the viewing, contribution, curation, discovery and use of multimedia content on Wikipedia, Commons and other MediaWiki projects.

Click here to learn more and subscribe to this multimedia list:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia

Participants include team members from the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as volunteers from the Wikipedia, Commons and other wiki communities. We all share an interest in adding images, sounds and videos to our free knowledge base.

And if you would like to chat live with our team, we also invite you to join our multimedia IRC discussion this Thursday, August 22 at 18:00 UTC (11:00am PDT), on this 'office hours' channel: #wikimedia-office .

During this one-hour chat, we will talk about our plans for multimedia in the coming year, as discussed during this Wikimania 2013 roundtable:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Roundtables/Roundtable_3

We would also like to discuss this proposed Media Viewer, as described here:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer

For more information about our new multimedia initiative, visit this project hub:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia

Thanks for your interest. We hope to speak with you soon!

All the best,

Fabrice and the Multimedia Team

P.S.: For more info on how to join this IRC chat, check this IRC office hours page:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours

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Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation fflorin@wikimedia.org

Wikipedia Profile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)