I appreciate all of the comments; still unsure where to more persistently host the conversation, but for now I posted this still-arbitrary list on Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sj/multimedia>. (adding other items mentioned in this thread) SJ ~~~~ - *File formats*: Support high-demand formats – e.g. CSV, CML <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18491>, + hundreds of other <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297514> open tickets - *Uploads*: Improve bulk, large, and video uploads. + *Bulk conversion* for video uploads (videoconverter / video2commons are broken) + *Upload Wizard* upgrades (timeouts <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267492>, batch renaming, batch imports <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281599>) - *Downloads*: Fix multi-download (Imker <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Imker_(batch_download)> is broken) + Make public dumps <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298394> (stale since 2013) - *Video playback*: Debug + roll out the videojs <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248418> player - *Search*: Bring CQS back up <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297454>. Implement a noauth option <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297995> for tools - *General*: Move to a blazegraph alternative (for wqcs) + *Images*: Update thumbor <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216815> and librsvg <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193352> || redesign <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T28741> the image table *- Curation*: Simpler content assessment workflow, like en:wp's <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_assessment> (QI/VP doesn't scale)