Hi folks,
Here’s another update on our global release of Media Viewer (1), which is rolling out as
smooth as silk. :)
1. This week’s releases
Today, we just enabled Media Viewer by default on the Kannada and Telugu Wikipedias, where
we plan to study image load performance in areas with slow connections. This Thursday, May
15, we plan to deploy on Wikimedia Commons, devoting an entire release to this important
site, so we can keep a close eye on this more complex deployment.
2. Next week’s release
The following Thursday, May 22, we plan to release on the English, German, Italian and
Russian Wikipedias, as well as WikiSources in all languages. If all goes well with these
releases, we then plan to deploy the tool on all wikis the following week, May 29, as
described in our release plan. (2)
3. Survey results
Survey responses from over 1,700 users are generally favorable, across 8 languages:
* 65% of all respondents find the tool useful, 28% do not find it useful, 7% are not sure
* approval rates keep growing (French approval grew from 64% to 70%, Hungarian surged from
42% to 59%)
* last week's releases show the most positive response (82% of Portuguese users like
the tool, vs. 79% of Spanish)
Learn more in our survey report (3) and detailed results (4). We’ll update these results
next week, and are looking for a volunteer to help with that work.
4. Metrics
We are now tracking about 4.3 million image views globally, across 22 sites, as shown in
our new global view dashboard (5).
* Most image views come from Spanish (28%), French (23%), Polish (11%), Japanese (9%),
Portuguese (8%) and Dutch (4%) Wikipedias.
* The most frequent actions are thumbnail clicks (60% of views), close button (53%), next
image (31%), history (21%) and previous image (13%)
* Images continue to open faster in Media Viewer (1.5 seconds) than in the previous method
of opening a separate file page (2.6 seconds)
* The longest image loads are about 2.8 seconds for 90% of our users, 4.8 seconds for the
95th percentile and 14.3 seconds for the 99th percentile
Learn more in our global metrics dashboards (6) and local dashboards (7) (be sure to click
on all the tabs).
5. Next steps
Thanks to survey results and onwiki discussions, we identified a short list of issues that
are important to our community, and have added them to our current development cycle
boards (8). They include: zoom link, easier ways to find info, larger commons icon,
disabling some images, support for multiple licenses, more tooltips and pre-rendering
images on the backend. We plan to gradually address the most pressing issues in coming
weeks, while resuming our work on technical debt and the upload wizard upgrade. We’ll keep
you posted on next week’s sprint goals after tomorrow's team meeting.
Thanks as always to all the community and team members who helped make Media Viewer
possible! This tool was created with active community participation from its early
planning phase -- all the way to its final release. This was a really productive
partnership, which we hope to build on for future projects.
Onward!
Fabrice
(1) About Media Viewer:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
(2) Large Wiki Releases:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Large_W…
(3) Survey Report:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Survey/Results_-_05-…
(4) Detailed Survey Results:
http://ur1.ca/ha662
(5) Global Image View Dashboard:
http://multimedia-metrics.wmflabs.org/graphs/mmv_image_views_global
(6) Global Actions / Performance Dashboards:
http://multimedia-metrics.wmflabs.org/dashboards/mmv
(7) Local Metrics Dashboards:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Metrics#Client-side
(8) Current Cycle Board:
http://ur1.ca/h7w5s
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)