For anyone using Campaigns for non WLM things.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:34 AM Subject: Upgrade to UploadCampaigns To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org
Hello!
As part of upcoming work to be done to support use of UploadCampaigns from Mobile, I've spent time rewriting the underlying infrastructure for UploadCampaigns. This has no changes for people who use UploadWizard to just ''upload'' images, but plenty of changes for people who administer and maintain campaigns. The most important changes are:
* Campaigns are maintained by creating and modifying pages in a new Campaign: namespace. Special:UploadCampaign and Special:UploadCampaigns have been removed. * Pages in the Campaign: namespace have all the ''features'' of normal pages, and so have page history (solving [[bugzilla:30645]]), a talk page, can be watched/moved/deleted/undeleted, etc. * Full wikitext support in most fields - header/thanks labels (fixing [[bugzilla:39910]]) and in the field labels (solving [[bugzilla:39911]]). This should make customizations and internationalization simpler. * Arbitrary number of custom fields where the user can enter text while uploading, and such text is included in the uploaded image's description, are now supported (previously you were restricted to two fields) * As a negative, the GUI interface for configuring campaigns is now gone (temporarily). Currently the Campaign configuration is stored as [[:en:JSON|JSON]], which is edited by hand. There exists minimal validation so that corrupt data is not saved. A point and click interface would eventually be added at some point in the future. [[mw:Extension:UploadWizard/Campaigns|Documentation]] for the current JSON format exists.
This change is currently live on the [http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ commonsbeta] site, and can be tested there. This is on schedule to be rolled out to Commons on Monday, July 22 - unless large unforeseen bugs arise.
Thanks to MarkTraceur, Odder and Brion for their help in getting this done!
Special note for WLM: Since WLM is the biggest (almost only) user of campaigns right now, I'll be spending time to make sure that all the WLM campaigns work without issue.
-- Yuvi Panda T Mobile Team, Wikimedia Foundation http://yuvi.in/blog
-- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog
Exactly - I was thinking of museum collections, but it could be also something like a project to photograph the "West Highland Way" and other historical footpaths.
2013/7/16, Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com:
For anyone using Campaigns for non WLM things.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:34 AM Subject: Upgrade to UploadCampaigns To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org
Hello!
As part of upcoming work to be done to support use of UploadCampaigns from Mobile, I've spent time rewriting the underlying infrastructure for UploadCampaigns. This has no changes for people who use UploadWizard to just ''upload'' images, but plenty of changes for people who administer and maintain campaigns. The most important changes are:
- Campaigns are maintained by creating and modifying pages in a new
Campaign: namespace. Special:UploadCampaign and Special:UploadCampaigns have been removed.
- Pages in the Campaign: namespace have all the ''features'' of normal
pages, and so have page history (solving [[bugzilla:30645]]), a talk page, can be watched/moved/deleted/undeleted, etc.
- Full wikitext support in most fields - header/thanks labels (fixing
[[bugzilla:39910]]) and in the field labels (solving [[bugzilla:39911]]). This should make customizations and internationalization simpler.
- Arbitrary number of custom fields where the user can enter text
while uploading, and such text is included in the uploaded image's description, are now supported (previously you were restricted to two fields)
- As a negative, the GUI interface for configuring campaigns is now
gone (temporarily). Currently the Campaign configuration is stored as [[:en:JSON|JSON]], which is edited by hand. There exists minimal validation so that corrupt data is not saved. A point and click interface would eventually be added at some point in the future. [[mw:Extension:UploadWizard/Campaigns|Documentation]] for the current JSON format exists.
This change is currently live on the [http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ commonsbeta] site, and can be tested there. This is on schedule to be rolled out to Commons on Monday, July 22 - unless large unforeseen bugs arise.
Thanks to MarkTraceur, Odder and Brion for their help in getting this done!
Special note for WLM: Since WLM is the biggest (almost only) user of campaigns right now, I'll be spending time to make sure that all the WLM campaigns work without issue.
-- Yuvi Panda T Mobile Team, Wikimedia Foundation http://yuvi.in/blog
-- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog
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Hi folks,
We would like to invite you to join a community IRC chat on Multimedia, which we're hosting this Thursday, July 18th, at 18:00 UTC (11:00am PDT), on this 'office hours' channel: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
This one-hour online discussion will bring together community members and the foundation's new multimedia team to discuss our next steps for a better, media-rich experience on Wikipedia and Commons. During this chat, we will ask you how we can improve multimedia on our sites, as well as discuss these new feature ideas: • Media Viewer • File Notifications • File Feedback * New Gallery Layout
If you are interested in multimedia and have had any experience uploading media files, curating them or placing them on articles, we would love to hear from you. Please RSVP here if you are interested in joining, so we know how many people to expect: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Join_an_IRC_Chat_abou...
Even if you can't join this IRC chat, we'd be grateful if you could spread the word in your community, so we can attract a good mix of Commonists and Wikipedians to help us plan our next steps.
Thanks for your interest. Hope to speak with you soon!
All the best,
Fabrice and the Multimedia Team
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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)
Hi folks,
If you are interested in multimedia, we invite you to join our community IRC chat today at 18:00 UTC (11:00am PDT), on this 'office hours' channel: #wikimedia-office .
Our new multimedia team is hosting this one-hour chat to discuss our plans and first feature ideas with community members from Wikipedia, Commons and other wiki projects. You can read more about our current plans here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia
During this chat, we will ask you how we can improve your multimedia workflows, as well as discuss these new feature ideas: • Media Viewer • File Notifications • File Feedback * New Gallery Layout
To learn more about these projects, visit this feature ideas page -- where you are welcome to add comments:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Feature_ideas
Please RSVP here if you plan to join the chat, so we know how many people to expect:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Join_an_IRC_Chat_abou...
Even if you can't join this IRC chat, we'd be grateful if you could spread the word in your community, so we can attract a good mix of Commonists and Wikipedians to help us plan our next steps for this important program.
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)