Just wanted to drop a quick note to say that the Wiki Loves Monuments
winners[1] look great in the new gallery viewer. Thanks for the work folks
here have done!
Luis
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_winners#
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Greetings!
Can you help us create a better multimedia experience on Wikipedia and its sister sites?
If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, we'd like to invite you to join a special Multimedia Meetup at the Wikimedia Foundation, this Monday, December 9 at 6:30pm PST.
This one-hour event will bring together dozens of developers and community members to discuss how we can use images, sounds and videos to help people learn more effectively on our sites.
To join us, simply sign up here:
http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/123456892/
We will start our meeting by presenting a vision for multimedia in 2016 and ask you how we can improve it.
We will then demo and discuss these new projects together:
* media viewer
* file feedback
* new video formats
* campaign tools
As a group, we will brainstorm new ways to view, contribute, curate, discover and use media files on Wikipedia, and grow our audio-visual knowledge base in the process.
This is a great opportunity to meet our developers and network with other like-minded community members. And we'll be serving free drinks and pizza to make this even more fun for you. :)
Images, sounds and videos can engage users more deeply than text articles, and better support their individual learning styles. To that end, we aim to engage more users to collaborate through multimedia -- by improving their viewing experience, increasing their media contributions, and making it easier to use media in articles.
We look forward to your thoughts on how to make this vision happen together.
Thanks for your consideration. We hope to speak with you soon, so we can plan our next steps with your help. :)
All the best,
Fabrice
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia
Greetings!
I hope you're well and enjoying the start of the holiday season!
We'd like to invite you to join this week's roundtable discussion on Multimedia, this Wednesday, 4 December, at 18:00 UTC (10:00 am PST).
This two-hour video conference will involve up to 10 community members, along with WMF team members -- and will be hosted over Google Hangouts. Together, we will discuss a proposed vision for multimedia on our sites by 2016. We will then focus on several new projects we're working on: media viewer, file feedback, new video formats and campaign tools. We're looking to you for guidance about these new features.
We have a few seats left for this roundtable and would be grateful if you would join our discussion, so we can learn from your experience in this field. To sign up, simply respond to me by email (fflorin-at-wikimedia-dot-org) -- and/or add your name here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Roundtables/Roundtable_5#Sign_Up
To learn more, here's an overview of last week's roundtable:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Roundtables/Roundtable_4
This page includes links to slides, videos and our shared notepad for that roundtable -- and we'll be adding more notes and highlights in coming days. Kudos to all the community members who shared their insights during this fascinating discussion!
Thanks for your consideration. I hope to speak with you soon, so we can plan our next steps with your help. :)
All the best,
Fabrice
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia