Greetings!
We'd like to invite you to join our multimedia IRC chat 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(a)wikimedia.org
Wikipedia Profile:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
Greetings -- and welcome to our multimedia list!
As discussed last week on the Wikivideo-l list, all 90+ subscribers to that Wikivideo-l list have now been added to this new Multimedia mailing list.
The purpose of this new 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.
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.
In coming days, we will start posting here about some of our first plans for new multimedia features and infrastructure improvements, and hope to improve these plans and software tools with your help.
We welcome your comments, but please be civil and only post on the topic of multimedia. To contribute to this list, all you need to do is send an email to <multimedia(a)lists.wikimedia.org>.
You can manage your subscription to this list on this page:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
To learn more about our current work, visit this multimedia project hub:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia.
We look forward to some great conversations with you!
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
P.S.: Many thanks to TheHelpfulOne for setting up this list for us. Much appreciated!
Greetings!
I hope you're well and enjoying your summer.
It's been a month since we started our new multimedia program at the Wikimedia Foundation, and we'd like to give you a quick update about our work, as well as invite you to join some of our upcoming discussions.
Here's our monthly report on July's activities and upcoming projects:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia#Status
If you are going to Wikimania in Hong Kong this year, consider joining our roundtable discussion this Thursday, August 8th, at 10:00am local time:
http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Multimedia_Roundtable
We will also host another public discussion on IRC later this month, on Thursday, August 22nd, at 19:00 UTC:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
These discussions will bring together community members and developers to discuss how to create a better multimedia experience on Wikipedia and Commons. With your help, we plan to create new ways to view, contribute, curate, discover and use or share media files -- and grow our audio-visual knowledge base in the process.
We hope you can join one of these discussions, which we also plan to host on-wiki. Through these conversations, we aim to review current multimedia workflows on Commons and Wikipedia, and identify together some key issues and features that can help us grow our media ecosystem in coming years.
Thanks again for your interest in this project. We look forward to talking with you soon!
All the best,
Fabrice and the Multimedia Team
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
fflorin(a)wikimedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)