Multimedia June 2014

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Media Viewer Just Launched on English and German Wikipedias

by Fabrice Florin

Hi folks, I’m happy to announce that we’ve just released Media Viewer on the English and German Wikipedias. We’ll keep you posted on the feedback we hear from these two important sites, but wanted you to know right away, so you can spread the word in your community. For now, you can check the discussions on both sites (1) (2), and on MediaWiki.org (3). And you will be able to track local metrics tomorrow (4). From an operations standpoint, our servers seem to be handling this surge well. And the survey responses continue to show steady approval for this feature (5). If all goes well with these releases, we then plan to deploy the tool on all wikis next week, as described in our release plan. (6) Note that we have updated the wording of the preference that lets you disable this feature, by unchecking the box called ‘Enable Media Viewer’ in the Files section of your Appearances tab. Learn more on the Media Viewer help page. (7) Many thanks 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 has been an exceptionally productive partnership, which we hope to build on for future projects. To be continued, Fabrice — for the Multimedia Team (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Media_View… (2) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe_Diskussion:Medienbetrachter (3) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer (4) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Metrics (5) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Survey (6) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan (7) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Multimedia/Media_Viewer

9 years, 6 months

Re: [Multimedia] [Commons-l] Multimedia Plan for 2014-15

by Fabrice Florin

Hi Jean-Fréderic and Alex, Thanks for your feedback! See my responses inline below. Fabrice On Jun 3, 2014, at 6:57 AM, Alex Brollo <alex.brollo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Please don't forget wikisource needs - t.i. djvu files support. :-) > > Alex > > Good point. We propose to take on support for other file formats like djvu, pdf and a/v in Q4, once we’ve completed the structured data and upload wizard projects. > > > 2014-06-03 10:38 GMT+02:00 Jean-Frédéric <jeanfrederic.wiki(a)gmail.com>: > Hi, > > • Q3: […] modal upload tools […] > > Could you elaborate on what this term encompass? From the MediaWiki pages, I gather that this is about providing upload/multimedia bits & pieces to be used in other tools like VE or the mobile site? What would be these bits and pieces exactly? Would they be made only to be used by Wikimedia tools, or should we see it as libraires to build stuff outside (like, for example, desktop upload tools, or image editing software addons) ? > The goal of this project is to make it easier to upload media from other places than the main upload wizard on Commons. For example, you should be able to upload a file from an article that needs more pictures, using a modal tool that pops up over that page. Here are some early mockups from the upload wizard planning slides (#21-25): https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Upload_Wizard_Slides.pdf&p… So this would consist of modular code and a user interface for basic upload functions on our sites, as well as cross-wiki upload support. Initially, we would focus on supporting the needs of other product teams that need this tool, starting with the Visual Editor, Flow and/or Mobile. Once we have it up and running for these first projects, we will evaluate their usefulness for other projects as well. We appreciate your forward-looking invitation to provide libraries for using this tool outside WMF features (e.g. desktop upload tools, or image editing software addons). We hope you can join one of our upcoming discussions to help us define this product further — with the understanding that we will need to move one step at a time :) > Thanks, > > -- > Jean-Frédéric > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)

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