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A Multimedia Vision for 2016
by Fabrice Florin 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

Happy new year, everyone! Many thanks to all of you who contributed to our collective work on the multimedia front last year! We’re deeply grateful for all that you are doing to help create a richer media experience --- and now that we have a full multimedia team, we look forward to making some great progress together this year. To kick off the new year, we just posted a proposed multimedia vision for 2016, which was prepared with guidance from community members. We invite you to check it out here on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Multimedia_Features/Vision_2016 This hypothetical scenario is intended for discussion purposes, to help us visualize together possible improvements to our user experience over the next three years. This particular exploration proposes ways to integrate Wikipedia more closely with Commons, so that Wikipedians could contribute or curate more easily to our free media repository, wherever they are. After you’ve viewed the video, we would be grateful if you could share your feedback in this discussion: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Multimedia_Features/Vision_… In coming weeks, we will be starting new discussions focusing on some important features outlined in this overall vision, and would greatly appreciate your continued participation, so we can make more informed decisions together as a movement. More on this next week. Thanks again for your thoughtful guidance. We look forward to more collaborations with you! All the best, Fabrice on behalf of the WMF Multimedia Team _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation fflorin(a)wikimedia.org Wikipedia Profile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) Multimedia Project Hub: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia

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Eager to work with you guys for Gsoc
by Aalekh Nigam 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

HelloI am Aalekh Nigam <<"aalekhN">> i have gone through your roadmap page describing your future goals and expectations with Multimedia project........i found your project really cool and would love to work for it in coming GSOC (Google Summer Of Code) ......so can someone please guide me about how can i make contributions by being part of gsoc..... Thank YouAalekh NigamUndergraduate StudentNew Delhi,Indiausername:"aalekhN"

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Welcome, Gilles Dubuc to the WMF Multimedia team
by Rob Lanphier 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Hi everyone, I'm pleased to introduce Gilles Dubuc, who is a newly-arrived Senior Software Engineer and serving as Tech Lead for the Multimedia team here at WMF. We searched far and wide to find him, and we're thrilled to finally have him to filling this role. One of the biggest responsibilities of the Multimedia team is image handling on Commons and the other sites, and Gilles has a great background for this. His previous role was with deviantART, where he was for 4 1/2 years, leading teams responsible for building and maintaining components in dA's image uploading and handling infrastructure. Gilles earned his BA Information Technology Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II and a degree in Multimedia Systems/Computer Science from Napier University (the latter having a heavy emphasis on visual design and video production. In case you're wondering how he pronounces his first name, Gilles kindly updated Wiktionary for us, now complete with an audio file: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gilles :-) As for his last name, the IPA for it is /dybyk/ which would sound like "dewbook" (roughly). No particular emphasis on either syllable. Gilles will be working remotely from his home in Montpellier, France, though he'll be visiting the office the week of the Architecture Summit (January 21-24). I have to confess that I don't yet know Gilles well enough to know which celebrity image I can misappropriate as his photograph, and haven't yet captured a screencap an awkward moment in Hangouts to post on the staff page, but it's on my to-do list. Gilles is using "gi11es" (numbers instead of letters for the lowercase "L"s) on IRC, and is gilles(a)wikimedia.org Welcome Gilles! Rob

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Wiki Loves Monuments looks awesome in the new photo viewer
by Luis Villa 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

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# -- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6810 NOTICE: *This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical reasons I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.*

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Join our Multimedia Meetup - Next Monday, Dec. 9
by Fabrice Florin 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

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 _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia

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Join our Multimedia Roundtable
by Fabrice Florin 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

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 _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia

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Fwd: Help needed: Machine-readable metadata for local uploads
by Erik Moeller 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:05 PM Subject: Help needed: Machine-readable metadata for local uploads To: Wikitech Ambassadors <wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi folks, as of yesterday, the CommonsMetadata extension is active on all wikis. As the name suggests, it's optimized for providing API access to metadata for files on Commons, but it will also work for project-local uploads (e.g. fair use metadata on en.wp) -- provided that the templates used for describing metadata emit the same machine-readable information. The format for emitting such machine-readable metadata is documented here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Machine-readable_data The documentation page for the extension (which could use some cleanup & examples BTW) is at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CommonsMetadata Help modifying local templates accordingly is appreciated. All best, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

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Beta Features and Media Viewer Launch Worldwide
by Fabrice Florin 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

Hi folks, We're happy to let you know that the first version of Beta Features (1) has now been deployed worldwide on all wikis. Beta Features is a new program that lets you test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released widely. Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming changes and help designers and engineers make improvements based on their feedback. This first worldwide release includes these features: * Media Viewer — view images in large size (2) (7) * Typography Refresh — make text more readable (3) * Near this page — see what other pages are nearby (4) * VisualEditor Opt-in — edit pages without having to learn wiki code (5 - see below) * VisualEditor Formulæ — edit algebra or equations on your pages (6 - see below) (Note that Visual Editor Opt-in is only on a couple hundred sites where it was already available, but not enabled by default.) We invite you to test these new features on your sites and let us know what you think. You can share your feedback about this Beta Features program on its discussion page (8) -- or about individual features on their respective discussion pages (see links 2-6 below). And if you find any technical bugs, please report them on Bugzilla (9). We also invite you to join tomorrow's office hours IRC chat, this Friday, 22 November, 2013 at 18:00 UTC. (10) Many thanks to all the community and team members who made this program possible! We hope it can help us improve Wikipedia together and provide a better experience for all our users around the world. Enjoy, Fabrice -- on behalf of the Multimedia, Visual Editor and Design teams (1) About Beta Features: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer (2) About Media Viewer v0.1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer (3) About Typography Refresh: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update (4) About Nearby Pages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages (5) About Visual Editor Opt-in: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/General (6) About VisualEditor Formulæ: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae (7) Media Viewer - New Version 0.2: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo (This new version displays larger images, for a more immersive experience. It is now on MediaWiki.org only and will be released to all wikis in early December.) (8) Discuss Beta Features: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features (9) Report a Bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions… (10) Office hours IRC chat - Friday, 22 November at 18:00 UTC: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours P.S.: If any community member would like to hide the 'Beta' link in their personal menu, they can easily remove it by going to their personal style page [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] and pasting in this CSS rule on a line by itself: "#pt-betafeatures { display: none; }" (do not include the quotes). ____________________________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)

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Welcome, Aaron Arcos (volunteer!)
by Rob Lanphier 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

Hi everyone, I'm thrilled to announce that Aaron Arcos has agreed to volunteer for the Wikimedia Foundation as a developer with our Multimedia team through May. Aaron most recently worked at Google Switzerland (from 2005 until August 2013), where he was a frontend software engineer and UX designer on several projects such as AdWords Template Center, SafeSearchLock, GMail Themes and the recent GCalendar redesign. He also served as a process and release master, in charge of defining, improving and enforcing their development, testing and release processes, and taught classes at Google about project management, user experience and Google culture. He decided to leave Google, and to give back to the community in a number of ways, working for free for projects that do good for humanity (like us!) His first stop was at nairobits.com, a project that provides the economically-disadvantaged youth in Nairobi with web design and programming skills, teaching PHP and Javascript. He plans to return there in May. After that, he has other organizations that he'd like to work with. Prior to Google, Aaron worked at IMTF.com in Switzerland, Techasi Ingénierie in Paris, Yahoo! and Electronics for Imaging in the Bay Area. He earned his Masters in Computer Engineering at University of Washington and has a BS in Computer Engineering from UNAM in Mexico City. Aaron will be visiting the San Francisco office while he's volunteering for us. He's "aarcos" on Freenode (and will often be on #wikimedia-multimedia), and his email address is aarcos.wiki(a)gmail.com. Welcome Aaron! Rob

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Beta Features and Media Viewer now on Commons and Meta
by Fabrice Florin 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

Hi folks, I'm happy to let you know that Beta Features and Media Viewer have now been released on Commons and MetaWiki, in addition to MediaWiki.org! Beta Features (1) is a new program from the Wikimedia Foundation that lets you try out new features before they are released for everyone. Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on a broad scale, but in a way that's not disruptive. One of the first beta features we will be testing together is Media Viewer (2), which aims to improve the viewing experience by displaying images in larger size and with less clutter than the current file pages. This first version 0.1 is still in early stages of development, with many known bugs, but we invite community feedback right away for this feature, so we can improve it together in coming months. For a sneak peek at the next version 0.2 of the Media Viewer, check out these first mockups. (3) Beta Features and Media Viewer are now ready for early testing by logged-in users on Wikimedia Commons (4), on Meta.Wikimedia.org (5) and on MediaWiki.org (6). Based on test results, we aim to release these beta features on all wikis worldwide on 21 November, 2013. Here are some of the other beta features in our pipeline: • VisualEditor Formulæ — edit algebra or equations on your pages (only on MediaWiki.org) (7) • Typography Refresh — make text more readable (scheduled for first release Thursday, 14 November) (8) Would you like to try out Beta Features and Media Viewer now? After you log in, a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences'. Click on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click 'Save'. After you've tested Beta Features, please let us know what you think on this discussion page (9) -- or report any bugs here on Bugzilla. (10) You're also welcome to join tomorrow's IRC office hours chat on Friday, 8 November at 18:30 UTC. (11) Beta Features and Media Viewer were developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Multimedia team, in collaboration with the Design, Mobile and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, we will be adding new features to this experimental program every few weeks. We are very grateful to all the community and team members who made these projects possible — and look forward to many more productive collaborations in the future. :) Enjoy, and don't forget to let us know what you think! Fabrice [ 1 ] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/07/introducing-beta-features/ [ 2 ] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer [ 3 ] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer#Next_Version [ 4 ] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betaf… [ 5 ] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeat… [ 6 ] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatu… [ 7 ] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae [ 8 ] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update [ 9 ] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features [10] http://wmbug.com/new?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=BetaFeatures [11] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia

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