Hi folks,
I’m happy to let you know that Media Viewer has just deployed on our first pilot sites today!
1. First Pilots We just released Media Viewer enabled by default on Catalan, Hungarian and Korean Wikipedias, as well as English Wikivoyage. Next Thursday, we plan to deploy to more pilot sites: Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Hebrew, Polish, Romanian, Thai, Slovak, and Vietnamese. Try it out for yourself on the Hungarian Wikipedia: https://hu.wikipedia.org
2. First Metrics MediaWiki.org, we jumped from 100 image views per day to 1k/day, about a 10 x increase. And on Commons it was much higher, due to the ‘View Expanded’ button: from 240 image views per day to 24k/day yesterday — that’s a 100 x increase ! You can track the adoption of this tool on these first metrics dashboards. http://multimedia-metrics.wmflabs.org/dashboards/mmv
3. Share your feedback Please let us know what you think of Media Viewer — and join other beta users from around the world on this discussion page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
If you’re short on time, please take this quick survey to let us know how Media Viewer works for you: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/media-viewer-1?c=email
Many thanks to all the team and community members who made this launch possible!
Enjoy,
Fabrice — for the Multimedia Team
P.S.: If you haven’t tried Media Viewer yet, follow the test tips on this demo page on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo
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Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation