Hi folks,

Here’s another update on our global release of Media Viewer (1), which is rolling out as smooth as silk. :)

1. This week’s releases
Today, we just enabled Media Viewer by default on the Kannada and Telugu Wikipedias, where we plan to study image load performance in areas with slow connections. This Thursday, May 15, we plan to deploy on Wikimedia Commons, devoting an entire release to this important site, so we can keep a close eye on this more complex deployment.

2. Next week’s release
The following Thursday, May 22, we plan to release on the English, German, Italian and Russian Wikipedias, as well as WikiSources in all languages. If all goes well with these releases, we then plan to deploy the tool on all wikis the following week, May 29, as described in our release plan. (2)

3. Survey results
Survey responses from over 1,700 users are generally favorable, across 8 languages:
* 65% of all respondents find the tool useful, 28% do not find it useful, 7% are not sure
* approval rates keep growing (French approval grew from 64% to 70%, Hungarian surged from 42% to 59%)
* last week's releases show the most positive response (82% of Portuguese users like the tool, vs. 79% of Spanish)
Learn more in our survey report (3) and detailed results (4). We’ll update these results next week, and are looking for a volunteer to help with that work.

4. Metrics
We are now tracking about 4.3 million image views globally, across 22 sites, as shown in our new global view dashboard (5).
* Most image views come from Spanish (28%), French (23%), Polish (11%), Japanese (9%), Portuguese (8%) and Dutch (4%) Wikipedias.
* The most frequent actions are thumbnail clicks (60% of views), close button (53%), next image (31%), history (21%) and previous image (13%)
* Images continue to open faster in Media Viewer (1.5 seconds) than in the previous method of opening a separate file page (2.6 seconds)
* The longest image loads are about 2.8 seconds for 90% of our users, 4.8 seconds for the 95th percentile and 14.3 seconds for the 99th percentile
Learn more in our global metrics dashboards (6) and local dashboards (7) (be sure to click on all the tabs).

5. Next steps
Thanks to survey results and onwiki discussions, we identified a short list of issues that are important to our community, and have added them to our current development cycle boards (8). They include: zoom link, easier ways to find info, larger commons icon, disabling some images, support for multiple licenses, more tooltips and pre-rendering images on the backend. We plan to gradually address the most pressing issues in coming weeks, while resuming our work on technical debt and the upload wizard upgrade. We’ll keep you posted on next week’s sprint goals after tomorrow's team meeting.