Thanks, Steinsplitter!
We really appreciate your call to action to address some of the multimedia issues you list below.
You will be glad to hear that our multimedia team is now shifting its focus to more of that technical debt and is taking on an upgrade of the Upload Wizard as our next big project for coming months.
We will keep you posted on major developments, but if you are interested in being more involved in this multimedia work, we invite you to join this mailing list, where we actively discuss current tasks, in partnership with community members:
You can also track our work on this planning board for our current development cycle:
We look forward to working with you and other community members to address these issues over time. :)
Be well,
Fabrice
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
FYI.
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 21:01:38 +0200
From: Steinsplitter Wiki <steinsplitter-wiki@live.com>
To: "wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org" <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Too much open bugs (Wikimedia Commons, Media storage)
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
I wanted to bring to your attention a few critical issues that are negatively affecting the workof the Commons community and the wider Wikimedia projects.
First, there are about 36 unresolved bugs [0] in the "Media storage" component. Swift is a vitalcomponent of the projects' ability to show images and other media, and it having so manyopen bugs causes serious ongoing issues, not only on Commons, but everywhere.
Some of these bugs are high priority, and have been open since 2012. The community of adminsare straining under the load, and it's not getting any better now that additional paths into theupload pipeline are becoming available.
UploadWizard, too, is fundamentally broken. There are a *lot* of open bugs [1] [2] and the interfaceis in need of design love.
It would be awesome to see these issues addressed in the coming months. In particular, becauseWiki Loves Monuments will start in September, it would be great to have these issues fixedon or before August 13th, giving Commons about two weeks to test the fixes and changesbefore the contest starts, and plenty of room for backporting urgent fixes.
Regards,Steinsplitter
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Steinsplitter
[0] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?component=Media%20storage&product=Wikimedia&resolution=---[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Commons:Upload_help/Archive[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?component=UploadWizard&product=MediaWiki%20extensions&resolution=---
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