On 6/2/14, Fabrice Florin fflorin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Greetings!
Last week, the multimedia team had its first planning meeting for 2014-15 and we would like to share our proposed goals for the coming year (July 2014 to June 2015).
- Goals
This year, we would like to focus on improving the contribution and editing workflows, while addressing our technical debt and fixing critical bugs. To that end, we aim to: • engage more users to contribute media • add more media content on our sites • provide a smoother experience for all • fix critical bugs to make things work better.
- Users
Last year, we focused mostly on readers, with a focus on Media Viewer. This year, we propose to switch our focus to these users: • contributors -- the people who upload media on our sites • editors -- the people who add media on articles
Note that we aim to support both casual and experienced users within each group. We will initially focus on Commons users, then move on to serve more users on Wikipedia and other sites. Secondary user groups include admins, campaign organizers and developers.
"Editors" is a broad term. Often it is used to include many groups of people who don't add media to articles (e.g. People who delete inappropriate things, people who categorize files). Are we including them with "editors", or are we calling them something else (curators?). Developers is also an ambigious term encompassing multiple groups. When assumes you mean local js wizards? Or do you also include tool makers (as in tool labs), and people making third party upload tools. I assume you don't mean people interested in making multimedia related MediaWiki extensions.
- Activities
• Critical Bugs: fix urgent bugs in our infrastructure -- and become more familiar with our entire code base, including:
- Image scalers, Core media handling, TimedMediaHandler, Media backend
storage, Media Viewer, etc.
[..]
- Other Features -- Media Viewer 0.3, File Notifications, File Page,
Kaltura Player Upgrade, Campaign Tools
People have been saying that the kaltura player upgrade was going to be plopped into gerrit any day now for about the last six months. Do we have more information about what's going on with that and what sort of timeline it will be for it. I ask because the kaltura player update is going to replace an unknown portion of TimedMediaHandler code, so the pending nature of it means its blocking work on TimedMediaHandler, since not much point working on TimedMediaHandler if half the code is about to be replaced.
- Roadmap
We plan to spread out these activities throughout the coming year, as proposed in this rough timeline: • Q1: metrics, upload wizard fixes, structured data planning, bug fixes
From the linked page, "Multimedia Metrics - upload funnel analysis,
drop-off rate, UI clicks, # uploads, # uploaders, other upload tools, files used"
So this is going to exclude the types of metrics that GLAM folks are interested in? (From what I understand (I'm not sure about this, so correct me if I am wrong), glam folks are interested in page hits for media files (Currently we have hits for file description pages, but not the file assets) along with improvements/support for Magnus's glamourus thing and more query-able versions of the hourly page hits statistics in the vein of what Henrik does)
-- -bawolff