Hi Gilles,
I'm the new Product Manager for the Multimedia team, and I think honoring
Bassel in this way is a fantastic idea. We can certainly make this happen
on our end. Our initial release of the 3D upload feature only supports .stl
files though, and it seems like NEWPALMYRA is using .3dm files, so there
will need to be some conversion on their part (which is doable, as I
understand it).
I have had no interactions with the NEWPALMYRA team, so I'm not sure who to
contact. If you have info on guidance for that (or would like to lead
communication with them) that would be helpful.
I'll defer to Melody for process on how we can communicate this to the
public.
Thanks,
/Ramsey
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Gilles Dubuc <gilles(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I think there is an opportunity when this gets
deployed to Commons (soon,
I'm guessing?) to make a meaningful gesture and have the first 3D model
uploaded to Commons be one from the #NEWPALMYRA project
http://www.newpalmyra.org/ honoring Bassel Khartabil's memory. Bassel's
efforts to document endangered or lost Syrian monuments was part of the
inspiration that led me to implement the 3D extension at the Jerusalem
hackathon.
If you agree that this is a good idea, I think we should coordinate this
with the Communications department. And with #NEWPALMYRA, who can probably
advise us on which model to pick and what detailed attribution/description
should be attached to it.
I think the whole arc makes for a blog-worthy story, including the fact
that 3D support was picked from the community wishlist, which was the theme
of the Jerusalem hackathon. And the original task itself, before being
picked by the community to be part of the wishlist, is one of our oldest
open tasks, dating 2005:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3790
And we could invite people who have access to 3D printers to download and
print this very first 3D model in memory of Bassel (getting one printed for
the office would be nice too!).
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Heather Walls <hwalls(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
This is incredible, nice work!
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Awesome! And it's working across browsers,
even in Safari and IE. :)
I do notice many of the icons are missing in Edge and IE 11, though I'm
not sure whether this is due to a problem in 3d, media viewer, or resource
loader... Filed as
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176884
-- brion
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Matthias Mullie <mmullie(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Well... on our testwikis.
We still have to work out a few details before enabling 3D support on
Commons, but this is a major step towards getting there.
Mark just[1] uploaded[2] the 2 first STL files to these testwikis.
Please help us test and file a bug[3] if you experience issues.
Thanks to everyone involved in making this work!
Matthias
1:
https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Programmatically_cre
ated_crystal.stl
2:
https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Programmatically_cr
eated_crystal.stl
3:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/for
m/1/?projects=3D
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