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
Dear Fabrice,
1) Please note that some issues like not going full-screen and showing metadata more prominently have been asked by community, but not yet addressed. I would appreciate if you could put them high on the to-do list, *prior* to deployment, as noted on the feedback page for Media Viewer.
2) Out of curiosity, how do to get feedback from the small non-English wikis you have on the deployment plan early? Those don't always even know how to report issues properly, bar doing so in English.
3) I would personally ask the community for permission to deploy, first, suggesting that they put effort into testing and discussing it first, and acknowledge that they appreciate it. Otherwise, if they disagree, they raise issues and you fix them as requested.
Regards, Gryllida.
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, at 7:00, Fabrice Florin wrote:
Hi folks,
I’m happy to let you know that Media Viewer has just deployed on our first pilot sites today!
- 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
- 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
- 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
Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
Multimedia mailing list Multimedia@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, at 10:24, Gryllida wrote:
Dear Fabrice,
...
- I would personally ask the community for permission to deploy, first, suggesting that they put effort into testing and discussing it first, and acknowledge that they appreciate it. Otherwise, if they disagree, they raise issues and you fix them as requested.
To clarify, there is a community discussion and consensus in place before enabling any new extension. Why WMF Engineering can bypass it is a wonder to me.
Gryllida.
On Apr 17, 2014 9:25 PM, "Gryllida" gryllida@fastmail.fm wrote:
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, at 10:24, Gryllida wrote:
Dear Fabrice,
...
- I would personally ask the community for permission to deploy,
first, suggesting that they put effort into testing and discussing it first, and acknowledge that they appreciate it. Otherwise, if they disagree, they raise issues and you fix them as requested.
To clarify, there is a community discussion and consensus in place before
enabling any new extension. Why WMF Engineering can bypass it is a wonder to me.
Gryllida.
Like https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Kocsmafal_(javaslatok)#K.C3.A9p...
I agree with your point generally, especially on small number of wiki rollouts. However the multimedia team has been making good efforts to ask permission first, and I think should be praised for going about this sort of thing the right way. Lets save the picking on people for not getting consensus first for the teams who really deserve it.
--bawolff
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, at 11:00, Brian Wolff wrote:
On Apr 17, 2014 9:25 PM, "Gryllida" gryllida@fastmail.fm wrote:
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, at 10:24, Gryllida wrote:
Dear Fabrice,
...
- I would personally ask the community for permission to deploy,
first, suggesting that they put effort into testing and discussing it first, and acknowledge that they appreciate it. Otherwise, if they disagree, they raise issues and you fix them as requested.
To clarify, there is a community discussion and consensus in place before enabling any new extension. Why WMF Engineering can bypass it is a wonder to me.
Gryllida.
Like https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Kocsmafal_(javaslatok)#K.C3.A9p...
I agree with your point generally, especially on small number of wiki rollouts. However the multimedia team has been making good efforts to ask permission first, and I think should be praised for going about this sort of thing the right way. Lets save the picking on people for not getting consensus first for the teams who really deserve it.
--bawolff
I concur that any Team that does this should be praised, and second your thoughts on this Team.
I hope to see this done on *every* wiki (you may need to do it in advance, as foreign language wikis may have a small community that takes weeks to collect some handful of votes and reach consencus).
Gryllida.
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Gryllida gryllida@fastmail.fm wrote:
I concur that any Team that does this should be praised, and second your thoughts on this Team.
:) It's always great to get positive feedback. The Multimedia team has done a wonderful job embracing the community liaisons and utilizing our ideas mixed with theirs to try to have the smoothest deployment possible.
I hope to see this done on *every* wiki (you may need to do it in advance, as foreign language wikis may have a small community that takes weeks to collect some handful of votes and reach consencus).
Gryllida.
Of course. I'd like to see it done on every wiki as well. However, something for you to consider is that every one of our communities is different. Not all vote. Not all poll. Some like to be walked through software enhancements/releases/changes, other prefer to be left alone with it and just tell them what they need to know. There is a delicate balance to communicating a product release and we're working on making sure the WMF has that balance. We could never find it without the participation of everyone, so thanks for that.
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