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!
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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Wikimedia Foundation
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