== MediaViewer pilot ==
MediaViewer has been enabled Thursday last week on Czech, Estonian,
Finnish, Hebrew, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Thai and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
It has been enabled yesterday on Dutch and French Wikipedias.
For the whole release plan, see [1]. For survey results, see [2]
== Work done last week ==
More bugs that surfaced during the pilots have been fixed: behavior was
incorrect when localStorage is disabled by the user [3], Media Viewer would
eat clicks on PDF thumbnails [4], some non-CC images would get a CC icon
[5], article scroll issue when entering and exiting Media Viewer fast in
Chrome [6] and the wrong extension was shown for certain file types in the
"use this file" menu [7].
In order to improve Media Viewer performance further, we've started caching
API request responses [8] and preloading MediaViewer JS/CSS when the user
hovers their cursor over thumbnails long enough [9].
Many improvements were made to the limn dashboards [10], and we now have
one dashboard per pilot site [11][12][13][14][15]. We've also started
tracking new metrics [16][17] but delays due to a migration on the
EventLogging databases has prevented us from adding them to the limn
dashboards.
We continued the discussions on how to remedy the Image Scaler issues
during a meeting with Ops and Performance and came up with a list of tasks
to improve the situation [18], which the Multimedia team will take on this
cycle.
== Work planned for this week ==
We've just entered a new development 6-week cycle and Media Viewer focus
has been reduced from 100% to 1/3, since we are now only providing
launch/post-launch support and not developing new features. In addition to
Media Viewer, we are now dedicating 1/3 of our time to UploadWizard. And
1/3 of our time to technical debt, with a strong focus on Image Scaler
improvements, which has seen a recent outage related to GWToolset [19].
This week we intend to take on estimating the global effect of launching
Media Viewer to all users on bigger wikis [20]. We will take a stab at
cleaning up the gerrit backlog for UploadWizard [21]. We will start working
on the first task to resolve the Image Scaler/GWToolset issue [22].
We will continue improvements to the Media Viewer limn dashboards
[23][24][25][26]. And we will continue to fix bugs found during the Media
Viewer pilots [27][28][29][30][31][32][33] and implement small feature
improvements [34][35][36][37][38][39] based on survey feedback.
== Contact ==
As always, comments, criticism or suggestions are welcome, on this list, or
at the MediaViewer discussion page [40], or on the IRC channel
#wikimedia-multimedia@Freenode.
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Survey#Dashboards
[3]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/521
[4]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/497
[5]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/494
[6]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/486
[7]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/471
[8]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/435
[9]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/430
[10]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Metrics#Limn
[11]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/476
[12]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/526
[13]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/487
[14]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/507
[15]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/509
[16]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/515
[17]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/508
[18]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards?favorit…
[19]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GWToolset
[20]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/523
[21]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/542
[22]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/535
[23]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/506
[24]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/510
[25]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/529
[26]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/555
[27]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/513
[28]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/548
[29]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/485
[30]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/489
[31]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/512
[32]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/550
[33]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/553
[34]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/220
[35]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/249
[36]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/527
[37]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/530
[38]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/547
[39]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/490
[40]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer