On 6/2/14, Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)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).
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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