Hi everyone,
Keegan and I reviewed our release plan for Media Viewer today and would like to update it based on community feedback.
We propose to spread out the release to large wikis over the next 3 weeks, so we can better focus on each community’s needs. Next week, we would like to deploy on the French and Dutch Wikipedias, and carefully evaluate the performance and community feedback on these first large sites.
At the request of our community partners, we would like to push back to the following week the release to Portuguese, Swedish and a few other wikis. This will give their users two weeks to test it out in beta and and give us more feedback — and it will enable us to carefully review the performance and community response on our first large wikis and pilot sites before deploying widely on a lot of large wikis. And a week later, we would release to English, German, Italian and Russian, which are likely to require more community interaction.
Here is the updated schedule we recommend:
• May 1: Dutch and French Wikipedias
• May 8: Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu? Wikipedias, Wikimedia Commons
• May 15: English, German, Italian and Russian Wikipedias
• May 22: Enable by default on all wikis
Does this plan work for you? Any comments or recommendations?
You can read more here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Large_Wi...
We’ve added links to local pages or surveys on many of these sites. If we are missing a link to an important announcement or discussion, you are welcome to add it on this page. :)
Thanks for all your help with this project. Have a wonderful weekend!
Fabrice
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Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation
On Sat, 26 Apr 2014, at 5:38, Fabrice Florin wrote:
Hi everyone,
Keegan and I reviewed our release plan for Media Viewer today and would like to update it based on community feedback.
We propose to spread out the release to large wikis over the next 3 weeks, so we can better focus on each community’s needs. Next week, we would like to deploy on the French and Dutch Wikipedias, and carefully evaluate the performance and community feedback on these first large sites.
At the request of our community partners, we would like to push back to the following week the release to Portuguese, Swedish and a few other wikis. This will give their users two weeks to test it out in beta and and give us more feedback — and it will enable us to carefully review the performance and community response on our first large wikis and pilot sites before deploying widely on a lot of large wikis. And a week later, we would release to English, German, Italian and Russian, which are likely to require more community interaction.
Here is the updated schedule we recommend:
• May 1: Dutch and French Wikipedias
Did you ask them whether the community wants it? Could you please share an URL?
Gryllida.
Hey Gryllida,
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Gryllida gryllida@fastmail.fm wrote:
Did you ask them whether the community wants it? Could you please share an URL?
Gryllida.
As bawolff mentioned before in an earlier thread, we're doing extensive community outreach for these releases to our mid-to-large sites.
Dutch announcement by User:Romaine - https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_kroeg#Nieuwe_mediaviewer French announcement by User:Binabik - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro/24_avril_2014#Activat...
You can also follow our release plan where we are tracking release announcements - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Releases
Thanks.
Hi,
On Tue, 29 Apr 2014, at 8:08, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
Hey Gryllida,
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Gryllida gryllida@fastmail.fm wrote:
Did you ask them whether the community wants it? Could you please share an URL?
Gryllida.
As bawolff mentioned before in an earlier thread, we're doing extensive community outreach for these releases to our mid-to-large sites.
Dutch announcement by User:Romaine - https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_kroeg#Nieuwe_mediaviewer French announcement by User:Binabik - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro/24_avril_2014#Activat...
You can also follow our release plan where we are tracking release announcements - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Releases
Thanks.
-- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation
Great, thanks!! :-)
Gryllida.
Hello again,
We have one more release update for Media Viewer, based on today’s discussions with our deployment and engineering teams.
They recommend that we devote an entire release to Wikimedia Commons on May 15, because it is is a more complex deployment, which we want to track more closely. As a result, we will push back the release to other large wikis by a week, with the final release to all wikis taking place at the end of May, if all goes well. Next week’s release will take place as planned, except that it will not include Wikimedia Commons.
Here is the updated schedule:
• May 8: Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Telugu Wikipedias
• May 15: Wikimedia Commons
• May 22: English, German, Italian and Russian Wikipedias
• May 29: Enable by default on all wikis
More details are posted here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Large_Wi...
Next week, we’ll post an update on how Media Viewer is performing on our first 16 sites, along with more community feedback.
Have a great weekend!
Fabrice
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Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation
multimedia@lists.wikimedia.org