Am 22.05.2014 01:38 schrieb "Fabrice Florin" <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Hi folks,
We would appreciate your thoughts about a proposed "View Original File”
feature for Media Viewer. (1)
1. Goals
In our surveys and discussions, many users have asked for either access
to original
files — or a zoom feature.
These frequent requests cover a range of use cases:
* view the original file in its full resolution
* edit, crop and/or re-use images
* zoom in to see details
2. Feature
To address these requests, this feature would enable you to access the
original
file from Media Viewer, so you can examine it in your browser, and
easily edit/re-use it. To view that original file, you would simply click
on a new "View original file" button next to the image, as shown in this
mockup (2). This would open the original full-size image in the
same browser window, as happens now when you click images in file
description pages on Commons. Your browser’s back button would return you
to the Media Viewer.
This proposal would support the use cases above by providing the same
core
functionality editors are used to on file description pages. It would
enable you to operate on files (convert/edit them), and also give you the
ability to zoom on common file types in modern browsers.
3. Alternatives
The multimedia team has investigated several other solutions to address
these user
requests. We developed a Simple Zoom Link (3), which you can
test now on Commons: but we’re concerned that this implementation provides
a poor user experience that’s more complex than it needs to be. We also
considered a Basic Zoom feature (4) and a Full Zoom feature (5). But these
implementations require more development time than we have right now. We’re
eager to wrap up this version of Media Viewer this month, so we can move on
to other important issues, such as upgrading UploadWizard or fixing bugs in
our technical debt.
4. What do you think?
We’d be grateful for your feedback about this proposal and some of the
short-term
options we’re considering, by answering these two questions:
Q1. How important to you is it that we implement “View original file” or
a similar
feature at this time?
a) very important
b) somewhat important
c) not important
View the original file plus older versions is, from a glam upload
perspective, mandatory.
Q2. Which of the following options do you think we
should develop at this
time?
a) View Original File: (~1 day of work) (1)
Yes please.
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(1) View Original File (#630):
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/630
(2) Design Mockup:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Media_Viewer_-_View_Original_File_-…
(3) Simple Zoom Link (#588):
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/588
(4) Basic Zoom feature (#504):
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/504
(5) Full Zoom feature (#167):
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/167
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
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