Yes, I did not purport to offer an easy solution. I tried to clarify *what
needs to happen* for significant progress on these issues, without
suggesting that it is easy to make that happen.
As I mentioned, a new CEO is beginning work this week, and one of the
(many) items on her to-do list is to improve and rationalize the
Foundation's annual planning process, and cross-departmental planning and
decision-making. Let's give her some time and wait for some guidance on
this question of venue, i.e. how and where communities may *effectively*
express needs and affect priorities.
In the meantime, I repeat my suggestion that adding non-technical concise
statements of impact to each issue would be a big help. For example, I
(and many of you) know the impact of our slow/broken video conversion and
upload workflows, but it would be helpful to add to SJ's "*Bulk conversion* for
video uploads (videoconverter / video2commons are broken)" an
impact statement such as "this is deterring video uploads from casual
contributors".
Cheers,
A.
(volunteer capacity)
On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 10:45 PM Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I appreciate all of the comments; still unsure where
to more persistently
host the conversation, but for now I posted this still-arbitrary list on
Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sj/multimedia>. (adding
other items mentioned in this thread) SJ
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- *File formats*: Support high-demand formats – e.g. CSV, CML
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18491>, + hundreds of other
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297514> open tickets
- *Uploads*: Improve bulk, large, and video uploads.
+ *Bulk conversion* for video uploads (videoconverter /
video2commons are broken)
+ *Upload Wizard* upgrades (timeouts
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267492>, batch renaming, batch imports
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281599>)
- *Downloads*: Fix multi-download (Imker
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Imker_(batch_download)> is
broken)
+ Make public dumps <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298394> (stale
since 2013)
- *Video playback*: Debug + roll out the videojs
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248418> player
- *Search*: Bring CQS back up <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297454>.
Implement a noauth option <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297995> for
tools
- *General*: Move to a blazegraph alternative (for wqcs)
+ *Images*: Update thumbor <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216815>
and librsvg <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193352> || redesign
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T28741> the image table
*- Curation*: Simpler content assessment workflow, like en:wp's
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_assessment> (QI/VP
doesn't scale)
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