The issue is still there. And I don't know if a new CEO will make things change: I assume that there are some team leaders reading this mailing list, but we hardly ever see progress. No one seems to be accountable.
Let's remember that we used to have a book creator that was broken on purpose to change to a new PDF creator that isn't still working property: more than three years ago I opened this ticket and I assume that no one is going to solve this ever: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209837. Because we have a LOT of money. Mountains of money. But there is no one driving our luxury car.
Sincerely Galder ________________________________ From: Asaf Bartov asaf.bartov@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 10:08 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikimedia Commons Discussion List commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)
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@gmail.commailto:meta.sj@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 Commonshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sj/multimedia. (adding other items mentioned in this thread) SJ
~~~~ - File formats: Support high-demand formats – e.g. CSV, CMLhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18491, + hundreds of otherhttps://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 (timeoutshttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267492, batch renaming, batch importshttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281599) - Downloads: Fix multi-download (Imkerhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Imker_(batch_download) is broken) + Make public dumpshttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298394 (stale since 2013) - Video playback: Debug + roll out the videojshttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248418 player - Search: Bring CQS back uphttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297454. Implement a noauth optionhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297995 for tools - General: Move to a blazegraph alternative (for wqcs) + Images: Update thumborhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216815 and librsvghttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193352 || redesignhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T28741 the image table - Curation: Simpler content assessment workflow, like en:wp'shttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_assessment (QI/VP doesn't scale)
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