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
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community
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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.com<mailto: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
Commons<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sj/multimedia>ia>. (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>91>, + 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>92>,
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>54>. 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&g… (QI/VP
doesn't scale)
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