An'n 02.09.2010 17:36, hett Guillaume Paumier schreven:
Bonjour,
Le jeudi 02 septembre 2010 à 12:01 +0200, Christophe Henner a écrit :*
We all know that uploading a file on commons, and
on Wikimedia, is
kind of tricky nowdays. However, this could be changed thanks to
HTML5.
HTML5 includes the drag and drop thingy that makes the uploads easier
and that can automatically fetch the EXIF datas. If we want we could
even allow the multiple drag and drop.
There are a lot of things we /could/ do,
but only few we /can/ do with
limited resources. Unless you're offering to develop the feature
yourself :)
The Foundation has a budget of 20 million $ this financial year. It
plans to spend 8.972 million $ on 91 staff members. That's 98,593.41$
per person. So there are resources. They are just planned to be spend
for other things.
With that background I do not like the "yeah, nice idea, do it yourself"
approach whenever somebody proposes good ideas. We have many great ideas
lingering around for years that never get implemented because the number
of volunteer developers is limited especially when it comes to projects
that could take months to implement. (Datawiki, Central Interwiki,
support for internal map services instead of JPGs on Commons, true
support for multilingual wikis, working category intersections etc. pp.)
In my opinion the Foundation should employ several developers who don't
have any other task than improving Wikimedia. There should be a pool of
improvement ideas that can be rated by importance by the Wikimedia
users. The paid developers should then be able to pick improvement ideas
and implement them preferring projects that are rated important. That
way we can ensure a constant flow of innovation for Wikimedia.
Guillaume, you are a Foundation employee, how about presenting my
improvement idea in the next meeting with the bosses ;-)
Marcus Buck
User:Slomox