Hi,
I wanted to bring to your attention a few critical issues that are negatively affecting
the workof the Commons community and the wider Wikimedia projects.
First, there are about 36 unresolved bugs [0] in the "Media storage" component.
Swift is a vitalcomponent of the projects' ability to show images and other media, and
it having so manyopen bugs causes serious ongoing issues, not only on Commons, but
everywhere.
Some of these bugs are high priority, and have been open since 2012. The community of
adminsare straining under the load, and it's not getting any better now that
additional paths into theupload pipeline are becoming available.
UploadWizard, too, is fundamentally broken. There are a *lot* of open bugs [1] [2] and the
interfaceis in need of design love.
It would be awesome to see these issues addressed in the coming months. In particular,
becauseWiki Loves Monuments will start in September, it would be great to have these
issues fixedon or before August 13th, giving Commons about two weeks to test the fixes and
changesbefore the contest starts, and plenty of room for backporting urgent fixes.
Regards,Steinsplitter
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Steinsplitter
[0]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?component=Media%20storage&pr…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Commons:Upload_help/…
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?component=UploadWizard&produ…