Hello out there, Multimedia nation! Let's run down the highlights of this
week.
== Media Viewer release ==
We're continuing our release of Media Viewer. Last Tuesday, it went out
to English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia. The Thursday before that, it
went out to all Wikisources. There have been a lot of interesting results
from those releases - lots of feedback and helpful people :)
We're also tracking community feedback of negative nature - a lot of the
on-wiki communities are asking useful questions and working with us, but
some are unconvinced that the feature is ready for prime-time. Stand by,
as decisions aren't currently finalized on this front.
We will probably be stepping up our work on Media Viewer, at least on
a temporary basis, to keep ahead of community concerns.
== Annual planning, reviews ==
One of our big timesinks in the past few weeks has been the annual review
and planning process, which came to a head in the May/June border time
range. I think it's all sorted out, for the most part, now, so our dev
and product teams should be back at full strength.
== UploadWizard ==
We had a big ol' meeting about UploadWizard last Monday, wherein we discussed
what our plan was going to be for tackling improvements to it.
Basically, we intend to work heads-down on UploadWizard, for about 40% of
our time per week, until WLM is over. This plan is subject to change (see
above re: Media Viewer), but we'll try our best to push out a nice upgraded
wizard for the campaign folks in September.
I'll probably follow up some time in the future to talk more about this
as we come to a more solid plan, technically. The work leading up to WLM
will involve a lot of fixes to the codebase and even more bugfixes, so
the tech team needs to get together and hash out an attack vector.
== Other things ==
That SHA1 patch that we were talking about is still up in the air, and
wouldn't mind some more attention [0]. In general I'm going to try to
keep track of out-of-focus things (which are things the team isn't actively
scheduling in a week) on a
MediaWiki.org page [1] so y'all (and we) can
keep track of them more easily.
== Anything else? ==
This has been a whirlwind of a week; if you have questions about other
stuff that I haven't touched on, let me know.
[0]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/127460
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Out_of_focus_stuff
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Mark Holmquist
Software Engineer, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist