Re: [Multimedia] Your (mostly) weekly Multimedia update

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 -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist _______________________________________________ Multimedia mailing list Multimedia(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia