[Wikimedia-l] A Multimedia Vision for 2016

Tue Jan 14 19:07:25 UTC 2014

Dear Gerard,

Thank you so much for your kind words about the proposed Multimedia Vision for Wikimedia sites by 2016. (1)

I am glad that our first user stories resonate with you. They intentionally focus on ways that our community may interact through multimedia -- and we view these types of productive collaborations between different user groups as a key objective for our work.

We really appreciate your thoughtful blog post about this vision (2) and fully agree with you that more user stories will be needed to illustrate the scope of possible interactions between different communities around the world -- from schools to professional or personal sites around the world. We aim to identify more user stories like these to inform our next steps.

We are actively working with Lydia, Daniel and the Wikidata team to implement structured data on Commons and integrate it with Wikidata later this year, in collaboration with our community. We expect this work will improve a range of multimedia workflows as a result, from curation to search and beyond. We will definitely address the points you raise.

I would also like to thank all the community members who have joined our discussion about this multimedia vision (3). We are grateful for your feedback, and very glad to see a partnership develop between our community and the foundation around these goals, so we may better serve our users together.

If you haven’t commented yet, please share your feedback here, after viewing the video:

http://ur1.ca/gdljy

You are all invited to join our office hours IRC chat about multimedia this Thursday, January 16 at 19:00 UTC (4) — we look forward to discussing this vision and other media projects with you then. More on this later.

Thanks again for everyone’s wonderful work in helping share free knowledge through multimedia.

All the best,

Fabrice

(1) Multimedia Vision 2016:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Multimedia_Features/Vision_2016

(2) Blog Post by Gerard:
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/01/wikimedia-multimedia-featuresvision-2016.html

(3) Discuss the Multimedia Vision:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Multimedia_Features/Vision_2016

(4) Multimedia Office Hours chat on IRC: Thursday at 19:00 UTC
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours

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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia

Profile:
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On Jan 10, 2014, at 4:01 AM, wikimedia-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:33:30 +0100
> From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>, 	WikiData-l
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> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] A Multimedia Vision for 2016
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> 
> Hoi,
> Fabrice, I very much love the two stories described in the vision. It
> describes not only a functionality that is technical, it also describes how
> our community may interact. That is great.
> 
> What I missed are the consequences of the planned integration of Commons
> with Wikidata. I blogged about it [1] and I suggest three more stories that
> could be told because they are enabled by this integration. What I do not
> fully understand is how the community aspects will integrate in an
> environment that will be more multi lingual and multi cultural as a
> consequence.
> 
> I have confidence that the three stories that I suggest will be realised by
> 2016. Not only that, I am pretty sure that as a consequence the amount of
> traffic that our servers will have to handle will grow enormously to the
> extend that I am convinced that our current capacity will not be able to
> cope. Then again, they are the luxury problems that make us appreciate how
> much room we still have for growth.
> Thanks,
>     GerardM
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/01/wikimedia-multimedia-featuresvision-2016.html
> 
> 
> On 10 January 2014 01:39, Fabrice Florin <fflorin at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 
>> Happy new year, everyone!
>> 
>> Many thanks to all of you who contributed to our multimedia programs last
>> year! Now that we have a new multimedia team at WMF, we look forward to
>> making some good progress together this year.
>> 
>> To kick off the new year, here is a proposed multimedia vision for 2016,
>> which was prepared by our multimedia and design teams, with guidance from
>> community members:
>> 
>> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/09/multimedia-vision-2016/
>> 
>> This possible scenario is intended for discussion purposes, to help us
>> visualize how we could improve our user experience over the next three
>> years. We hope that it will spark useful community feedback on some of the
>> goals we are considering.
>> 
>> After you’ve viewed the video, we would be grateful if you could let us
>> know what you think in this discussion:
>> 
>> 
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Multimedia_Features/Vision_2016
>> 
>> We are looking for feedback from all users who benefit from Commons, even
>> if their work takes place on other sites. This vision explores ways to
>> integrate Wikimedia Commons more closely with Wikipedia and other MediaWiki
>> projects, to help users contribute more easily to our free media repository
>> -- wherever they are.
>> 
>> In coming weeks, we will start more focused discussions on some key
>> features outlined in this presentation. If you would like to join those
>> conversations and keep up with our work, we invite you to subscribe to our
>> multimedia mailing list:
>> 
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
>> 
>> We look forward to more great collaborations in the new year!
>> 
>> All the best,
>> 
>> 
>> Fabrice
>> on behalf of the Multimedia team
>> 
>> _______________________________
>> 
>> Fabrice Florin
>> Product Manager, Multimedia
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> 
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> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:16:01 +0100
> From: Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement Sarah Stierch
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> Oh wow, this is so... well, random.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Delphine
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> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Frank Schulenburg
> <fschulenburg at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I'm writing to let you know that Sarah Stierch is no longer an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation.
>> 
>> The Wikimedia Foundation has recently learned that Sarah has been editing Wikipedia on behalf of paying clients, as recently as a few weeks ago. She did that even though it is widely known that paid editing is frowned upon by many in the editing community and by the Wikimedia Foundation.
>> 
>> The Wikimedia Foundation values Sarah a great deal. She has been an active Wikipedian since 2006. She is committed to increasing dialogue between cultural institutions and our projects. She has worked hard to increase the presence and voices of women and other minorities in our projects, and she is a warm welcomer of new Wikipedians. Her work in Program Evaluation has been important and necessary. She is a good friend of many of us.
>> 
>> Everybody makes mistakes, and I would like to believe that the Wikimedia movement is a place of forgiveness and compassion. And so I ask you to respect Sarah's privacy at what is surely a difficult time for her, and to join me in wishing her every future success.
>> 
>> I sincerely hope that Sarah will continue her important work as a Wikipedian and member of the GLAM community, and I thank her for the commitment and energy and thoughtfulness she has brought to her work at the Foundation.
>> 
>> Frank Schulenburg
>> 
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