[Wikimedia-l] A Multimedia Vision for 2016

Fri Jan 17 18:40:49 UTC 2014

Yes, an interesting vision indeed and I like these use cases. Having
read the other thread about the copyright difficulties with video
codecs and I understand this vision is a long way off, but I like this
short intro to keep us all on point about what we would like to see:
ease of use in contributing and in therefore sharing, both internally
(cross project) and externally (to twitter or whatever).

2014/1/14, Fabrice Florin <fflorin at wikimedia.org>:
> 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
>
>
> _______________________________
>
> Fabrice Florin
> Product Manager, Multimedia
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> Multimedia Hub:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia
>
> Profile:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
>
>
> 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
>> 	<wikidata-l at lists.wikimedia.org>, 	Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
>> 	<commons-l at lists.wikimedia.org>, 	Wikimedia Mailing List
>> 	<wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> 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
>>>
>>> Wikipedia Profile:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
>>>
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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
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Frank Schulenburg
>> <fschulenburg at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
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>>>
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>>> Frank Schulenburg
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