An'n 02.09.2010 17:36, hett Guillaume Paumier schreven:
Bonjour,
Le jeudi 02 septembre 2010 à 12:01 +0200, Christophe Henner a écrit :*
We all know that uploading a file on commons, and on Wikimedia, is kind of tricky nowdays. However, this could be changed thanks to HTML5.
HTML5 includes the drag and drop thingy that makes the uploads easier and that can automatically fetch the EXIF datas. If we want we could even allow the multiple drag and drop.
There are a lot of things we /could/ do, but only few we /can/ do with limited resources. Unless you're offering to develop the feature yourself :)
The Foundation has a budget of 20 million $ this financial year. It plans to spend 8.972 million $ on 91 staff members. That's 98,593.41$ per person. So there are resources. They are just planned to be spend for other things.
With that background I do not like the "yeah, nice idea, do it yourself" approach whenever somebody proposes good ideas. We have many great ideas lingering around for years that never get implemented because the number of volunteer developers is limited especially when it comes to projects that could take months to implement. (Datawiki, Central Interwiki, support for internal map services instead of JPGs on Commons, true support for multilingual wikis, working category intersections etc. pp.)
In my opinion the Foundation should employ several developers who don't have any other task than improving Wikimedia. There should be a pool of improvement ideas that can be rated by importance by the Wikimedia users. The paid developers should then be able to pick improvement ideas and implement them preferring projects that are rated important. That way we can ensure a constant flow of innovation for Wikimedia.
Guillaume, you are a Foundation employee, how about presenting my improvement idea in the next meeting with the bosses ;-)
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