Greetings!
Last week, the multimedia team had its first planning meeting for 2014-15 and
we would like to share our proposed goals for the coming year (July 2014 to
June 2015).
1. Goals
This year, we would like to focus on improving the contribution and editing
workflows, while addressing our technical debt and fixing critical bugs. To
that end, we aim to:
• engage more users to contribute media
• add more media content on our sites
• provide a smoother experience for all
• fix critical bugs to make things work better.
2. Users
Last year, we focused mostly on readers, with a focus on Media Viewer. This
year, we propose to switch our focus to these users:
• contributors -- the people who upload media on our sites
• editors -- the people who add media on articles
Note that we aim to support both casual and experienced users within each
group. We will initially focus on Commons users, then move on to serve more
users on Wikipedia and other sites. Secondary user groups include admins,
campaign organizers and developers.
3. Activities
This year, we propose to invest our time on these main activities:
• Structured Data: improve the way we store metadata — an important goal,
because most other features depend on it.
• Critical Bugs: fix urgent bugs in our infrastructure -- and become more
familiar with our entire code base, including:
- Image scalers, Core media handling, TimedMediaHandler, Media backend
storage, Media Viewer, etc.
• Features: develop or improve user-facing projects, including:
- Upload Wizard -- our main user-facing project this year (includes Commons
Upgrade and Modal Tool for other sites)
- Other Features -- Media Viewer 0.3, File Notifications, File Page, Kaltura
Player Upgrade, Campaign Tools
4. Roadmap
We plan to spread out these activities throughout the coming year, as proposed
in this rough timeline:
• Q1: metrics, upload wizard fixes, structured data planning, bug fixes
• Q2: structured data on Commons, new upload features, bug fixes
• Q3: more structured data, modal upload tools, media viewer, notifications,
bug fixes
• Q4: insert media tools, A/V upgrade, file pages, more bug fixes
For a more detailed roadmap, visit this planning page for 2014-2015:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/2014-15_Goals
Note that these first milestones may be adjusted in coming weeks (and will be
updated on a quarterly basis), based on prior quarter's results, as well as
community and team discussions. To that end, we invite you to leave your
feedback on this plan’s discussion page.
5. Upload Wizard
We have now started our first phase of planning and development on Upload
Wizard, and have prepared a first task list and proposed timeline on this
updated project page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UploadWizard
In coming weeks, we will host focused community discussions about this Upload
Wizard plan and its key features. We look forward to discussing some of the
main challenges and solutions together. For now, please leave comments on that
project’s discussion page.
Many thanks to all the community and team members who took the time to guide
our work this year. We look forward to more great collaborations with you next
year. :)
Regards as ever,
Fabrice - for the Multimedia Team
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
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