Congratulation to all the Multimedia Team
2014-06-19 20:21 GMT-04:00 Fabrice Florin <[email protected]>: > Hi folks, > > We're happy to announce that Media Viewer is now live on all wikis hosted > by the Wikimedia Foundation! > > Media Viewer is testing well on all remaining Wikipedias (e.g.: Chinese, > Arabic, Hindu, Indonesian, etc.) and sister sites (e.g.: MetaWiki, Wikibooks, > Wikiquotes, Wikiversity, Wiktionary). > > The multimedia team worked hard in the last few weeks to develop a range > of final features, in response to frequent community requests. We hope you > will try them out and let us know what you think on the Media Viewer > discussion page (1). > > 1. Features on All Wikis > These features are now available on all wikis as of today: > * View original file (#630) > * Scroll down to see more info (#697) > * Show Commons link to logged out users (#429) > * Easy opt-out for registered users (#703) > * Opt-out for anons (#704) > > You can test these features on this Featured Pictures page. (2) > > 2. Features on MediaWiki.org only: > These features are now available on MediaWiki.org and will be deployed to > all wikis in coming days: > * Make it easier to find image information (#706) > * Prominent links to different image sizes (#664) > * Add more tooltips to Media Viewer (#546) > * Disable MediaViewer for certain images (#511) > * Track 'View original file’ and ‘Commons link' clicks (#715, #726) > * Track Media Viewer Opt-outs (/#558, #675) > > You can test these features on this demo page (3) — and learn more on the > updated help page (4). > > 3. Features in development > Other tasks in development or analysis include: > * Show attribution credits in download tool (#598) > * Make 'Commons link' and 'Use this file' more discoverable (#732) > * Click on image in Media Viewer to help view original file (#712) > * Improve Media Viewer UI on tablets (zoom/scroll) (#716) > * Remember the last selection for ‘Use this file' (#660) > > You can view more details about these features on our planning site. (5) > > 4. Feedback > We keep getting generally positive feedback worldwide, with these latest > results: (6) > * A majority of global respondents find the tool useful (60% average across > surveys) > * Cumulative approval by language: English 29%, French 70%, Spanish 78%, > Dutch 59%, Portuguese 81%, German 28%, Hungarian 62%, Catalan 71% > * Daily approval rates have increased on English Wikipedia from about 23% > a day after launch to 39% two weeks after launch (and German approval has > also increased from 23% to 56% in the same period). > * We anticipate further approval increases on these sites, as more new > features get rolled out in coming days, based on community feedback. > > We are also starting to track the opt-out rates to see how many people > turn off Media Viewer in their preferences. As of June 16, about 875 users > had disabled this feature on the English Wikipedia, two weeks after launch: > this represents about 0.34% of all registered users who viewed images on > the site since launch. We are sorry that this small minority of users don’t > like the tool, but we are glad that so many other users are finding it > useful. > > Please let us know what you think of these new features on our main > discussion page (1). Which do you like most? least? Are there other > must-have features that need to be developed right away, before we move on > to other projects? > > Thanks to all the community and team members for all you’ve done to make > Media Viewer possible. :) > > Onward! > > > Fabrice — for the Multimedia Team > > > (1) Discussion page: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer#New_features_based_on_your_feedback > > (2) Featured Pictures: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures > > (3) Demo page: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo > > (4) Help page: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Multimedia/Media_Viewer > > (5) Planning site: > http://ur1.ca/gtyrp > > (6) Survey results: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Survey > > _______________________________ > > Fabrice Florin > Product Manager, Multimedia > Wikimedia Foundation > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) >
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