Kongrats folks !, nice docs and kontent, you guys are just getting better at developing software products, happy to see that, ;-).
Keep the great work ! -- aarcos On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:29 AM, Fabrice Florin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > The multimedia team completed a review of Media Viewer in recent weeks, > and we'd like to share a few highlights of what we learned from this > project in 2014. > > 1. Research > Here are some key findings from our research about this product: > • Media Viewer serves a lot more images than before (17M intentional > views/day) > • Most users keep Media Viewer enabled (99.5% enabled) > • Media Viewer key features were found easy to use > • Media Viewer is more useful for readers than active editors > > More information can be found in this Media Viewer Research 2014 report: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Research_2014 > > See also these companion slides for a visual presentation of more > findings: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Media_Viewer_Research_-_2014_Slides.pdf > > 2. Retrospective > The multimedia team also discussed lessons learned from this project in > 2014, identifying what worked and what didn’t work, in order to inform > future product development. > > Here are some highlights of that team review. > > The Media Viewer project ran from July 2013 to November 2014 and was more > challenging than expected. While the product received favorable or neutral > feedback on most Wikimedia sites, it was met with negative reactions from > many contributors on the English and German Wikipedias, as well as on > Wikimedia Commons. This caused the team to work longer than planned, to > improve features based on user feedback. > > What worked well: > • Detailed activity and performance metrics. > • Design research -- before and after implementing a feature. > • Working with community champions in different projects. > • Agile development process and tools. > • Unit tests to improve the code. > > What didn't work well: > • Many community discussions did not effectively inform product > development. > • Surveys were not representative, because they were optional. > • We lacked the tools to get productive feedback from different user > groups. > • Juggling feature and platform development at the same time was hard. > • Scope creep; the workload kept growing beyond available resources. > • No clear success metric; we couldn't tell if we had met our goal. > > More findings can be found in this Media Viewer Retrospective summary: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Retrospective > > Please let us know if you have any questions about this research or > retrospective. You’re also welcome to add your feedback on the Media Viewer > talk page: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Media_Viewer/About#Media_Viewer_2014_Reports > > > I'm grateful to all the team members who worked on these documents, > especially Gergő and Gilles. These findings can help us better understand > how Media Viewer serves our users — and how we can improve not only this > product but also our development and release process. > > This will be my last post on behalf of the multimedia team, as I have now > transitioned into a new role at the Wikimedia Foundation, working as > Movement Communications Manager. Senior engineer Gilles Dubuc is now > leading the multimedia team and can answer questions related to upcoming > projects. > > I’d like to thank all the community members who worked closely with us on > this project, as well as my colleagues on the multimedia and product teams. > We learned a lot together, and I really enjoyed creating a better product > with you all. I look forward to more collaborations in coming years. > > Regards as ever, > > > Fabrice > > > _______________________________ > > Fabrice Florin > Movement Communications Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Multimedia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia > >
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