[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

2021-10-17 Thread effe iets anders
This is a horribly problematic election. Not only does it take hours to go through the candidates if you actually want to rank them, but you would also need to be willing to spend about a lot of time to enter them into the broken voting interface (which works great for up to 5 candidates - not for

[Wikimedia-l] Re: 100$ million dollars and still obsolete

2021-10-17 Thread Amir Sarabadani
Well, if we need to have better support for multimedia, first we need to give some attention to the existing system that is basically falling apart. Let me give you some examples. Thumbor, the software that builds small sizes of the images is on deprecated infrastructure, on EOL python version

[Wikimedia-l] Re: 100$ million dollars and still obsolete

2021-10-17 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 16.10.21 um 16:25 Uhr schrieb Yaroslav Blanter: > > In a few years, there will be tools for editing video. If by that time > we are not ready to incorporate video at full scale to Wikimedia > projects, we will be where AOL is now. We already _are_ there. When we tried to relaunch German