https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57805
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Bug ID: 57805
Summary: Allow smoother and easier Wikimedia Commons pictures
discovery
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Extensions requests
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Allow smoother and easier Wikimedia Commons pictures discovery
Skills: Programming. Design.
Wikimedia Commons is 14 million media repository, all under a free license or
in public domain. This is a common repository used on Wikipedia and other
Wikimedia projects and available for any other projects in need of educative or
informational pictures.
Previous usability and UI effort were focused on the upload process and image
reusing.
This project is to think, design and develop a better interface to browse and
discover pictures, from a user perspective. For example, it has been suggested
to implement a lightbox system to switch to the next picture in the categories.
A part of the project could be to prepare an external website to implement this
lightbox and so offer a similar browsing experience than other popular pictures
sites. If the interface works well, a second phase could be to integrate it
directly to Wikimedia Commons.
Another idea is a view mode allowing to browse a root category (e.g. the cats
category or the roses category and to be able to see pictures in this category
and also the subcategories). This will satisfy the need "I want a cat photo" or
"I want a rose photo" without having to browse a dozen of specialized
subcategory. In a second step, we could filter result with available
information. If you're interested to implement this approach, your project
could be whether:
the design and development of the viewer mode, with a focus on the UI and
ergonomic browser capability
to prepare this second step and identify the most relevant criteria
(weight, resolution, taken date, color information, most used files on wikis,
images with labels) and analyze cost/benefits to cache these data; prepare a
prototype with a subset of 1000 images to help to create a performance model
and see how in the future have this information could be available for several
millions of pictures.
Mentor: Sébastien Santoro
URL:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Allow_smoother_and_easier_Wikimedia_Commons_pictures_discovery
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