Yes, an interesting vision indeed and I like these use cases. Having read the other thread about the copyright difficulties with video codecs and I understand this vision is a long way off, but I like this short intro to keep us all on point about what we would like to see: ease of use in contributing and in therefore sharing, both internally (cross project) and externally (to twitter or whatever).
2014/1/14, Fabrice Florin <fflo...@wikimedia.org>: > Dear Gerard, > > Thank you so much for your kind words about the proposed Multimedia Vision > for Wikimedia sites by 2016. (1) > > I am glad that our first user stories resonate with you. They intentionally > focus on ways that our community may interact through multimedia -- and we > view these types of productive collaborations between different user groups > as a key objective for our work. > > We really appreciate your thoughtful blog post about this vision (2) and > fully agree with you that more user stories will be needed to illustrate the > scope of possible interactions between different communities around the > world -- from schools to professional or personal sites around the world. We > aim to identify more user stories like these to inform our next steps. > > We are actively working with Lydia, Daniel and the Wikidata team to > implement structured data on Commons and integrate it with Wikidata later > this year, in collaboration with our community. We expect this work will > improve a range of multimedia workflows as a result, from curation to search > and beyond. We will definitely address the points you raise. > > I would also like to thank all the community members who have joined our > discussion about this multimedia vision (3). We are grateful for your > feedback, and very glad to see a partnership develop between our community > and the foundation around these goals, so we may better serve our users > together. > > If you haven’t commented yet, please share your feedback here, after viewing > the video: > > http://ur1.ca/gdljy > > You are all invited to join our office hours IRC chat about multimedia this > Thursday, January 16 at 19:00 UTC (4) — we look forward to discussing this > vision and other media projects with you then. More on this later. > > Thanks again for everyone’s wonderful work in helping share free knowledge > through multimedia. > > All the best, > > > Fabrice > > > (1) Multimedia Vision 2016: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Multimedia_Features/Vision_2016 > > (2) Blog Post by Gerard: > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/01/wikimedia-multimedia-featuresvision-2016.html > > (3) Discuss the Multimedia Vision: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Multimedia_Features/Vision_2016 > > (4) Multimedia Office Hours chat on IRC: Thursday at 19:00 UTC > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours > > > _______________________________ > > Fabrice Florin > Product Manager, Multimedia > Wikimedia Foundation > > Multimedia Hub: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia > > Profile: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) > > > On Jan 10, 2014, at 4:01 AM, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:33:30 +0100 >> From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> >> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org>, WikiData-l >> <wikidat...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Commons Discussion >> List >> <common...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List >> <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] A Multimedia Vision for 2016 >> Message-ID: >> <cao53wxuxycnbfoe6fkugohvvopgb+mc+h9kbhk4btm74fqo...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> >> Hoi, >> Fabrice, I very much love the two stories described in the vision. It >> describes not only a functionality that is technical, it also describes >> how >> our community may interact. That is great. >> >> What I missed are the consequences of the planned integration of Commons >> with Wikidata. I blogged about it [1] and I suggest three more stories >> that >> could be told because they are enabled by this integration. What I do not >> fully understand is how the community aspects will integrate in an >> environment that will be more multi lingual and multi cultural as a >> consequence. >> >> I have confidence that the three stories that I suggest will be realised >> by >> 2016. Not only that, I am pretty sure that as a consequence the amount of >> traffic that our servers will have to handle will grow enormously to the >> extend that I am convinced that our current capacity will not be able to >> cope. Then again, they are the luxury problems that make us appreciate how >> much room we still have for growth. >> Thanks, >> GerardM >> >> >> [1] >> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/01/wikimedia-multimedia-featuresvision-2016.html >> >> >> On 10 January 2014 01:39, Fabrice Florin <fflo...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >>> Happy new year, everyone! >>> >>> Many thanks to all of you who contributed to our multimedia programs last >>> year! Now that we have a new multimedia team at WMF, we look forward to >>> making some good progress together this year. >>> >>> To kick off the new year, here is a proposed multimedia vision for 2016, >>> which was prepared by our multimedia and design teams, with guidance from >>> community members: >>> >>> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/09/multimedia-vision-2016/ >>> >>> This possible scenario is intended for discussion purposes, to help us >>> visualize how we could improve our user experience over the next three >>> years. We hope that it will spark useful community feedback on some of >>> the >>> goals we are considering. >>> >>> After you’ve viewed the video, we would be grateful if you could let us >>> know what you think in this discussion: >>> >>> >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Multimedia_Features/Vision_2016 >>> >>> We are looking for feedback from all users who benefit from Commons, even >>> if their work takes place on other sites. This vision explores ways to >>> integrate Wikimedia Commons more closely with Wikipedia and other >>> MediaWiki >>> projects, to help users contribute more easily to our free media >>> repository >>> -- wherever they are. >>> >>> In coming weeks, we will start more focused discussions on some key >>> features outlined in this presentation. If you would like to join those >>> conversations and keep up with our work, we invite you to subscribe to >>> our >>> multimedia mailing list: >>> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia >>> >>> We look forward to more great collaborations in the new year! >>> >>> All the best, >>> >>> >>> Fabrice >>> on behalf of the Multimedia team >>> >>> _______________________________ >>> >>> Fabrice Florin >>> Product Manager, Multimedia >>> Wikimedia Foundation >>> >>> Wikipedia Profile: >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) >>> >>> Multimedia Project Hub: >>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 3 >> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:16:01 +0100 >> From: Delphine Ménard <notafi...@gmail.com> >> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement Sarah Stierch >> Message-ID: >> <CAHppPBeZzLr9idyLsUAWANuA1hYQnnmgT=3a+u7_ungrjbo...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Oh wow, this is so... well, random. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Delphine >> >> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Frank Schulenburg >> <fschulenb...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I'm writing to let you know that Sarah Stierch is no longer an employee >>> of the Wikimedia Foundation. >>> >>> The Wikimedia Foundation has recently learned that Sarah has been editing >>> Wikipedia on behalf of paying clients, as recently as a few weeks ago. >>> She did that even though it is widely known that paid editing is frowned >>> upon by many in the editing community and by the Wikimedia Foundation. >>> >>> The Wikimedia Foundation values Sarah a great deal. 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