Yes, I did not purport to offer an easy solution. I tried to clarify *what needs to happen* for significant progress on these issues, without suggesting that it is easy to make that happen.
As I mentioned, a new CEO is beginning work this week, and one of the (many) items on her to-do list is to improve and rationalize the Foundation's annual planning process, and cross-departmental planning and decision-making. Let's give her some time and wait for some guidance on this question of venue, i.e. how and where communities may *effectively* express needs and affect priorities. In the meantime, I repeat my suggestion that adding non-technical concise statements of impact to each issue would be a big help. For example, I (and many of you) know the impact of our slow/broken video conversion and upload workflows, but it would be helpful to add to SJ's "*Bulk conversion* for video uploads (videoconverter / video2commons are broken)" an impact statement such as "this is deterring video uploads from casual contributors". Cheers, A. (volunteer capacity) On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 10:45 PM Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: > I appreciate all of the comments; still unsure where to more persistently > host the conversation, but for now I posted this still-arbitrary list on > Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sj/multimedia>. (adding > other items mentioned in this thread) SJ > > ~~~~ > - *File formats*: Support high-demand formats – e.g. CSV, CML > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18491>, + hundreds of other > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297514> open tickets > - *Uploads*: Improve bulk, large, and video uploads. > + *Bulk conversion* for video uploads (videoconverter / > video2commons are broken) > + *Upload Wizard* upgrades (timeouts > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267492>, batch renaming, batch imports > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281599>) > - *Downloads*: Fix multi-download (Imker > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Imker_(batch_download)> is > broken) > + Make public dumps <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298394> (stale > since 2013) > - *Video playback*: Debug + roll out the videojs > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248418> player > - *Search*: Bring CQS back up <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297454>. > Implement a noauth option <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297995> for > tools > - *General*: Move to a blazegraph alternative (for wqcs) > + *Images*: Update thumbor <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216815> > and librsvg <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193352> || redesign > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T28741> the image table > *- Curation*: Simpler content assessment workflow, like en:wp's > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_assessment> (QI/VP > doesn't scale) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/FVA4YJN5OHPRSLACPXYD4XITFG7NNKSL/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- Asaf Bartov <asaf.bar...@gmail.com>
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