Thanks for the answers, James.
If it is a standard search, the results for languages other than English
will be quite poor and I am not sure how the Solr migration could help in
that regard.
Image tagging with Wikidata items could be more effective for i18n. If
there are already plans to make it happen, that is unknown to me.
About the gallery, maybe you could take a look to the proposed gallery and
comments? ("Redesigning the <gallery> tag.")
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2013-June/thread.html
I like that bawolff's proposal is less gridded, but of course, that is only
my subjective perception. Maybe there is room for collaboration there.
Things I missed in the VE's image gallery:
- a way of accessing the Commons file page
- a more clear highlighting (maybe slightly enlarging the image)
- double-click to insert
But other than that, for a first release it works quite well :)
Micru
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:37 PM, James Forrester
<[email protected]>wrote:
> On 14 June 2013 06:04, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:58 PM, James Forrester <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> The most noticeable change for users is that *you can now insert
>>> images and other media items* from the local wiki and Commons
>>>
>>>
>> Wonderful! A couple of questions:
>> - Is the Commons gallery sorted by latest first or is it alphabetical?
>>
>
> The gallery has the same sort as the normal search results (e.g. for
> "fish<https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=images&search=fish&fulltext=Search>"
> on Commons), which is I think by "relevancy", but I don't know how our
> search system works exactly, sorry.
>
> We're happy to build more features to improve the media insertion tool -
>
> * should we show more "meta-data"?
> * is changing what you're searching for obvious?
> * is it clear enough which one is selected?
> * and searching tool specifically - should you be able to filter by media
> type? language? length/resolution/format? licence? local vs. Commons? etc.
>
> … but many of these will need to wait until the planned replacement of
> our search system with
> Solr<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search#Solr_implementation_plan>to do
> this usefully.
>
>
>> - Would it be possible to add a button "upload more" in the gallery
>> window that would open the UploadWizard in a new tab passing as parameter
>> the current category?
>>
>
> We definitely want to build an upload-media button (and support
> drag-and-drop uploads too, possibly), but we don't have particular designs
> on how that should work. We're aware that before switching it on we should
> make sure that the Commons community are ready for potentially a lot more
> media items coming in.
>
>
>> Thanks for this amazing update!
>>
>
> Of course; we're happy you like it. :-)
>
> Yours,
> --
> James D. Forrester
> Product Manager, VisualEditor
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>
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