There is a Multimedia team under Editing, and it includes Mark Holmquist of the former Multimedia team as to lead engineer. The teams roadmap is in the works, but 3D is something that's been coming up a lot lately, so the team should be able to at least make some plans around figuring it out pretty soon.
- Trevor On Saturday, May 9, 2015, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > Im told the multimedia team got undisbanded and now is part of editing > department. > > People have been talking about vr for a long time. I think there is more > pressing concerns (e.g. video). I suspect VR will stay in the video game > realm or gimmick realm for a while yet > > --bawolff > On May 9, 2015 2:31 PM, "Pine W" <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > > As a part of the engineering reorganization, will there be a multimedia > > team within the readeship or power users groups? For some time I have > been > > hoping to get Wikipedia the ability to provide interactive > visualizations. > > > > Also, this article[1] suggests that VR may see widespread adoption in the > > next few years, and a multimedia team could capitalize on the trend. > > > > Pine > > > > [1] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30924022 > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
