User:NeilK/Multimedia2011

Multimedia Features 03/31/2011

Attendees: Alolita, Kaldari, Michael Dale, Brandon, Neil, the Ghost of Christmas Past

Uploading to Commons is like doing taxes :-) ... Kaldari

Neil's Monologue
Dividing things according to how development thinks, not users.


 * 1) Database and API
 * 2) Fix the problem of URL == title == downloaded filename.
 * 3) Canonical File extensions (same problem) 4421 - Robla's extension
 * 4) Licensing/author metadata in the database
 * 5) File stashing / staging
 * 6) Tagging
 * 7) Machine Tagging


 * 1) Operations
 * 2) New Search Engine


 * 1) Design & interface
 * 2) File Page redesign
 * 3) Better batch features
 * 4) Non-destructive derivative files as new versions or alternative version
 * 5) -- e.g. Rotation of Images, Cropping,
 * 6) New Browsers can do Contrast, Hue, Sharpening etc. etc.  http://blog.vlad1.com/2010/07/30/fun-with-fast-javascript/
 * 7) Improving Uploading Experience
 * 8) Flickr Imports
 * 9) Upload by URLs - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20512
 * 10) Turbo Commons (licensing Wizard) -- analogy to TurboTax, where it simply asks you questions you do understand, to make decisions about things you don't understand.
 * 11) Better reviewing tools
 * Workflow tools - Article for deletion simpler, tagging for copyvio easier
 * SVG editing

Principle of how to interact

 * 1) Involve community in defining problems
 * 2) We do bold steps that have high impact, what we only have the ability to do
 * 3) Involve the community in executing solutions
 * For instance, if there are HTML/template changes, we can do design & others can impl
 * Example: do a Twinkle that others can modify, write plugins. Look at common workflows.

What we develop

 * 1) We don't care if it's not appropriate for Wikipedia
 * 2) Develop in extensions; maybe even fork

Communicating better

 * 1) Blog more, tell stories
 * 2) new/experimental features should be more prominent, designed in
 * 3) Kaldari's example - "my uploads" feature, too hidden

Ideas

 * Tagging
 * File: page
 * User galleries
 * Frickin Flickr uploading
 * Centralize "Fair Use" items
 * "Article Feedback Tool"

Look at also

 * Guillaume's list
 * Bugzilla - bug list which has feature suggestions
 * Erik's list of multimedia features