User:Bawolff/commons/brainstorm

This is just a page to dump ideas related to commons/multimedia that I think are roughly reasonable or nice (however, they might not all be good). Most of these are not my own, but things other's have suggested

Curation (In the patrolling/vandalism prevention sense of the word)

 * Image patrol
 * Could use its own page to think out the details
 * Previous toolserver attempt at commons:Commons:Recent uploads patrol

Curation (In the organizing information sense of the word)

 * Having a gallery mode for subcats, that use a representative image.
 * It would be great if popularity data could be integrated into commons
 * Continuing on the pipe dream, native cat intersection would be nice.

File Metadata

 * Storing metadata in a retrievable way
 * Some parser func or something to retrieve exif data from picture
 * Editing metadata in the wiki. Even if just for popular values
 * Probably best to wrap around exiftool. Making one's own metadata writer is probably a lot of work.
 * More long term: Querying metadata
 * Adding it to search indexes?
 * Issues involving special characters in metadata, with regards to wikipedia links.
 * Investigate - do license tags, etc output rdfa. If not, should they?

issues involving individual users

 * Using on target wikis
 * Cross wiki purges working properly
 * Default page for multipaged media
 * Better gallery display
 * Compare with flickr, which has a lot less whitespace, and much more appealing galleries
 * Perhaps add different gallery modes for different layout
 * Adapt wikia's gallery changes.
 * Allow user to easily create their own gallery of fav images
 * A little too user oriented perhaps? (After all, the site is supposed to be for the greater good, not have user's vacation snaps or things like that)
 * Could perhaps be integrated with watchlist (If the much wanted multiple watchlist and public watchlist features are ever done). Could have special:watchedImages which gives a pretty gallery of images
 * Integrate commons sideshow feature in core?
 * Wikitech-l thread about model viewer.
 * JS-based image editor in wiki
 * Assuming something already exists which could be integrated.

Uploading

 * Chunked upload on plain upload form, so big file uploads could work out of the box

Search
Search is probably outside the area that I'm going to work in, but seems to be an area that needs work from a commons prespective.
 * In particular http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/improving_search#A_little_bit_of_intelligence seems strongly wanted

Backend

 * VIPS
 * Stuff relating to rotation