Reading/Multimedia/Feature ideas

This page presents some first ideas for new features under consideration by the Wikimedia Foundation's new multimedia team. These ideas attempt to address issues outlined in this planning page for our team.

We invite comments from community members on this discussion page.

See more user feedback from this multimedia roundtable and IRC chat. Some of these ideas will also be discussed at Wikimania's upcoming multimedia roundtable on August 8th in Hong Kong.

Activities

Here are the main types of multimedia activities we are looking to support -- and their user groups:

View (watch / listen to media files) - 500M viewers

Create (contribute files, info, categories ) - ~21k uploaders/mo.

Curate (rate, review, discuss, edit, feature ) - ~500+ patrollers/admins.

Publish (place files on wiki projects) - ~82k active editors/mo.

Engage (organize media campaigns ) - ~34 campaign organizers

Feature ideas

Here are new feature ideas which the multimedia team is considering for the main types of activities above:

Media viewer - view images in larger size
File notifications - keep track of new activity for your files
File curation - review files more effectively
File feedback - rate or compare files
Media finder - add files to articles
Campaign tools - organize multimedia campaigns

Here are some short descriptions for each feature, as well as slides and/or demos when available.

For more info, check out these project slides.

Media viewer

Purpose: Provide a richer multimedia experience to match user expectations and display images in larger size, on the same page as the thumbnail
Users: All users, including 500M 'readers/viewers'

Features

Show images in larger, media viewer panel when you click on them
Include a description and credit below the image, link to file page
Option to go to next image if it is part of a category or collection

See also

Prototype:[1], source at [2], depends on gerrit:72844. --MarkTraceur (talk) 22:22, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File notifications

Purpose

Inform file creators when something happens to their files
Make contributors aware of what's happening on Commons

Users: All Commons contributors or curators

Features

File Upload Complete (for large files)
File Marked as Reviewed
File Tagged for Maintenance
File Marked for Deletion
File Rated/Featured
File Page was Edited
File was Used in Article
File was Overwritten
File was Deleted
Congrats on your 1st upload

File feedback

Purpose: Surface useful files, rated by quality
Users: Commons or Wikipedia users
Features

A quick rating tool to tag files that seem useful
Can be thumbs-up/down -- or compare 2 images
Sorting / filtering tools for ranking lists or galleries by rating

Try these demos

See also

File curation

Purpose

Curate new files to identify useful media for Wikipedia
Make it easier to tag files or nominate them for deletion

Users: All Commons patrollers (and Wikipedia curators?)

Features

A list where editors can preview files that need to be reviewed
A review tool that helps editors curate files more easily
Repackage existing tools in a better UI ('Nominate for deletion')

See also

Image patrol notes

Media finder

Purpose

Make it easier to add multimedia on Wikipedia articles
Help find quality media files and place them quickly

Users: Any Wikipedia or Commons user

Features

Expand the Visual Editor's 'Insert Media' tool
Support extended search by category, rating or review status
Easier to sort or filter recommended images in VE

Campaign tools

Purpose

Invite more users to join campaigns (e.g. Wiki Loves Monuments)
Make it easy for campaign organizers to set up campaigns
Make it easy for users to participate in campaigns -- and stay engaged

Users: Any user with a camera/phone -- and campaign organizers

Features

Tools for organizers to set up and customize campaigns
To-do lists with clear assignments for contributors to follow
Leaderboards and recent contributions to keep participants motivated

Slideshows

Purpose

Let readers view more images on topics they are interested in
Give contributors the option to create slideshows
Give editors a compact way to display many images on articles

Users: Any Wikipedia reader (player) -- or contributor (maker)

Features

Viewers can play slide-shows on a given topic, with optional audio
Creators can easily assemble sequences of images and sounds
Editors can easily add these slideshows to any article
The slideshow display could be integrated in the Media Viewer tool (see above)
The slideshow sequence could be done manually by using the current gallery tag

Try this slideshow mockup

File:User KLOTZ the Movie

See also