The issue is still there. And I don't know if a new CEO will make things change: I assume that there are some team leaders reading this mailing list, but we hardly ever see progress. No one seems to be accountable.
Let's remember that we used to have a book creator that was broken on purpose to change to a new PDF creator that isn't still working property: more than three years ago I opened this ticket and I assume that no one is going to solve this ever: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209837. Because we have a LOT of money. Mountains of money. But there is no one driving our luxury car. Sincerely Galder ________________________________ From: Asaf Bartov <asaf.bar...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 10:08 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org>; Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <common...@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery) Yes, I did not purport to offer an easy solution. I tried to clarify *what needs to happen* for significant progress on these issues, without suggesting that it is easy to make that happen. As I mentioned, a new CEO is beginning work this week, and one of the (many) items on her to-do list is to improve and rationalize the Foundation's annual planning process, and cross-departmental planning and decision-making. Let's give her some time and wait for some guidance on this question of venue, i.e. how and where communities may *effectively* express needs and affect priorities. In the meantime, I repeat my suggestion that adding non-technical concise statements of impact to each issue would be a big help. For example, I (and many of you) know the impact of our slow/broken video conversion and upload workflows, but it would be helpful to add to SJ's "Bulk conversion for video uploads (videoconverter / video2commons are broken)" an impact statement such as "this is deterring video uploads from casual contributors". Cheers, A. (volunteer capacity) On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 10:45 PM Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com<mailto:meta...@gmail.com>> wrote: I appreciate all of the comments; still unsure where to more persistently host the conversation, but for now I posted this still-arbitrary list on Commons<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sj/multimedia>. (adding other items mentioned in this thread) SJ ~~~~ - File formats: Support high-demand formats – e.g. CSV, CML<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18491>, + hundreds of other<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297514> open tickets - Uploads: Improve bulk, large, and video uploads. + Bulk conversion for video uploads (videoconverter / video2commons are broken) + Upload Wizard upgrades (timeouts<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267492>, batch renaming, batch imports<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281599>) - Downloads: Fix multi-download (Imker<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Imker_(batch_download)> is broken) + Make public dumps<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298394> (stale since 2013) - Video playback: Debug + roll out the videojs<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248418> player - Search: Bring CQS back up<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297454>. Implement a noauth option<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297995> for tools - General: Move to a blazegraph alternative (for wqcs) + Images: Update thumbor<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216815> and librsvg<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193352> || redesign<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T28741> the image table - Curation: Simpler content assessment workflow, like en:wp's<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_assessment> (QI/VP doesn't scale) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/FVA4YJN5OHPRSLACPXYD4XITFG7NNKSL/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org> -- Asaf Bartov <asaf.bar...@gmail.com<mailto:asaf.bar...@gmail.com>>
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