Hello everyone, Following up on the WISE <https://wise.wmcloud.org/> tool's announcement, we wanted to briefly explain why we are seeking community interest and support.
At the moment, WISE indexes only “Media of the Day” (~5,000 videos). Expanding this to cover the full Wikimedia Commons collection (millions of images) requires significant computational resources, especially large-scale GPU processing, along with storage and ongoing maintenance. Before moving in that direction, we want to understand: - Is this tool useful for the community? - Should we invest effort and resources to scale it further? - Are there any concerns we should address first? If you find WISE useful or promising, you can support or share feedback here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wise#Community_interest_and_support You can: - Add your support or comments on the page - Share use cases or ideas - Raise any concerns or suggestions Your input will help guide whether and how we expand WISE further. Thanks again for your time and feedback. Wise Tool: https://wise.wmcloud.org/ Regards, Gopa Vasanth On Sun, May 3, 2026 at 2:09 AM Vasanth Gopa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We would love to get your feedback on a tool we have been working on: > https://wise.wmcloud.org/ > > This is a search tool for images and videos on wikimedia. Currently is > searching only on media of the day (approximately 5000 videos). It searches > only the visual content of the file (not on metadata, filename, or > structured data). It also does face detection and recognition. > > Please give it a go. Here's some examples: > > *Semantic example queries:* > "man at a train station" > "एक व्यक्ति रेलवे स्टेशन पर" (Hindi) > "horse in an airplane" > "విమానంలో గుర్రం" (Telugu) > "man with a flower" > "pirate with a pistol" > > *Face search (select "Faces"):* > > Click the green "Image" button and paste an image URL > > Example inputs: > * https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Charlie_Chaplin.jpg > * > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Neil_Armstrong_pose.jpg > > [warning: some videos are ogv videos and your brownser may not play them, > so watch them on Commons, i.e., after clicking the search result, scroll > down to the media metadata table, and follow the link to commons] > > *Key features include:* > > * Semantic search using natural language to find relevant images on > Commons from the visual content only (not the structured data or > description, only the image itself) > * Face search: upload or paste a face image, and the tool will try to > identify and locate that person across images and videos, including > timestamps where they appear > * Audio search: search within audio files to find relevant segments > * Multilingual search: supports queries in multiple languages > > We are actively improving the tool and would really appreciate any > feedback, suggestions, or ideas from the community. Here's some more > immediate future plans: > > * Search on all wikimedia images (instead of only videos / media of the > day) > * Show similar images when uploading an image to suggest filenames, > categories, and other relevant metadata > > More technical details and a place to share feedback at > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wise > * Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424092 > * Announcement on Village pump: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Introducing_WISE%3A_Semantic_search_for_Commons_%28we%E2%80%99d_love_your_feedback%29 > Regards, > > Gopa Vasanth <https://gopavasanth.github.io/> > Twitter <https://twitter.com/gopavasanth1999> | LinkedIn > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gopa-vasanth/> | GitHub > <https://github.com/gopavasanth> | Gerrit > <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/gopavasanth> > > “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” > > -- Regards, Gopa Vasanth <https://gopavasanth.github.io/> Twitter <https://twitter.com/gopavasanth1999> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gopa-vasanth/> | GitHub <https://github.com/gopavasanth> | Gerrit <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/gopavasanth> “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
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