Hi folks,
Here’s this week's update on our global release of Media Viewer (1).
1. This week’s release
This week, we plan to enable Media Viewer on two more large sites: Italian and Russian Wikipedias — during tomorrow’s platform train, on Thursday, May 22. We're pushing back releases to other sites to coming weeks, so we can address current issues and avoid deploying to our largest sites right before a holiday. :)
2. Next releases
We now plan to release on the English and German Wikipedias on Tuesday, June 3, as part of a special deployment. This will give us more time to address new user feedback, with more focus on these communities. If all goes well with these releases, we then plan to deploy the tool on all wikis the following week, as described in our release plan. (2)
3. Feedback
Feedback from our onwiki discussions is surfacing great suggestions for improvement, which we are reviewing and discussing with community members. Links to these discussions are available in our release plan, and we invite you to post your own impressions on our main discussion page (3).
We also keep getting increasingly favorable feedback from our user surveys, across 8 languages:
* about 69% of 7,766 respondents so far find the tool useful, on average
* approval rates keep growing (French approval grew by 2 points to 72%, Hungarian by 3 points up to 62%)
* approval breakdown by language: French 70%, Spanish 80%, Dutch 61%, Portuguese 72%, Hungarian 62%
Learn more in our survey report (4), to be updated again after the English and German deployments.
4. Metrics
We are now tracking over 4.7 million image views globally, across 23 sites, as shown in our new global view dashboard (5). Overall performance has stabilized, and the longest image loads are now about 2.8 seconds for 90% of our users, 4.6 seconds for the 95th percentile and 16.4 seconds for the 99th percentile. Learn more in our global metrics performance dashboards (6).
5. Next steps
We are now working on a short list of issues from our community, and have added them to our current cycle board (6). We plan to gradually address the most pressing issues in coming weeks, while resuming our work on technical debt and the upload wizard upgrade. We are reaching out to community members to help us prioritize the most critical tasks in coming weeks.
Thanks to everyone who is helping us with this Media Viewer release! Gergo will send a separate update on other projects that our team is working on.
Best regards,
Fabrice
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation