Happy new year, everyone!
Many thanks to all of you who contributed to our collective work on the multimedia front
last year!
We’re deeply grateful for all that you are doing to help create a richer media experience
--- and now that we have a full multimedia team, we look forward to making some great
progress together this year.
To kick off the new year, we just posted a proposed multimedia vision for 2016, which was
prepared with guidance from community members. We invite you to check it out here on
Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Multimedia_Features/Vision_2016
This hypothetical scenario is intended for discussion purposes, to help us visualize
together possible improvements to our user experience over the next three years. This
particular exploration proposes ways to integrate Wikipedia more closely with Commons, so
that Wikipedians could contribute or curate more easily to our free media repository,
wherever they are.
After you’ve viewed the video, we would be grateful if you could share your feedback in
this discussion:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Multimedia_Features/Vision_…
In coming weeks, we will be starting new discussions focusing on some important features
outlined in this overall vision, and would greatly appreciate your continued
participation, so we can make more informed decisions together as a movement. More on this
next week.
Thanks again for your thoughtful guidance. We look forward to more collaborations with
you!
All the best,
Fabrice
on behalf of the WMF Multimedia Team
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
fflorin(a)wikimedia.org
Wikipedia Profile:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
Multimedia Project Hub:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia