Hello! My apologies if you see similar announcements across platforms, we are hoping to reach as many interested folks as possible.

We are having a community conversation and demonstration of a new tool in development, View it!. Please join us (anyone is allowed to attend) on Wednesday, August 31st at 16:00 UTC/12 pm EST. If you’re interested in learning more but are unable to attend, please feel free to email me, or visit our Meta page and sign up for updates (or beta testing).

View it! is a tool that will show Wikipedia users (editors and hopefully readers, too) relevant Wikimedia Commons media depicting - or otherwise related to - the article they are viewing. 

The number of images displayed in a Wikipedia article is finite and highly curated by editors; through View it! users will have access to the full catalog of images available on Wikimedia Commons. View it! will increase discoverability of Wikimedia Commons uploads and encourage contributors to utilize Commons and structured data.

Please join Dominic Byrd-McDevitt (User:Dominic), Kevin Payravi (User:SuperHamster), and Jamie Flood (User:JamieF) to share more about the vision for View it! and have a community conversation about functionality of the tool and suggestions for structured data to be utilized. 

We look forward to chatting with you and hope you’ll join us!

Thank you,

Dominic, Kevin, & Jamie