Submissions/Multimedia Overview
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This is an accepted submission for Wikimania 2014. |
- Submission no. 5031
How can we improve the multimedia experience on Wikipedia and its sister sites? In this session, we will present our vision for multimedia in coming years, as well as provide an update on new media tools under development by the Wikimedia Foundation's multimedia team.
- Title of the submission
- Multimedia Overview
- Date / Time
- Friday, 8 August at 11:30 GMT - Friday, 8 August at 11:30 GMT - Auditorium 2
- Type of submission
- presentation
- Author of the submission
- Fabrice Florin
- E-mail address
- fflorin
wikimedia.org
- Username
- Fabrice Florin (WMF)
- Country of origin
- USA
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Personal homepage or blog
- Multimedia team page
- Abstract
We will give an overview of our recent work and upcoming tools under consideration for improving both the user experience and technical infrastructure:
- Media Viewer
- Upload Wizard
- Structured Data (with Wikidata)
We will present our vision for multimedia, then focus on current projects, and identify some of the next tasks we're considering, based on community feedback from m:Roundtables/our roundtable discussions. (Updated slides coming soon, based on this recent project review meeting.)
This introduction will be presented by WMF’s multimedia team:
- Fabrice Florin (product manager/facilitator)
- Gilles Dubuc (senior engineer)
- Gergő Tisza (back-end engineer)
- Pau Giner (interactive designer)
To complement this quick overview of our multimedia projects, we will host a separate, in-depth discussion at Wikimania 2014:
- Multimedia Roundtable - with the Multimedia Team - Sun. Aug. 10, 11:30 GMT
See also these two related sessions, right after this multimedia overview:
- The State (and Fate) of Video in Wikimedia - with Andrew Lih and Fabrice Florin - Fri. Aug. 8, 12:00 GMT
- Freedom in motion: the state of open video and audio at Wikimedia - with Brion Vibber - Fri. Aug. 8, 12:30 GMT
- Track
- Technology, Interface & Infrastructure
- Length of session
- 30 minutes
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
- Yes
- Slides or further information (optional)
- see our current vision slides -- new slides coming soon
- Special requests
- None
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