Guillaume Paumier | 2 Dec 2009 10:12
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Re: Usability initiative for Commons

Hi,

Daniel Kinzler a écrit :
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> I don't know about you, but I didn't know about
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Usability_issues_and_ideas>. Seems
> like a good place to raise issues that the upcoming multimedia usability project
> could have a look at.

Well, it's the multimedia usability project team who created this page, 
so yes, we'll definitely "have a look" at it :)

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Guillaume Paumier | 2 Dec 2009 10:15
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Help us collect good ideas to improve Wikimedia Commons

Dear all,

As part of the Multimedia Usability project, we are currently doing what 
is called "Domain research". Basically, it means that we look at how 
similar websites work and how they deal with the same issues we 
encounter. Since our goal is to make Wikimedia Commons more usable, we 
want to look at other media sharing platforms, such as Flickr, Youtube, 
Fotopedia, Picasa web, Panoramio, etc.

I would like to ask for your help to accomplish this research. It can 
take a lot of time if only one person is doing it. On the contrary, if 
ten or twenty people step in and all do a small part, we can collect 
helpful data very quickly. Besides, it is always better to have several 
people with different perspectives look at the data we collect, in order 
to better see the “big picture”.

Your help is crucial in order to move quickly towards the requirements 
definition phase and the actual development. I have already prepared a 
list of websites and a few questions we are asking ourselves; they 
should facilitate the collection of data that can then be used directly 
by the team.

Please join us and make your contribution to the Domain research page on 
the Usability wiki; 
http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia:Domain_research/Upload

Many thanks in advance for your help.

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David Gerard | 5 Dec 2009 12:26
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Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Anyone visiting V&A with a camera soon?

Thomas Dalton just volunteered for something. Anyone got favoured V&A
exhibits we don't have a pic of? Get back to him with room,
collection, cabinet, etc :-)

- d.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@...>
Date: 2009/12/5
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Anyone visiting V&A with a camera soon?
To: wikimediauk-l@...

I have an afternoon to kill in London this Thursday and I own a
digital camera. I'm not sure I've ever been to the V&A, so I wouldn't
mind a visit. Give me a list of things to photograph!

2009/12/4 David Gerard <dgerard@...>:
> I just wrote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphonicon . I notice
> there's one in the V&A, and the V&A is quite happy to have people
> taking photos to put in Wikipedia ... anyone stopping by any time
> soon?
>
>
> - d.
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David Gerard | 23 Dec 2009 22:16
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Now here's an interesting thing

From the people who brought you VLC:

http://vlmc.org/

They're writing a video editor.

- d.
Michael Dale | 29 Dec 2009 02:13
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mwEmbed gadget updates and improved subtitle support

Wanted to do a quick mention of the updated mwEmbed gadget and subtitles 
support on the email list(s) in case people have missed its mention on 
the village pump [1] or other venues.

* On commons the "Commons:Timed_Text" and "Template:Closed_cap" have 
been started.

* oggHandler has been patched to support "itext" [2], [3] output so that 
it would not need to hit the api to get the list of available subtitles 
when we are embedding locally. Remote embedding outside of wikimedia 
domain grabs the up-to-date list of available tracks via an api call.

* A basic "Add timed text" interface is accessible from the "cc" button 
letting you "upload" an srt file.

* If you enable the mwEmbed gadget on English wikipedia ( or other 
wikipedias ) it will display commons subtitles in the respective 
wgUserLanguage. ( Interface translations are temporarly dissabled per 
bug 21947 which should be "resolvable" as soon as the release is branched.

* Even with extremely limited exposure the number of subtitle files is 
starting to grow: [4]

* The timedText display supports inline "wiki-text" so persons names, 
subjects and place of interest can be linked to their respective 
wikpedia articles in their respective languages from the srt text. [5]

* Gadget feedback has been very good. Big thanks to all that have helped 
test and especially User:84user with his very detailed reports ;)

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