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Community Picks: Media of the Day from Commons Module
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Description

Background

Wikimedia Commons features a daily Media of the Day — one freely licensed audio or video file selected each day for display on the Commons Main Page. A unique aspect of this feature is that captions are intentionally published to allow the community to translate them into other languages, reflecting the collaborative, multilingual spirit of the Wikimedia movement. Surfacing this in the explore feed gives readers a more dynamic and varied content experience beyond static articles and images.

User Story

As a reader browsing the Community Picks feed, I want to see the media of the day from Wikimedia Commons, so that I can discover freely licensed audio and video content curated by the Wikimedia community.

Requirements

  • The module should display the title "Media of the day" with the subtitle "One freely-licensed audio or video file selected each day by the Wikimedia Commons community"
  • The module should display the media at full card width with a play button overlay and duration indicator in the bottom right corner. If playing within the feed is greater than an XL, there is room for opening media in a separate screen that isn't visually jarring
  • Tapping the card should launch the media player inline or in a full screen player
  • A caption describing the media should be displayed below the player
  • A share icon should be accessible directly on the card
  • The module should handle both audio and video file types gracefully, with an appropriate player UI for each
  • The three dot more menu should be present on the module per the shared menu behavior (Task 2)
  • Content should be sourced from Wikimedia Commons and should appear regardless of the user's selected language wiki
  • Tapping the card should launch the media in our existing full screen player
  • Add into Settings in its correct order: Featured Article, Top Read, Did You Know, Today's Featured Picture (from the language), In the news, On this day, Picture of the day (from Commons), Media of the day (Commons)

Design Link

Variants: Audio and Video -Figma link →

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Event Timeline

Seddon triaged this task as Medium priority.Mar 17 2026, 4:47 PM
TLessa-WMF added a subscriber: HNordeenWMF.

@HNordeenWMF let's connect about this component - we need engineer input here in terms of native components/ library we could use for the media player - because "media of the day" has files with diverse proportions and quality, my recommendation is to use the thumbnail of each video, cropped, so it always looks nice and consistent. Then from here, on tap, the media can be opened on the native player. I am not sure how this could work in production, so we will need to sync to solve this. If media=music, a gradient colour thumbnail will be placed since music has no preview.

Dbrant set the point value for this task to 8.Mar 30 2026, 5:54 PM
HNordeenWMF lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Mar 30 2026, 8:31 PM
HNordeenWMF raised the priority of this task from Low to Medium.Apr 20 2026, 10:18 PM
Dbrant changed the point value for this task from 8 to 13.Apr 23 2026, 11:05 PM
HNordeenWMF lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Apr 24 2026, 6:42 PM