vladjohn2013 wrote:

This proposal has been listed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects and we are filing a report to gather community feedback and share updates.

I'm not really sure bugzilla is the best venue for feedback on vauge project ideas - bugs should have (a single) well defined problem and what not. Brainstorming and implementation advice feedback is probably better suited to a mailing list or even on wiki (depending on context maybe even an rfc). (This is just my opinion which others probably dont share. I know there are a lot of things saying file bugs for mentorship project)

As for comment 0 - lightbox: seems to be treading the same path as multimedia viewer project. Make sure you are not duplicating efforts.

Root Category pages: that's somewhat dangerous territory performance wise (e.g. flatening an entire category tree dynamically to infinite depth is out of the question unless you have some fancy way of making it efficient that is beyond me.). I believe improvements can be made in this area if one is clever about it, but this is the type of thing you have to have a solid plan for that can be carefully evaluated before embarking on it. In particular the performance should be analysed analytically for worst case scenario. 1000 images is very far away from the scale we have to work with and wouldn't mean much.

For filtering - one possible idea in that area (if you ignore the category flattening aspect) is sorting category by different criteria (e.g. file size). A while ago I did something related to that in a prototype of image rating (combined with liangent's category work) the approach there gets less efficient the more sorting types you add, but if you have a reasonable number its probably fine efficiency wise. (See the sorting method button on http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/whichisbetter/index.php?title=Category:Images ) Making an extension that allows sorting images by various different criteria could make a good mentorship project.

Thank you for your feedback Brian!

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I'm not really sure bugzilla is the best venue for feedback on vauge project
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I'm not sure either but so far is the best tool we have found to push raw entries at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects trough a process that may end up in an actual project. I know wiki pages can also be used for this, but in practice Bugzilla turns out to work much better when it comes to get tech community feedback and to start actual planning work.

CCing Dereckson, who filed that project idea more a year ago.

I would like to note a precision, as I've just received a mail about that: this project in 2014 has to be built on the top of the Multimedia Viewer, which is now our lightbox / viewer software.

Adding a couple of Multimedia folks, then.

We'd be happy to help explore, but it does seem like there's a lot of duplicated effort here, and with the various search and metadata improvements that are/will be happening this year.

The part until "Another idea" has been done already as part of MultimediaViewer. The part after that does not overlap with current features or roadmap.

MultimediaViewer is very much a moving target currently, with major refactoring efforts going on, so developing somthing on top of it would not be a pleasant experience. The plan is to finalize things within a month; we hope to have some sort of plugin system so that community tools/gadgets can be easily integrated, but have no concrete plans yet, see https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/168 . Comments about what sort of functionality should be possible through plugins would be very welcome there.

Wikimedia will apply to Google Summer of Code and Outreachy on Tuesday, February 17. If you want this task to become a featured project idea, please follow these instructions.

In T59805#633421, @Tgr wrote:

MultimediaViewer is very much a moving target currently, with major refactoring efforts going on, so developing something on top of it would not be a pleasant experience.

@Tgr, do you still think that this proposal is not suitable for GSoC/Outreachy?

This task should probably be repurposed as a series of improvements to the stockphoto gadget for Wikimedia Commons. Its main authors can probably provide a list of things to do, but I can't find DieBuche in phabricator.

In T59805#1043108, @Qgil wrote:

In T59805#633421, @Tgr wrote:

MultimediaViewer is very much a moving target currently, with major refactoring efforts going on, so developing something on top of it would not be a pleasant experience.

@Tgr, do you still think that this proposal is not suitable for GSoC/Outreachy?

Not for those reasons (development of Multimediaviewer / Media Viewer is finished for now, so developing on top of it should not be problematic), but it is way too vague currently to be even called a proposal.

This is a message posted to all tasks under "Re-check in September 2015" at Possible-Tech-Projects. Outreachy-Round-11 is around the corner. If you want to propose this task as a featured project idea, we need a clear plan with community support, and two mentors willing to support it.

This is a message sent to all Possible-Tech-Projects. The new round of Wikimedia Individual Engagement Grants is open until 29 Sep. For the first time, technical projects are within scope, thanks to the feedback received at Wikimania 2015, before, and after (T105414). If someone is interested in obtaining funds to push this task, this might be a good way.

No, I don't disagree, this were a proposal before the Multimedia Viewer, so we should now offer concrete iterations of this viewer.

MediaViewer is unlikely to get major improvements in the foreseeable future, but the visual design for navigation was T77156. The search features envisioned by this proposal probably depend on the completion of T68108.