Multimedia:Brainstorming

This page is used by the team to note down ideas & things to remember later. Please do not use it as a general brainstorming page.

• Multimedia:Permission review workflow
• easy transfer from any Wikimedia / $wgForeignFileRepos-enabled MediaWiki wiki to Commons
• transparent upload from any Wikimedia / $wgForeignFileRepos-enabled MediaWiki wiki to Commons
  • => must deal with the "watchlist issue"
• red / page background color flag for possible copyright violations
• Configurable settings for wikis with an EDP; most usual cases; auto-resize if resolution is too high
• view stats inc. geo information (to see if the audience is local or not)
• drag-and-drop from the desktop to the browser

January 2011 brainstorming

• Enable cross-origin request sharing to Apache config for upload.wikimedia.org -- this enables browser-based editing and other forms of reuse. Since upload.wikimedia.org holds no user secrets this is safe.

• When temp uploading stable and lasts for days/weeks, then allow bulk uploads with FTP, etc.
  • temporary duration of files set by configuration or policy

• Licenses in the database.

• Searchable by license / license characteristics

• What does Toolserver do -- these are candidates for making into "real" features
  • We don't really know everything that's on the Toolserver does -- survey, inventory, somehow?

• See stats about how many times image viewed / full size download / trackback for used?

• Queue of articles that need images or illustrations
  • Failed example -- JIRA with Greenspun project
  • Successful example -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphic_lab ? Move this to Commons? (Kaldari-- this is successful because it's a shared community).
  • Successful example -- reward board
  • Successful example -- WikiCup

• Way to regenerate all thumbnails
  • Possible to do this by storing relationship between an image and all derivative transformations, then expiring the first

• Brainstorm**2 about ways to involve community better
  • Fame: Blogposts about contributors (e.g. Bryan Tong Minh)