Commons:Requests for comment/Technical needs survey

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Background

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Commons is facing many technical problems in the way of bugs and broken tools or needed missing features. In September 2022 the Commons:WMF support for Commons started working on some of these. A recent discussion on the Village pump showed that we never really decided what we as Commons users need to most. This survey should fill this gap and result in a priority list of the most urgent problems.

Many of this was already discussed with the Open letter of 2022: Commons:Think big - open letter about Wikimedia Commons.

Method

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For making this survey we use the same method as the annual m:Community Wishlist Survey of the WMF on Meta and de:Wikipedia:Technische Wünsche of Wikimedia Germany are using.

Timeline

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  • Until 24 December 2023 discuss the procedure of this survey and change it if needed (proposals can already be made but might need to become adjusted later)
  • Until 14 January 2024 submit and discuss proposals
  • 15 January 2024-21 January 2024 clustering and merging of proposals if needed
  • 22 January 2024-15 February 2024 vote on the proposals

Resulting list

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During proposal and voting all proposals are treated the same but after the voting there will be two separate lists. One list for fixing existing functionalities and tools and one list for the requested new features. Please consider this when creating proposals and split fixing and the request for new features for one tool into two proposals.

Proposals

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The voting is closed and the results are listed below. Discussing the proposals is still possible

Bugfixes

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Proposal Support votes Status/Comments
Handle multiple creators in MediaViewer 16
File upload stability 14 improved
Fix rsvg text alignment regression 10 Fixed
Fix the Image Annotator 5 Fixed

Feature requests

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Proposal Support votes Status/Comments
Categories on mobile 21
Wall of images view for category pages including images in subcats 19
Video conversion support 19
Video with multiple audio tracks 12
"Building block" tool to select files 10
Support textured meshes on Commons 8
UploadWizardSDC 8
Metadata editing tool 6
Priority thumbnail render queue 4
File verification 3
Checkbox to mark new files as current on upload 2
TimedText 2

Process requests

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Proposal Support votes Status/Comments
Taking on certain upload tools 19
Media dumps 8
Confirm mp4 for 2028 8
Massive support for video (or not) 7
Bots 7
PD vs. URAA 3
Proposal Support votes Status/Comments
CropTool 15
UploadWizard 9
Video2Commons 8
Special:Upload (simple upload form) 6
Flickr2Commons 6
Pattypan 4
Url2Commons 4
Mobile app 2
Twitter to commons 2
derivativeFX 2
Vicuna Uploader 1
The API itself/pywikibot/custom scripts 1
Study2Commons 1