Multimedia:Meeting in Paris - Wikimedia Usability Initiative (original) (raw)

From Wikimedia Usability Initiative

Wikimedia France is organizing, in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation, a meeting in Paris related to multimedia participation on Wikimedia projects. It will take place on 6-8 November 2009.

IRC channel open during the entire meeting: #WikimediaMultimedia on <irc.freenode.net>.

Twitter hashtag: #WikimediaMultimedia

Relevant pages

• Documentation
  • Summary
• Participants
• Request for comments
• Brainstorming page (in English)
• Brainstorming page (in French)
• Demos
• schedule
• Article from Delphine, on Wikimedia France's blog (French)

Photos

See Category:Wikimedia Multimedia Usability Meeting 2009 on Wikimedia Commons.

• 
  Michael Dale presenting Add Media Wizard work
• 
  Michael Dale walking through his demos
• 
  Ryan Kaldari presenting his custom front-end for managing photo contests
• 
  Hay Kranen presenting the custom front-end developed by Wikimedia Nederlands for managing celebrity photo submissions (in the MediaWiki SVN repo now!)
• 
  Magnus Manske presenting his selection of crazy tools
• 
  Jan and Michael hacking
• 
  Ryan Kaldari and Samuel Klein
• 
  Magnus Manske and Brion Vibber
• 
  Mathias Schindler and Frank Schulenburg

Preparation

• Collect data before the meeting
  Preliminary user research
  Initial survey

Expectations

• Goals of the team: identifying major issues, exploring and assessing solutions, and coming up with a draft roadmap.
• We have an opportunity here to accomplish much more than "just" what the Ford team is able to do.
• Gathering of people with much experience, ideas and expertise; it would be a shame to only focus on the multimedia usability project, because we just can't address all issues.
• Joint projects: let the community, volunteers and chapters engage in activities and projects in a larger plan.
• Some areas of discussion (e.g. partnerships) may not fit exactly in the proposed workflow of the meeting; be bold and creative.