Multimedia
2 statements.
| Author | Tags | Primary Session | Secondary Sessions | Position Statement |
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| Anne Gomez | Multimedia, Strategy, Structured Data | Advancing the Contributor Experience |
Wikimedia properties need to keep pace with the norms of browsing and information consuming behavior to stay relevant, grow readership, and bring new editors to add their knowledge to repository. We need to support smaller content types - both for contributions and for consumption. At the same time, we need to support multimedia content, from video to interactive graphics to augmented reality. Structured data will allow us to be more flexible in our presentation of information, and create more complex interactions with that information. Video and audio will open the doors to new contributors and new projects. Content consumers online now, whether among the highly connected or using the internet for the first time, are looking for the right information available to them at the right time. They don't necessarily want long, encyclopedic content, but instead prefer snippets of information served to them just when they need it. And they learn through more immersive experiences - video, augmented reality, interactive graphics - rather than long form text. Even beyond that, huge portions of the world can't access our content for a number of reasons: they don't have internet access, they can't read, their languages don't have keyboard support, there isn't content in their language. The internet as a whole is evolving to meet these changing needs. Messaging apps support walkie-talkie like communication, Google serves just the right answer to any question (in English), and language support for smaller languages is growing cross-platform. Our infrastructure needs to meet these needs. | |
| Thomas Pellissier Tanon | Analytics, API, Collaboration, JavaScript, Lua, Mobile, Multimedia, Structured Data, User Experience, Wikibase, Wikidata | Knowledge as a Service |
Title: Content structuration and metadata are keys to fulfil our strategy Content: The Wikimedia mouvement strategy is making a focus on serving more different kinds of knowledge and sharing them with allies and partners [1]. I believe that the most important ground work for reaching these goals is to focus on the outgoing project of moving MediaWiki from a "wikitext plus media file" collaboration system to a platform allowing people to be able to collaborate on many kind of contents and to organise them in a cohesive way. Two axes seem important to me to pursue this goal: 1. Support a broader set of different contents, not just wikitext, Wikibase items and Lua/JavaScript/CSS contents but also images, sounds, movies, books, etc., that should bee editable just like wiki text pages in order to allow people to improve them in a collaborative way. 2. Build platforms and tools allowing contributors to create and clean metadata about these contents in order to build together the broadest cohesive set of knowledge ever available and increase its reusability. Going in these directions would allow us to:
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