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Event:Commons community discussion - 15 January 2025 16:00 UTC
Commons community discussion - 15 January 2025 16:00 UTC
Organized by: Sannita (WMF), GVarnum-WMF
Start and end time
16:00, 15 January 2025 to 17:00, 15 January 2025
Location
Online event
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In the coming months, the Wikimedia Foundation will be hosting a series of community conversations with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year.
The topic for the January 2025 discussion will be tool investment priority. There are constant calls from the community for the Foundation to adopt community-made tools in order to maintain workflows for the contributors that depend on them. The range of these tools varies widely, and includes media upload (e.g. Video2Commons), editing (e.g. CropTool), curation (e.g. Cat-a-lot) and metrics (e.g. BaGLAMa) tools. Batch upload and metrics tools are said to be critical for the affiliates and Wikimedians in Residence who partner with libraries and other cultural institutions to illustrate Wikipedia. They need to be able to contribute files efficiently at scale, and report on the impact of these contributions. However, community surveys have identified more than 30 different tools that are used for content partnerships.
More specifically the questions will be:
- Does it make sense for the Foundation to invest in supporting the wide range of community-developed tools that don’t have active maintainers, or should a smaller set of critical workflows be enabled through new or improved features in core products?
- Which tool would you recommend to prioritise? Something community-facing or GLAM-facing or video-related or something else?