Commons:Requests for comment/Technical needs survey

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Background

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

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

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

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

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

Bugfixes

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

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

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

Upload tool poll

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