User:Steinsplitter/wikitechml

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Hi,

I wanted to bring to your attention a few critical issues that are negatively affecting the work of the Commons community and the wider Wikimedia projects.

First, there are about 36 unresolved bugs [0] in the "Media storage" component. Swift is a vital component of the projects' ability to show images and other media, and it having so many open bugs causes serious ongoing issues, not only on Commons, but everywhere.

Some of these bugs are high priority, and have been open since 2012. The community of admins are straining under the load, and it's not getting any better now that additional paths into the upload pipeline are becoming available.

UploadWizard, too, is fundamentally broken. There are a *lot* of open bugs [1] [2] and the interface is in need of design love.

It would be awesome to see these issues addressed in the coming months. In particular, because Wiki Loves Monuments will start in September, it would be great to have these issues fixed on or before August 13th, giving Commons about two weeks to test the fixes and changes before the contest starts, and plenty of room for backporting urgent fixes.

Regards,
Steinsplitter
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Steinsplitter

[0] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?component=Media%20storage&product=Wikimedia&resolution=---
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Commons:Upload_help/Archive
[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?component=UploadWizard&product=MediaWiki%20extensions&resolution=---

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