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For background information based on expenditure in previous years, please see: | For background information based on expenditure in previous years, please see: | ||
* [[2012 Activity Plan/Toolserver]]. | * [[2012 Activity Plan/Toolserver]]. | ||
=== Europeana mass upload tool project === | |||
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| style="width: 100px; text-align: left;" | £60,000 | |||
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| style="width: 100px; text-align: left;" | Fæ | |||
! style="text-align: left;" | '''[[User:Mike Peel/2013 Budget#Europeana mass upload tool project|Board approved summary]]''' | |||
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: '''Primary contact''': Fae | |||
We are supporting the development of a Toolserver/MediaWiki extension that provides the facility to upload media files en mass to the Wikimedia projects - specifically content that is provided via content partnerships from partner organisations. The development of this extension is being led by Europeana, and is being financially supported by the budgets of Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Nederlands and Wikimedia Deutschland, and is also being supported by the Wikimedia Foundation to ensure that the resulting code is deployed on the Wikimedia projects. | |||
This is a strategically important project on the basis that it aims to remove the bottleneck constraining the expansion of Wikimedia Commons that is due to the lack of an appropriate facility to upload and appropriately categorize significant quantities of media files (i.e. upload batches in excess of 100 files) to the project. | |||
This project was started in 2012, and is expected to conclude in 2014 with the successful deployment of the extension to the Wikimedia projects. [[User:Fæ|Fae]] is the Board's representative on the steering committee, and as such has responsibility for providing reports and financial recommendations to the WMUK board on this topic. | |||
Our initial commitment was for €160,000, (approx £131,200) over two years. We estimate that we will have contributed £31,609 so far leaving a residue of £99,591. Given our reduced budget and the real possibility the project may be scaled down we are proposing a commitment of £60,000. | |||
The risk to WMUK is that the project does not proceed if other chapters currently encountering financial uncertainty decided to withdraw. This could mean the project will not have made any progress and the funds to date wasted. | |||
Revision as of 12:36, 11 May 2013
Toolserver
| Amount: | £10,000 | Budget holder: | Mike Peel | Board approved summary |
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- Primary contact: Mike Peel
We will continue to support the Wikimedia Toolserver, which is operated by Wikimedia Deutschland, throughout this financial period. The Toolserver is widely used by the Wikimedia community to enable automated editing, statistics and other tools to keep Wikipedia running smoothly. This support will be provided via a grant to Wikimedia Deutschland.
The Wikimedia Foundation is currently establishing the Wikimedia Labs (WL), which will incorporate the role of the current Toolserver. However, the WL currently do not have the technical capacity to host the projects that are currently operating on the Toolserver. As such, this grant helps ensure that the facilities provided by the Toolserver will continue throughout this WMUK financial year.
We will ensure that our two contract developers pay due attention to the work carried out by the Toolserver project.
For background information based on expenditure in previous years, please see:
Europeana mass upload tool project
| Amount: | £60,000 | Budget holder: | Fæ | Board approved summary |
|---|
- Primary contact: Fae
We are supporting the development of a Toolserver/MediaWiki extension that provides the facility to upload media files en mass to the Wikimedia projects - specifically content that is provided via content partnerships from partner organisations. The development of this extension is being led by Europeana, and is being financially supported by the budgets of Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Nederlands and Wikimedia Deutschland, and is also being supported by the Wikimedia Foundation to ensure that the resulting code is deployed on the Wikimedia projects.
This is a strategically important project on the basis that it aims to remove the bottleneck constraining the expansion of Wikimedia Commons that is due to the lack of an appropriate facility to upload and appropriately categorize significant quantities of media files (i.e. upload batches in excess of 100 files) to the project.
This project was started in 2012, and is expected to conclude in 2014 with the successful deployment of the extension to the Wikimedia projects. Fae is the Board's representative on the steering committee, and as such has responsibility for providing reports and financial recommendations to the WMUK board on this topic.
Our initial commitment was for €160,000, (approx £131,200) over two years. We estimate that we will have contributed £31,609 so far leaving a residue of £99,591. Given our reduced budget and the real possibility the project may be scaled down we are proposing a commitment of £60,000.
The risk to WMUK is that the project does not proceed if other chapters currently encountering financial uncertainty decided to withdraw. This could mean the project will not have made any progress and the funds to date wasted.