Grants talk:IEG/Batch uploader for small GLAM projects/Midpoint

Report accepted

Dear Yarl,

It was great to meet with you and Alex Stinson during Wikimania last week to learn about the exciting work you've completed on Pattypan. It's clear that your tool will go very far toward resolving longstanding technical barriers to contributions from GLAM partners and I'm looking forward to seeing its impact over time.

As discussed, I'd link you to finish the learning pattern and next steps sections of this report, but I'm going ahead and approving your midpoint now so as not to delay further progress on this project.

I'm also pinging @Astinson (WMF): requesting brief written documentation of relevant comments and outstanding issues discussed in Esino Lario for the team's review and to guide my own follow-up (thanks, Alex!).

Our grants administrator will be in touch shortly with information about your next disbursement.

Warm regards,

--Marti (WMF) (talk) 12:01, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Hey all,

I have a few notes from our meeting, and User:AWossink and I are available for further conversation with the development team in the near future to isolate more feature requests, etc. Here are the first couple things I had in my notes:

• Wikimedia Netherlands is in the process of stress testing the tool, providing direct user feedback, where the workflows break down.
• Currently the reporting strategy for testing if their is in a error in one of the media file uploads, is rather cryptic and not very human readable -- one suggestion was to be able to export a spreadsheet with some type of formatting indications of what wasn't working - or making the error reports more sortable and easier to work with in a list.
• It might be worth exploring other spreadsheet formats (currently .xls is a very different format than .xlsx, Google Spreadsheets, or other common save formats (csv or tsv, for example), or making a non-Java RTE dependent executable but neither is MVP.
• We may want to figure out how to create a human usable workflow for getting permission to use the tool. We talked about something like any upload of more than 50-100 images needing some type of user permission (like AWB and/or other tools).

Generally though, really excited -- and looking forward to when Arne and I can meet with you all again, to help with expanding the use case stories, and making the project ready to be used by a wider range of folks.Astinson (WMF) (talk) 15:24, 30 June 2016 (UTC)