In 2014 and 2015, I led the File metadata cleanup drive, a community effort to fix file description pages and tweak license templates, to ensure that multimedia files consistently contain machine-readable metadata across Wikimedia wikis.
Every week, tech ambassadors assemble, simplify and translate “Tech News,” a curated newsletter then delivered to hundreds of subscribers across wikis. But how exactly did this start, how does it work behind the scenes, and how does it fit within our efforts to bring developers and users closer together?
As part of the Multimedia Usability project, in collaboration with illustrator Michael Bartalos, I led a project to design a licensing tutorial with the Wikimedia Commons community, and integrate it into the new UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons.