Talk:Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Wikimedia, now in 3D

Note about the future

For those who are really interested in 3d, perhaps we should add why we are only adding support for STL now and what our plans for the future are?

Intent

I don't want to mess up the draft, so I'm writing something here, I thought it might work better to quote me, but feel free to take that and turn it into part of the body, that's fine too. Feel free to rephrase my text as well, even if it remains a quote.

When I attended the Jerusalem hackathon, I looked for the community wishlist project with the highest impact I could help with. Having worked on building the Media Viewer extension, and being familiar with 3D, this wishlist item seemed like something I could do. In terms of impact, the #NEWPALMYRA project, the destruction in Syria and the fate of Bassel Khartabil were fresh on my mind at the time. The great importance of these free knowledge projects inspired me to work on 3D integration for Wikimedia projects, to give a better platform to view the hard work people like Bassel put into documenting history.

I don't know if I would have felt this project was that important if it wasn't for #NEWPALMYRA and Bassel. It's critical that humanity can see (and print!) what cannot be visited in person anymore. Which is why, in memory of Bassel Khartabil, we have collaborated with #NEWPALMYRA for the first 3D model uploaded to Wikimedia Commons to be from that project.

I thank the Multimedia team for picking up my hackathon project, improving it and releasing it for all Wikimedians to use. I can't wait to see the great content editors will upload. --GDubuc (WMF) (talk) 13:43, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Picture

There are several pics on Commons from Wikimania of Bassel's Tetrapylon (that should be CC0), FWIW. Elitre (WMF) (talk) 16:18, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Model

Even better than a picure, is it possible to embed the first model? Ainali (talk) 22:24, 20 October 2017 (UTC)