Wikimedia Conference 2010/Developers' Workshop/Topic brainstorms/Pre-workshop brainstorming list

Pre Workshop Brainstorming

Informal list of things we can maybe cover. Of course we'll have brainstorming sessions once we all arrive, but this list serves as a place to just jot ideas for now (so you don't forget them in a month).

• New-installer/schema abstraction
• "Support collation by a certain locale (sorting order of characters)" in all pages list and when listing categories. Trying to find a sustainable solution for localized sort orders for i) new wiki installations ii) when upgrading
  • Bring after years subcategories to the begin of a category ([http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Buildings_in_Dresden example).
• Developing a framework for libraries of the world and others to obtain subscriptions (with ISBN number) of yearly snapshots of WMF wikis including images e.g. in form of Blu-ray disks or harddisks (background: WMF wikis as prior art with publication dates beyond any doubt)
• Developing an enhanced extension of DumpHTML which allows to store MediaWiki dumps including images on different filesystems (Linux, Windows, CD/DVD ISO) with solution for "non-ASCII" filenames
• Develop someting like Collection, but then to create image packs.
• Follow up to the metadata discussion started in Paris.
• discussing the migration from wikibits.js et al. to jQuery.
• Testing user interface with Selenium
• NeilK will have some new multimedia upload interfaces to demo; feedback welcome
• Overhaul of the deletion schema
  • Make bigdeletes less of an intensive process
  • Retain integrity on deleted revisions (bug 18104[1] (links from mw m w))
  • Deprecate the archive table?
• Discuss possible OpenID/OAuth implementation for Wikimedia sites
• I'm still looking for someone to maintain or re-write FlickrLickr, a Flickr photo review tool that has been used to upload more than 10,000 CC-BY photos to Commons.--Eloquence 21:33, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
• Trevor Parscal will have lots of user experience stuff to talk about.
• What going on: Wikimedia-OpenStreetMap cooperation? Do some concrete things.
  • Who is interested to make a map session?
• Support for ZoomViewer-Gadget (viewer for huge images on commons)
• Easter eggs!
• Better communication workflow for upcoming sitechanges/software updates etc.
• Central notice system
• finishing ZIM integration for regular ZIM file export (see http://openzim.org/Roadmap)
  • discuss MediaWiki extension for manual ZIM file export (see http://openzim.org/Google_Sommer_of_Code_2010#Idea_1:_MediaWiki_extension_to_create_ZIM_files)
• Using Access-Control-Allow-Origin to add SUL autologin to *.wikimedia.org wikis on browsers that support it, see [2]
• Find a way to maintain Commonist and improved it (date and geocoords from exif-datas, more options, ...).
• Talk about GSoC this year
• Someone needs to improve the basic search on commons - search for licenses and metadata (even before any larger-scale rewrite)
• More