Talk:Engineering vision

My initial revisions

Thank you, Theo10011 for giving me the invitation to contribute to this document. I think you nailed the general principles but I wanted to explain some of my changes.

• We mustn't be too romantic: describing Wikipedia as Web 1.0 is wrong, since Web 2.0 means the era of users editing the internet and collaborating. Also as I understand it, UseModWiki wasn't fantastic, so we need to address MediaWiki, which is a pretty fantastic collaboration platform.
• I made an initial attempt to address some of the ways in which we are diverging from the rest of the internet: requiring users to code, for example. We need to explain the advantages of having what is a Turing-complete programming language at our fingertips.
• In the light of MediaViewer's borked attribution mechanism and the Share-a-fact extension, we need to highlight the importance of respecting the free licenses Wikimedia uses.

But as I say, thanks a lot for writing this essay. I hope that we will be able to present it to the community and to the WMF and that it will have a positive impact. BethNaught (talk) 18:12, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you BethNaught. Please feel free to edit further, as you see fit and refer anyone else you think might be helpful, to do the same. I found your perspective very helpful, it was eloquent yet described something so innate that we all must overlook it at times about what makes a wiki, wiki. I want something constructive to come out of all those botched attempts, and disappointment - hopefully we can channel that into something like a vision document for later. Thanks again. Kind regards. Theo10011 (talk) 19:49, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

A similar take

Another contributor recently shared a similar take on developing wiki extensions. Though folks here might be interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Risker/Risker%27s_checklist_for_content-creation_extensions CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21:46, 5 February 2016 (UTC)