User:Tfinc/2010DevConfReportBack

CrossWiki
- dissolved
- too many people in other groups
UX
- Lots of Demos shown
- Trying to make editing not suck
- Outline
  - Dialogs / Mini editors (mode based editing)
  - Skins
    - Easier to write and not make user scripts break
  - Multimedia (Commons)
    - Searching, managing, uploading
  - Search UI
Structured Data
- Integrating data from external sources
  - dbs and web services
- Structured Data
  - all revolves around templates / template parameters
- How do you store this data?
  - want to search and cache data
  - want an abstract/generic store
- Outline
  - Architect external services solutions
  - Talk about template parameters
  - Talk about storage engine
Offline
- Reasons for
  - Sometimes you don't have the internet
  - Remote African village only get updates from a guy on a scooter
- Current Initiatives
  - openZim project
    - wanting to officially integrate it into WMF services
  - kiwix, okawix
    - viewer applications
- Selections
  - How do you effectively collect the corpus ?
  - Use cases
    - School
    - Religious
      - "Interested in some of all of human knowledge"
  - Want a batch able solution
    - Perhaps the Pediapress extension can be generalized
- Contributions
  - How do you get individuals to contribute back offline
  - Possible ways (doesn't have to be an article edit)
    - Rate articles
    - Mark favorites
    - Questions to talk pages
- Outline
  - How do we make collections?
  - How do we facilitate contributions?
Organization
- Bug triage, patches ...
- GSOC
  - Have five slots to use
    - Extension management
    - General RDF export
    - Improve metadata support for uploading
    - Wiki source legal tool
    - Two potentials
      - Interwiki template transclusion
      - Javascript of semantic wiki
- Outline
  - Need to meet about everything else ...
    - Bug triage
    - Code / patch review