User:Tfinc/2010DevConfThurReportBack

• Thoughts on the dev conf
• Getting chat in the web interface
• Accessibility talk
  • Interesting to see screen readers
  • did developers really learn something?
• translate wiki
  • general intro and call for help
  • will people really help out?
• openZim
  • are we adopting openZim as the official format
  • still need to get static html dumps working
• selenium
  • mostly about the cool things that it can do with its framework
  • should extension developers write their own selenium tests
    • YES!
  • should we put it into core?
    • Good framework but still needs some work
• flagged revisions
  • edits from anonymous contributions have decreased dramatically (even before flagged revs)
• wiki pics
  • it works but is slow on the toolsever
  • daniel wants to write an api for it so that we can script against it
• rtl for offline readers
  • crazy problems when you deal with semitic languages
  • not much talk off offline
• liquid threads
  • when do we get it .. some already have it.
  • mw.org has it, translate wiki has it .. and maybe others...
• semantic
  • main presenter missing
• interactive drill down
• women in wikimedia
  • danese put up notes
  • looked at what had been done, open questions ..
  • moka wants to the do researchers
  • danese wants to do a tea party
• external data integration
  • didn't really happen
  • open knowledge foundation as a data source
• tool server / open street map
  • figured out where we got stuck
    • need someone to set up the renderer

* likely not couple of months

• • need better licensing of the tools
  • access data
    • want to keep domas stats around longer
    • wmf bought a dataset server .. lets use it
• template scripting
  • current templates suck .. lets fix it
  • vvv has a nice proposed solution that were going to be exploring
• mobile
  • Review of m.
  • Review of Wikia Mobile skin
    • Had editing
    • Contributions
      • Edits
      • Spelling Errors
      • Images
      • Rating of articles
• new installer
  • old installer was horrible
  • now were storing config info in session data
  • beginnings of a help system
  • now internationalized
  • code is much cleaner and extensible
    • can now do a cli interface
  • backend is now solid but the front end is a bit dated
    • roan is fixing it up
• openId/OAuth
  • wmf wont do it now but how about contractor
  • we need to agree on the design
    • ryan is leading the dev efforts
  • three tasks
    • wmf as a provider
    • wmf as a consumer
    • oauth within for the api
• screen reader demo
  • lots of people played with it
  • ux needs to have a device like this for testing
• meta data search
  • lots of projects trying to improve search on commons
    • not so easy
  • gsoc metada student needs to know about search
  • need to think about meta data and structured data together
• zoom viewer
  • currently running on the tool server for commons
• recent changes through xmpp
  • daniel will try to implement
  • want to push info about wiki changes out instead of pulling
    • currently we have irc but it cuts off at 500 byes