Wikimedia Conference 2010/Developers' Workshop/Notes

Notes from different sessions.

Day 1 (Wednesday)

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Usability experience (UX)

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  • wysiwyg editing - Trevor showed his prototype of splitting wikitext into block, so separated visual edit tools (e.g. normal text, bulletins, templates etc) would be developed
  • the "other" wysiwyg editor from wikia (CKEditor) - showed mini-editors for templates and images. Full presentation at 4pm today.
  • the third wysiwyg editor (Wikied) - JavaScript parser - for power users, available as Gadget on en.wp. Works best on firefox, works on webkits and opera 10 (with some bugs), almost works on IE.
  • Agenda for the afternoon: dialogs, skins, commons UI

Structured Data

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  • Live notes at /Strucured Data.
  • First session after lunch will be about Using MW templates for managing structured data (do we need better declarations of template parameters? datatypes? data extraction from templates, ...)
  • The other main topic of the group is Data import/re-use from external sources (live import vs. data integration, caching, push vs. pull, versioning issues, trust and provenance)
  • Both of these main topics may lead to technical implications re MW (extension) development (storage backend, parser, ...)

Organization

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  • Worked on Priority Ranking for Google Summer of Code proposals since we have a deadline one week away to fine-tune to make sure most promising proposals are accepted. Notes available at /OrganizationWorkingGroup
  • We'll be meeting again tomorrow to work through the rest of the topics we'd identified.

Wrapup Notes

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Day 2 (Thursday)

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Accessibility

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  • presentation on WAI-ARIA as one means for better accessibility (slides available)

Organization

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  • Picked up the rest of the topics queued for discussion during Day 1, including: Bug Triage, Volunteer Developer Outreach, Expansion of QA, Verson Control, Code Review / Patch Management. Notes at /OrganizationWorkingGroup have been updated.

WikiWomen

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  • Women at the event met over lunch on the second day to discuss the state of gender diversity in Wikimedia. Notes at /WikiWomen
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Wrapup Notes

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