Wikimedia Conference 2010/Developers' Workshop/Notes

Notes from different sessions.

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

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, ...)

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.

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

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.

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