Hi everyone,
This week's office hour: Wikitext! This discussion is intended to be
a continuation of the "Loosing the history of our projects to bitrot."
thread.
Coren stated the work in front of us very well at the start of it.
You know, this is actually quite troublesome: as the
platform evolves
the older data becomes increasingly hard to use at all - making it
effectively lost even if we kept the bits around. This is a rather
widespread issue in computing as a rule; but I now find myself distressed
at its unavoidable effect on what we've always intended to be a permanent
contribution to humanity.
The thread he started had pretty robust participation on a really
important, which seemed to us in ArchCom worth continuing the
discussion in one of our weekly office hours. So, after checking with
Subbu (in my list message) that's what ended up as the top candidate.
Subbu did some work to structure the conversation ([A Spec For
Wikitext][1]) and I did some cleanup of the [Wikitext page on
mw.org][2] as a possible hub for information on this topic, with
[Talk:Wikitext][3] providing a durable conversation venue.
Please join us to discuss this further Wednesday UTC
Time: Wednesday 21 UTC (2pm PDT, 23 CEST)
Place: #wikimedia-office
Phab event: [E259][4]
Rob
p.s. as always, ArchCom status updates continue on [ArchCom/Status][5]
[1]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Notes/A_Spec_For_Wikitext
[2]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikitext
[3]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikitext
[4]:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E259
[5]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status