Today's RFC meeting was regarding general priorities for the coming
months (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_focus_2015).
One of the key issues discussed was the idea of widgets, which is a new
approach to representing and editing bundles of content (such as an
infobox or a graph).
We also talked about canonical formats, and whether content should be
stored in wikitext and extracted out (like a more sophisticated version
of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TextExtracts), or stored
elsewhere (e.g. Wikidata) and assembled. Gabriel Wicke noted the
importance of minimizing disruption for existing editors and tools, and
Bryan Davis suggested this could limit the flexibility editors now have.
This led us to discuss further what areas likely made sense to be
generated. I.E. graphs and data tables, probably not prose (but Daniel
Kinzler suggested possibly auto-generating prose if there was no
human-written prose).
We talked about some approaches to backend storage. Timo Tijhof
suggested allowing a page to be built from multiple blobs that reference
each other.
We talked about some approaches to widgets like infoboxes and inline
editing of templates more generally.
We also talked about testing coverage and code architecture guidelines.
Daniel Kinzler plans to update the document in response to feedback.
Matt Flaschen
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Log at
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