Many of these have already been mentioned, but just to sum it up:
* Better search functionality (esp. with images, some kind of gallery view), maybe on the basis of tagging or category keywords. * A more user-friendly editing interface. This might need some serious interaction models to avoid a WYSIWYG interface that doesn't quite work. Having a nifty AJAX editing interface might be pretty cool, but it will probably need some serious work to make it as responsive as Writely / Google Docs. However, it could really enable less tech-savvy people to write more and better formatted texts. * A simpler system for templates/themes. Maybe not necessary for Wikimedia-related projects (because they are all using Monobook anyway), but for customization of other users a template system such as in Wordpress ( www.wordpress.org) would be handy.
-- Hay Kranen / [[User:Husky]]
On 1/23/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/01/07, Titoxd@Wikimedia titoxd.wikimedia@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking from the technical side, there is a hurdle with the "vastly improved searches" that are requested, at least on one aspect.
Retrieving the results is one thing. Improving how they are displayed is something that could be improved on too. For example we lack a gallery-based search. (Special:Newimages only searches on image titles. The functionality is there, so why not extend it to image descriptions?)
As for categories: date of page creation is not stored in the tables
right
now; that would be ideally something for the page table. The time a page included in a category is already stored (or at least, there is room for
it), so that may be easier to do in the future. Dynamic sort tables have issues with older browsers, but maybe a sortby can be done by the server
as
well. These things do require a considerable amount of coding and
testing,
though.
Well, that's why it's my vision, and not my requests for next week. ;)
cheers, Brianna
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