Erik Moeller, 27/06/2014 03:55:
As an update on the goals process for WMF engineering, we've begun fleshing out out the top priorities for the first quarter.
This has already been an interesting and useful exercise, I feel. Those are indeed goals which need help from everyone who can. Which brings me to:
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- The content API that Gabriel is working on (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Content_API ) is called out as a top priority. This is because the Parsoid output (for which the content API will be a high performance front-end) is now getting to the point where it's starting to become plausible to increasingly use it not just for VisualEditor, but also for views as well.
This is something I encourage everyone on this list to play with. I spent a couple days on Parsoid's output for it.wiki and it's been fun, finding many things to report: while reasonable pages are rarely very broken, on a random page there is some 50 % chance of finding some visual glitch.
My favourite toy to this purpose is Kiwix: * download a recent file for your favourite wiki at http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/ , * download Kiwix to open it http://download.kiwix.org/nightly/bin/latest/ , * start pressing "random page" and report surprises e.g. to https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/bugs/
Nemo