[Wikitech-l] Content WG: Templating, Page Components & editing

TL;DR: Join us to discuss Templates, Page Components & editing on Thu, 13 August, 12:45 – 14:00 PDT [0]. Hello all, Recent discussions, including the pre-Wikimania content brainstorming [2][3], brought up several important questions about the next steps for MediaWiki's and particularly Wikimedia's content representation, storage, change propagation, and caching. Many of those questions directly affect ongoing work, so it would be good to get more clarity on them soon. To this end, I am proposing we meet every two weeks & discuss one major area at a time. I think we have enough topics for four meetings over two months [2][3], after which we can re-evaluate the approach. As the first topic, I would like to propose *Templates, Page Components & editing*. Gradual improvements in this area should let us broaden the support for different devices, improve the editing experience, and speed up rendering and updates. There has been a lot of discussion and activity on this recently, including a talk by C.Scott at Wikimania [4], Jon's Wikidata-driven infoboxes on the mobile site [5], Marius's Lua-based infobox programming idea [6], and Wikia's declarative infobox components [7]. This summary task [8] has a list of related resources. Concretely, we could try to answer these questions: - Can we find satisfactory general abstractions for page components (well-formed content blocks)? - What are the requirements for editing, RL module / metadata aggregation, dependency tracking? - Should we evolve wikitext templates into well-formed page components? Please join us at: *Thu, 13 August, 12:45 – 14:00 PDT* [0] - by joining the BlueJeans conference call [1], - on IRC, in #wikimedia-meeting, or - in Room 37 in the WMF office. See you there, Gabriel [0]: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150813T1945 [1]: https://bluejeans.com/2061103652, via phone +14087407256, meeting id 2061103652 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99088 [3]: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Content_platform [4]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Templates_are_dead!_Lon… [5]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein?mobileaction=alpha [6]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Capiunto [7]: http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:841717, http://infoboxpreview.appspot.com/ [8]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105845