Here are three topic suggestions, cc'ed here in case folks aren't following
the Flow, with an illustrative (but not exhaustive) list of sessions that
could fit under each:
*1. *(A unified vision for) *Collaboration*
- Real-time collaboration (not just editing, but chatting, curation,
patrolling)
- WikiProject enhancements: User groups, finding people to work with,
making these first class DB concepts
- Civility/diversity/inclusiveness, mechanisms to handle/prevent
harassment, vandalism, trolling while working together
- Real-time reading -- watching edits occur in real time
- Integration with WikiEdu
- Broadening notion of "an edit" in DB -- multiple contributors,
possibly multiple levels of granularity
- Tip-toeing toward "draft"/"merge" models of editing
- Better diff tools: refreshed non-wikitext UX, timelines, authorship
maps, etc.
*2. *Improving* Modular Wikitext Maintenance*
- Infoboxes from wikidata, categories from wikidata, wikidata in
commons, oh my!
- Visual editing of templates, alternative template mechanisms, etc
- Wikitext 2.0 -- how to shave off the rough edges but still provide a
text-based power-user editing interface
- Global pages, Global templates, etc
- Improving composition of text and media content on the page
- Moving to a Glossary model for LanguageConverter rules
- Splitting metadata (categories, page flags, etc) from content in the DB
*3. *(Doubling down on)* Machine Translation*
- Annotation service to record fine-grained translation correspondences
between wikis over time (not just at the time of first translation)
- Suggestion service to suggest new edits to wiki A when translated text
wiki B is modified (or vice-versa)
- Refactoring existing language converter pairs as (sometimes trivial)
translation engines, eg cyrillic-to-latin
- Building a translation engine in house, training it with translated
wiki pages, improving it over time, etc
- Tightly integrating the translation UX for everyone. More: one
community wearing babel fishes / Less: scattered villagers after the Tower
of Babel fell.
- Improving harassment/vandalism/civility/inclusiveness/diversity
mechanisms to handle these larger cross-cultural communities.
- i18n of global pages, global templates, etc. May need mechanisms to
allow translation of comments, for example.
--scott
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