There is a proposal for the upcoming Mediawiki Dev Summit to get us "unstuck" on support for non-linear revision histories in Wikipedia. This would include support for "saved drafts" of wikipedia edits and offline editing support, as well as a more permissive/friendly 'fork first' model of article collaboration.
I outlined some proposed summit goals for the topic, but it needs a bit of help if it is going to make the cut for inclusion. I hope interested folks will weigh in with some comments on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113004 --- perhaps suggesting specific "next step" projects, for instance.
Thanks for your help. --scott
On 11/6/15, C. Scott Ananian cananian@wikimedia.org wrote:
There is a proposal for the upcoming Mediawiki Dev Summit to get us "unstuck" on support for non-linear revision histories in Wikipedia. This would include support for "saved drafts" of wikipedia edits and offline editing support, as well as a more permissive/friendly 'fork first' model of article collaboration.
I outlined some proposed summit goals for the topic, but it needs a bit of help if it is going to make the cut for inclusion. I hope interested folks will weigh in with some comments on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113004 --- perhaps suggesting specific "next step" projects, for instance.
Thanks for your help. --scott
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I feel like different people want different things, and what is really needed is a user-centric discussion of use-cases to drive a feature wishlist, not any sort of discussion about implementation.
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On 7 November 2015 at 00:29, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
I feel like different people want different things, and what is really needed is a user-centric discussion of use-cases to drive a feature wishlist, not any sort of discussion about implementation.
Yes. I see the rationaie in that Phabricator ticket, but it reads like personal ideology without reference to the Wikimedia projects. What is the use case?
- d.
On 07/11/15 00:32, David Gerard wrote:
On 7 November 2015 at 00:29, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
I feel like different people want different things, and what is really needed is a user-centric discussion of use-cases to drive a feature wishlist, not any sort of discussion about implementation.
Yes. I see the rationaie in that Phabricator ticket, but it reads like personal ideology without reference to the Wikimedia projects. What is the use case?
Yeah, we need to figure out who all these different groups are, too. Who are doing similar things currently, and who would have use? Who already knows they want to do these things, and what can we ask them?
Apologies for the summit proposal reading like a manifesto. Drafts are a big use case, as is offline editing. Flagged revisions might use this as well. As a feature request it dates back to the dark days of the wiki. It certainly is an enabler for a lot of different editing/revision/collaboration models that people have proposed over the years. --scott
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