On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, at 5:29, Mark Holmquist wrote:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 01:35:33AM +1100, Gryllida wrote:
... With this in mind I would personally encourage heavy collaboration of all teams to build a framework which lets people script the MediaWiki software including media viewer screen, log-in screens, article creation screens / wizard, an interactive thingie for working with templates [1] (taking an {{unblock}} request for example without having to memorize the template syntax). [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Gryllida/Templates/Interactive
Just one massive framework for *all* of that? Actually, it already exists [7]. What we should be asking for is more use of it by core and extensions, but we're already working on that, too [8].
[7] https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/js/#!/api/mw.hook [8] https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/168
Do you find that enough for contributors to develop interactive bits of software which are easy to maintain and share code with each-other? I don't.