User:Snowolf/Wikimedia Conference 2017 OST 9

20170401 - What should our platform look like in 2030?

Participants

• Snowolf
• Dungodung
• Bawolff
• Raymond
• Tpt
• Ruslik0
• Florianschmidtwelzow
• whym

We had a productive discussion about what priorities we can see now for what the future should hold for MediaWiki, which permits all of our projects to exist.

Media support

• "Putting the media back in MediaWiki" - Discussed the need for first class support for multimedia content on our platform

Collaboration Tools

• Real-time collaboration tools
• Visual Editor
  • Visual Editor should be fully supported in all languages and alphabets
  • Wikitext markup knowledge should no longer be required knowledge, but still an option for users
• Better conflict resolution
  • Subparagraph conflict resolution
  • Conflict markers rather than before and after

Translation

• Translation interface
  • It was widely agreed that the translation interface needs to be significantly reworked or replaced
  • Comments included treating the current interface as throwaway prototyping, finding a way of translating content without use of tags and generally improving the usability of the translation interface (mainly the original text portion)

Mobile

• We should not aim for mobile first, but we should have good, solid mobile support
• We should have a truly responsive skin

Security

• Find a solution for the security problems caused by site-wide user edited Javascript
  • Possible solutions
    • Moving a lot to extensions
    • Lua modules or some other subset that can be better secured
• Implementing Content Security Policy

Extensions, Gadgets

• Cross-wiki gadgets
• Ensuring extensions break less often (for instance moving a lot of extensions to a more restricted subset)

Spam

• As one of the key day to day problems of the projects, we could really use a dedicated engineer working on Spam tools

Non-Wikimedia MediaWiki

• Finally a good installation esperience for non-wikimedia wikis

Aging UI

• Participants voiced the need for a modern UI, but also noted that the look of interface conveys the seriousness of the projects and its encyclopedic nature