On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8 March 2011 00:23, church.of.emacs.ml <[email protected] > wrote: >> >> >> Lead Architect for the next generation MediaWiki platform >> >> I'd really like to hear more about that. Did I miss something or is this >> a new project? :-) > I'm quite interested in what that concept entails myself! Danese talkes > about "mediawiki.next" in the announcement blogpost, and Brion also goes > into a bit of detail about the new parser plans in his own blog: > http://leuksman.com/log/2011/03/07/hotel-mediawiki-you-can-check-out-but-you-can-never-leave/Does > the "next generation mediawiki platform" have any relationship to the > concept of the “Strategic Product Department” that was mentioned in passing > in the recent monthly engineering report (under "review system" > http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/03/wikimedia-engineering-february-report/)?
The general concept of a NG has been under discussion on the WMF / Mediawiki technical lists for some years. The general approach that Brion listed has been discussed repeatedly for some years, without having enough key support / inertia to get actually going - establish a sane and properly specified subset of the current document structure, especially around the use of templates; use automatic tools to identify in-use pages and templates that don't meet that subset, for people to go to work on fixing by hand; then start rebuilding tools to take advantage of the specified subset That the WMF both got Brion back and specifically to do this task is an excellent step forwards. It may be a moderately painful year or two to come, but five years from now we'll all appreciate it. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
