Mark H. asks: > what should we actually focus on? My team runs a successful internal wiki at Vistaprint/Cimpress, with several thousand users, 200,000 pages, and ~80 custom extensions.
Some suggested areas of focus: 1. VisualEditor, as others have said. Making it as easy to use & maintain as possible. Also make it easy to port WikiEditor extensions to work with VisualEditor. 2. Categories. All they give you today is a list of alphabetical links (on a category page), 200 at a time. They could be & do so much more. How about: (a) Renaming a category: make it a simple operation for the user. Pywikibot is a poor substitute (and frequently has destructive bugs regarding category renames, like this recurring one: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T57315) (b) Search within a category. (Including transcluded category tags, which Lucene cannot handle with its "incategory" keyword.) (c) Search within category and all its subcategories, recursively. 3. Namespaces. Right now they are irrevocably tied to article titles, so you're forced to begin your title with "Namespace:...". That's like forcing all Linux users to use absolute pathnames whenever they create a file. :-) Provide a way to "cd" into a namespace and stay there... making it your default namespace when creating articles. Or something equivalent. Let articles exist "in" a namespace without forcing authors to title their articles in a particular way. Here's why. In a company, different departments want to "own" different parts of a wiki: setting a different look & feel, limiting edit privileges to a group, etc. The only mechanism provided by Mediawiki for this is the namespace. But then every user needs to remember to title their articles specially. Hope this helps, DanB ________________________________ My email address has changed to [email protected]. Please update your address book. Cimpress is the new name for Vistaprint NV, the world’s leader in mass customization. Read more about Cimpress at www.cimpress.com. ________________________________ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
