Hi all! Getting MCR support into MediaWiki is going to be one of the big challenges of the next half year or so, and I'm really happy that quite a few people seem to be interested in seeing it done. If you are interested in helping with the effort, with discussion, review, coding, or organizing, please let me know.
Anyway, I have now put up a design draft for Multi-Content-Revision support here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions>. The top level page explains the concept and rationale, and it links to several subpages discussing different parts of the overall design. Some of these parts are already fairly mature, while others are still just collections of notes. This is the first time I have made a writeup of how all the parts fit together, and I'd be really grateful for feedback. I'm particularly interested in what you think of the proposed database schema described at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions/Content_Meta-Data>. Is it appropriate? feasible? scalable? The content meta-data storage design is the heart of MCR. While it doesn't necessarily have to be done first, we need commitment on this before we do any of the other parts. I have however tried to isolate the different components to a large degree, so they can be implemented independently of each other, as described at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions#Implementation_Roadmap> Another part besides the content meta-data that is already quite mature and ready for implementation is the BlobStore facility <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions/Blob_Storage>. But I'm also interested in your thoughts on the design of the higher level interfaces described in <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions/Revision_Retrieval> and <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions/Page_Update_Controller>. I have linked to some code experiments throughout the design document. Note that these experiments often do not completely line up with the draft document. In some cases, the experiment has progressed since the draft, in others, the draft contains lessons learned from the experiment that never made it into code. The canonical proposal is always the one on the wiki. Please comment on the talk pages. Thanks! -- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
