Here are three topic suggestions, cc'ed here in case folks aren't following the Flow, with an illustrative (but not exhaustive) list of sessions that could fit under each:
*1. *(A unified vision for) *Collaboration* - Real-time collaboration (not just editing, but chatting, curation, patrolling) - WikiProject enhancements: User groups, finding people to work with, making these first class DB concepts - Civility/diversity/inclusiveness, mechanisms to handle/prevent harassment, vandalism, trolling while working together - Real-time reading -- watching edits occur in real time - Integration with WikiEdu - Broadening notion of "an edit" in DB -- multiple contributors, possibly multiple levels of granularity - Tip-toeing toward "draft"/"merge" models of editing - Better diff tools: refreshed non-wikitext UX, timelines, authorship maps, etc. *2. *Improving* Modular Wikitext Maintenance* - Infoboxes from wikidata, categories from wikidata, wikidata in commons, oh my! - Visual editing of templates, alternative template mechanisms, etc - Wikitext 2.0 -- how to shave off the rough edges but still provide a text-based power-user editing interface - Global pages, Global templates, etc - Improving composition of text and media content on the page - Moving to a Glossary model for LanguageConverter rules - Splitting metadata (categories, page flags, etc) from content in the DB *3. *(Doubling down on)* Machine Translation* - Annotation service to record fine-grained translation correspondences between wikis over time (not just at the time of first translation) - Suggestion service to suggest new edits to wiki A when translated text wiki B is modified (or vice-versa) - Refactoring existing language converter pairs as (sometimes trivial) translation engines, eg cyrillic-to-latin - Building a translation engine in house, training it with translated wiki pages, improving it over time, etc - Tightly integrating the translation UX for everyone. More: one community wearing babel fishes / Less: scattered villagers after the Tower of Babel fell. - Improving harassment/vandalism/civility/inclusiveness/diversity mechanisms to handle these larger cross-cultural communities. - i18n of global pages, global templates, etc. May need mechanisms to allow translation of comments, for example. --scott -- (http://cscott.net) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
