20170401 - What should our platform look like in 2030?

Participants

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