Wikimedia Conference 2010/Developers' Workshop/Topic brainstorms

Below are on-paper suggested topics. For notes, please look at the #Notes section.

improve Usability and Accessability
Usability of Commons, Upload form
Block Level In-Place Editing (Trevor)
MediaWiki i18n - leave it be or improve it?
Rich text editing (wikEd) / WYSIWYG (several times)
Commons Metadata & Search
Online Image Editing for Commons
File (picture) upload usability (LA2)
Video Collaboration - Division of labour among users with diffent skills (LA2)
Automatically render the <references />-block in the preview, if you edit a section of an article that has a <ref ... >-tag in it.

Dump HTML - for different filesystems with solution for Non-ASCII filenames
Wikipedia Offline (using WMF wikis without internet connectivity like "WikiReader" or "Wikipock" )
offline Wikipedia (data extraction and openZIM project "dump" file format): finishing ZIM integration for regular ZIM file export: roadmap ; MediaWiki extension for manual ZIM file export
Meta-Data Separation
Data-sets - what data can WMF make available for data mining

Improved Process for Patch/Commit review & Deploymjent (Andrew)
Triage and Assignment (Andrew)
Easy output which bug is online/ fixed for WP, not just resolved/fixed in Bugzilla/MW/SVN
Automated Testing (Selenium, Unit, TDD)
Selenium (Ryan Lane)
Automated Tests (Selenium, etc.)

structured Data / Meta-Data
Data Reuse - API for preparsed output (XML) - Enable Semantic MW for authors (?), even if not queries
Metadata Export/Exchange
importances of using templates instead of tables for structured data (esp. in wikipedia)
Semantic Mediawiki
Benefits of a semantic Wikipedia
Semantic Web
Public Domain
Bibliographic Data
Integrating external Data-sources
automate collection and archival of references
Dynamic mashups with external sources
Automatic inclusion of external data like statistics
External archiving (pages cache of web)
Geo-tagging & maps (last year's topic) (LA2)
OpenStreetMap integration into Wikipedia
Mapping on Mediawiki (OSM Integration)
Usage of WP-coordinates, bring them to OSM (Kolossos)
OSM-Maps (Kolossos)

API Query Pages (Roan) - 1b 14864
API
MediaWiki API Access / Extend
E-mail issues: privacy of mail addresses (wiki mailer); E-mail notification enabling problems, bugs
RC Feed via XMPP
Admin control panels -> config and plugins
Central Notice System
recent changes stream for bots / analysers
Mediawiki Visual/Dynamic Configuratio
OpenID/OAuth for wikimedia sites (Ryan Lane)
changes in 1.16, lesser globals? new way to store settings?

Wikimedia projects on Mobile - how to enable participation for contributions (tomasz)
Social User to User Projects
Synergies between Wikipedia and ohter mediawiki users
User "Rating" of pages ****
Reader to editor conversion | editor onboarding
Image Rating (with stars or so ...)
Systems for Quality, assurance and verification

Better Systems for Logging of Administrator Actions (New Logging Table) (Andrew)
BigDelete/Archive Table Overhaul (Roan/Chad)
"Collation" issues (sorting orders by diffent locales) - categories, page names
Deletion with MediaWiki (Classic vs. RevDel)
Making default search not suck