Roadmap/Archive
Since version 1.6, releases are quarterly snapshots of the development trunk, which is kept continuously in a runnable state.
We're trying to plot out upcoming important, big, or exciting things with respect to priority and when we hope to have them done...
More specific roadmap items are currently being developed. This is not complete, and subject to change.
Please don't add items to this list if you're not actually actively working on MediaWiki. This is not a wishlist. (Bug reports and feature requests should be filed on BugZilla as usual.)
1.17
|- |Rewrite installer, support web-based upgrades |The current installer is buggy, confusing for newbies, and doesn't support the upgrade process well (only sure-fire upgrade is command-line based). Currently in a semi-working state in the new-installer branch. Plan to finalize, cleanup and merge to trunk in 1.17. |medium |Tim (started work), Chad |untargeted |Work in progress, see notes
Untargeted items
Items not yet given a target date.
|- |Web configuration interface that supports Wikimedia layout | |medium |Werdna |untargeted |work in progress
|- |Unicode normalization considerations |nice to get in some point; will help with arabic and hebrew issues. not a huge change |low | |untargeted |
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|Abstracted database schema description, schema updaters
|To make the multiple schema variants for MySQL 4.0 and 5/utf8 more maintainable
|low to medium
|Tim?
|untargeted
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|Parallelizable, restartable dump runner
|notes
Clean up the currently fragile externaldump process, make our internal backups more reliable
|medium to high
|TAKE ME PLEASE
|untargeted
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|Clean up OAI exporter and importer, add time-delay features
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|high
|Brion
|untargeted
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|Deletion queue system
|notes
Human-helpful process improvements
|medium
|Andrew, maybe.
|untargeted
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|Integrated heuristic checks, improved patrolling
|human-helpful process improvements
|medium
|Andrew
|untargeted
|work in progress; see Extension:AbuseFilter
|-
|UDP based logging
|Add RFC 3164 (BSD syslog protocol) support. See Brion's post : Wikipedia downtime 2x today
|low
|Hashar
|untargeted
|work in progress
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|On-wiki namespace manager (Special:Namespaces)
|original wikidata branch specs and see notes
|medium
|Skizzerz
|untargeted
|work in progress
General concerns
- Work to improve caching hit rates, on MW side and squid sides
- Document functions. Many have no comments and the argument forms are unintuitive