MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/TechConf Input/Challenges

Gerrit
The Gerrit system for submitting patches is clunky, hard to work with, and generally unfavored in my office place. I was really hoping that with the moving to Phabricator another repository management system would have been implemented.

Alexia E. Smith (talk) 22:36, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Endorsements

 * Alexia E. Smith (talk) 22:36, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Comments

 * I would also prefer a move to GitHub --Krabina (talk) 11:51, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Access restrictions and wiki synchronization
I know that MediaWiki is not designed to be a full-fledged content management system with fine-graind per-page or partial page access restrictions and probably never will be. But anyway, there two extensions that came quite far:
 * Extension:Lockdown
 * Extension:PermissionACL

So a first wish is one of them / or both to be maintained better or another solution to this.

In corporate settings, there are also alternatives to access restrictions in one wiki, i.e. splitting content in two or more wikis. Therefore a better multi-wiki-management and content syndication between wikis could be a way to go. Here are some links to follow up on that:
 * Extension:SplitPrivateWiki
 * https://github.com/nischayn22/wikiImporter
 * extension:Sync
 * Extension:Push

Also, a very simple use case cannot easily be implemented: setting up 2 wikis with a shared user accounts (but different content). So single-sign-on between two or more mediawiki instances is important in this regard as well (without having to use several extension).

Krabina (talk) 12:01, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Endorsements

 * Krabina (talk) 12:01, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * AdSvS (talk) 12:58, 6 August 2018 (UTC)