Wikimedia Developer Summit/2016/T112991

This is the session pad for the User Interface working area (T119162), main topic Semantic image styles / beautiful layout (T112991) slated to begin at 2:00 PM on Tuesday, January 5 in R2.

Purpose
Mediawiki is lacking tools to generate truly beautiful layouts across a range of devices. As a result, our articles look so-so on the web (but we are continually challenged to do better) and often broken on mobile and print (although we make heroic efforts to workaround our limitations).

This topic at the developer summit would include features which attempt to provide better tools for describing the way images are laid out in our articles, but hopefully we could expand the scope to include design input: what would a truly beautiful presentation on web/mobile/print/etc look like? What are the features we're missing to enable that?

Summit Plan

 * Collect a portfolio of media usage, to inform the scope of the work.
 * Create an aspirational "design for mediawiki", which can inform specific implementation work to enable it.
 * Identify specific focus tasks for the coming year, for example support for cropping, or for bounding boxes, or for semantic style tagging.

Agenda

 * 20 minutes: session introduction (may, cscott)
 * 60 minutes: discussion

Etherpad
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiDev16-T112991

Goals
''Please prepopulate this section with the goals of the meeting, and anticipate that collaborative editing around fulfillment of goals. This is a great place to capture action items from the conversation.''

Chronology
''This section is where an attempt is made to capture the gist of who said what, in what order. A transcript isn't necessary, but it's useful to capture the important points made by speakers as they happen.''