Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2018-06-20


 * Call for nominations of new TechCom members was closed on June 18 with 15 nominations received. We will be reviewing the candidates over the coming weeks.
 * New RFC: “Implement a standardized way to track the usage of parser functions and tags”  
 * Moving towards implementation: multi-file packages for ResourceLoader .
 * Moving towards implementation: “Tracking dependencies for multiple Content objects per page (MCR)” 
 * Implementation in progress: “Allow users to be blocked from editing a specific article or all articles inside a namespace” 
 * Interested to not record IPs for anon edit, see 
 * Pending alternative proposal to be written: “Use ar_page_id to determine the parent IDs for undeleted revisions”  
 * Public RFC discussion on Wednesday: “Factoring page update logic out of WikiPage”. This is about the overall architecture of the code we use to process page updates. It’s a major part of a comprehensive refactoring of the MediaWiki storage layer.  