User:Brion VIBBER/roadmap notes

Short-medium term
Stuff we could probably get done this year that would be really nice.


 * Native support for HTTP/HTTPS dual-access sites
 * w/ option to direct all or some logins to HTTPS
 * Native support for multi-wiki sites
 * Native support for DB sessions and images (filesystem-permission-free install)
 * Kill manual config file editing:
 * New GUI-friendly config system
 * New GUI-friendly extension setup
 * Kill manual message page editing
 * GUI-friendly sidebar editor
 * GUI-friendly special chars editor
 * GUI-friendly edit toolbar editor
 * Drop XHTML 1 for HTML 5
 * Machine and GUI-friendly media metadata
 * Basic info store/retrieve
 * Subset of Semantic MediaWiki capabilities in mainline? (Need clean interface and scalable backend. Complex queries may be dangerous!)
 * Compare with RDF ext
 * Expose metadata via RDFa for spidering (check what Yahoo and Google support now, as well as the education-specialized search engines.)
 * Native geolocation store
 * API query interface for it
 * Special:Search near-location support (given coordinates or browser geolocation)
 * More integrated AJAX search helpers (username, category, title typeahead search)

Long-term stuff
Scarier!
 * Native support for multi-location cluster federation
 * New flexible templating language
 * Drop raw human-edited markup?