Wikimedia Technical Conference/2018/Session notes


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This page lists the Wikified copies of the notes that were taken and organized during the conference. See project/board/3322/query/all/ for direct links to all the phab tasks:


 * Monday:
 * Keynote on Platform Principles
 * Product Vision WMF/WMDE
 * Process and Action
 * Improving the translation process
 * Building MediaWiki to Support Collaboration
 * Making curation and contribution mechanisms equitable and consistent
 * Fireside chat with Victoria Coleman, Toby Negrin, Erik Moeller, Franziska Heine


 * Tuesday:
 * How do we work together
 * Applying the MediaWiki Platform Architecture Principles
 * Integrating data into our products
 * Integrating machine learning into our products
 * Choosing installation methods and environments for 3rd party users


 * Wednesday:
 * Mapping our data and content pipeline
 * Identifying and extracting data trapped in our content
 * Determining use cases and requirements for the APIs that we build
 * Identifying the requirements and goals for the parser
 * Choosing the technologies to build our APIs
 * Identifying the requirements and goals for dependency tracking and events
 * Identifying our storage and search use cases
 * Improving frontend testing and logging
 * Building our storage systems for flexibility and scale
 * Standardizing frontend development tooling


 * Thursday:
 * Architecting Core: layers/components/libraries
 * Architecting Core: concepts
 * Architecting Core: stand-alone services
 * Architecting Core: extension interfaces
 * Working together to develop our roadmap
 * Report Outs and Closing