Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Ideas list

This is purely brainstorming on ideas that MediaWiki could tackle in the near term. No promises. Please add to this list as you feel appropriate.


 * Admin tools
 * Deploy AbuseFilter global rules
 * Other things on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Admin_tools_development
 * git-deploy
 * Caching improvements:
 * Redirect to canonical encoding (27935)
 * When a commons image is updated, update the pages that use it (22390)
 * Include version in thumbnail URL (17577)
 * Queue refreshLinks jobs on template deletion (5382)
 * Separate Cache-Control header for proxy and client (48835)
 * File/image related:
 * VipsScaler extension (Package in Ubuntu http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libvips-tools )
 * Score extension
 * JobQueue
 * Move to redis to reduce master load? (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/39174/)
 * Implement immediate priority jobs
 * Blame map extension (we should do enough to avoid blocking Luca's work)
 * Figure out Parsoid strategy
 * SecurePoll cleanup
 * Central code repo
 * LogStash
 * User preferences
 * HHVM
 * OpenID connect
 * File upload pipeline (in conjunction with Multimedia team)