Wikimedia Developer Summit/2017/Topic ideas

Ideas originally collected in Talk:WikiDev17:"Proposals for main topics" (talk page topic started 2016-09-08 by QGil)


 * Broad technical plan agreed for the hardest wishes among the Community Wishlist 2016 results.
 * Functioning code review process, because it affects our ability to ship better software faster, and our ability to recruit volunteer contributors to these efforts.
 * A plan for discussion pages in MediaWiki, because it is a key aspect of user collaboration and we are far from meeting all user expectations.
 * How do we make manipulating the information on our websites easier and more useful? (both for humans and computers)
 * How can we better distribute the information on our websites?
 * How can we help our software development community be more inclusive and productive (and attract many more people)?
 * How can we improve the quality of our software, and pay down the technical debt we've accumulated over the years?
 * How can we make our websites better learning environments?
 * How can we make our websites better support languages other than English (and character sets other than Latin)?
 * Easier login to Wikimedia wikis allowing users to control their on-wiki identity (e.g. login using e-mail address, case-insensitive login, "display name").
 * Merge the different feeds for the tracking changes pages (history, usercontribs, recentchanges, watchlist, logs, etc) to allow for easier maintenance and improvements. This would make it easier to add simple "re-designs" (layout tweaks, that can be toggled on/off) to all pages at once. This would make it easier for newcomer editors/readers to understand the contents of the various pages.
 * Real-time collaborative editing. Often discussed, rarely planned at a long-term level.
 * Consolidate work on MediaWiki core