This page says that real-time collaboration is a feature that is worked upon 'right now' for visual editor. My question is, has work started on real-time collaboration (e.g. google docs style) at all? If yes when will be able to see a first experimental version? In months or years?
At least for the standalone visual-editor, not the one in wikipedia
I have actually found this video which shows this feature implemented through togetherJS.
Thanks
Hi, the page you found is from early 2017. Since then we have done a lot of the backend work to make real-time collaboration possible, and we even have some experimental code that MW users can install, see VisualEditor/Real-time collaboration. Unfortunately this feature is not in the team's priorities for the next year, so we can't make any commitments on when it might be ready, however if you watch the Real-time collaboration page, any updates will be posted there.
@ESanders (WMF) I did some reading on this task, and I saw you gave some presentations in 2017 and 2018, whose slides I read. You have some great questions inside, also outlined in this abstract. I am very curious if there are any good answers to those questions or not. Unfortunately the notetaker for the 2018 session did not provide any points from the discussion, Would it be possible, whenever you have time, to either put those questions on the task page, or to a page so that proposals to those problems are collaboratively solved? Thank you
Those panels will have been run by @Cscott though I doubt he has the old missing notes.
Thank you for replying. Is there a page that those questions are available for people to brainstorm on? I feel like having those up on a page (adjunct to the real-time collaboration page?) would allow people to find a solution, much more effectively than a 15-min hurried discussion in a conference. So please, if possible, add those questions somewhere prominent.
Moreover, another way to answering those questions, would be to just fix the bugs for the real time collaboration functionality (at least in the future) and allow third-party installations of mediawiki to use them and through trial and error find the best way (through their feedback) for this to work.
