Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling shared tabular data pages

2016-06-13 Thread Rob Lanphier
Let's revive this thread for this week's ArchCom RFC meeting. I'll doll up a more formal announcement as I finish cleaning up some of our notes documents, but for now, the short version: URL: Time: 2016-06-15, Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST) Locat

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling shared tabular data pages

2016-06-06 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Rob, thanks for your offer to help! Always welcome :) By discussion and positive feedback I meant Facebook and Commons comments, and a very old and elaborate phab ticket discussion: * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120452 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Tabu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling shared tabular data pages

2016-06-06 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Daniel, thanks, inline: The structure looks sane and future-proof to me, but since it's > all-in-one-blob, > it'll be hard to scale it to more than a few ten thousand lines or so. I > like > this model, but if you want to go beyond that (DO we want to go beyond > that?!) > you will need a differen

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling shared tabular data pages

2016-06-06 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 06.06.2016 um 15:40 schrieb Yuri Astrakhan: > Do you have any thoughts about the proposed data structure? The structure looks sane and future-proof to me, but since it's all-in-one-blob, it'll be hard to scale it to more than a few ten thousand lines or so. I like this model, but if you want to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling shared tabular data pages

2016-06-06 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 6:40 AM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Daniel, I agree about the data/api versioning. I was mostly talking about > features and capabilities. For example, we could spend the next year > developing a visual table editor, implement support for unlimited table > sizes, provide impor

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling shared tabular data pages

2016-06-06 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Daniel, I agree about the data/api versioning. I was mostly talking about features and capabilities. For example, we could spend the next year developing a visual table editor, implement support for unlimited table sizes, provide import/export from other table formats, introduce elaborate schema va

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling shared tabular data pages

2016-06-06 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 04.06.2016 um 18:47 schrieb Yuri Astrakhan: > In line with the "release early, release often", we will not have any > elaborate data editing interface beyond the raw JSON code editor for the > first release. A word of caution about this strategy: this is great for user facing things, but it re

[Wikitech-l] Enabling shared tabular data pages

2016-06-04 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
We have had some good feedback for the new shared tabular data feature, and we are getting ready to deploy it in production. It would be amazing if you can give it a final look-over to see if there are any blockers left. The first stage will be to enable Data:*.tab pages on Commons, and allow al