>Meta discussions over community, Appreciation threads, GSoC wrapups,
>Deployment threads, and orthogonal questions.
>Lately wikitech-l seems to be almost void of one of the most important
>categories of discussion I like to see here.
>
>Discussions on adding new features to MediaWiki!
>
>So, just like Sumana's "Appreciation thread" how about a little thread
>dedicated to listing out things we'd like to see in MediaWiki or
perhaps
>would like to write ourselves.
>Not really big things like VisualEditor, Wikidata, and Lua who have
teams
>of people within WMF working on them. But rather those other important
>things a lot of us may want but always end up pushed to the side and
>forgotten.
>
>For me...
>
> ...
>
>- OAuth: Well not actually OAuth. After getting a full understanding of
>this topic implementation of actual OAuth (1&2) looks like a dark
>dead-end. Rather than OAuth I'd like to write a new auth standard that
>learns from all the good things and the mistakes made in both versions
of
>OAuth and takes note of all the things we really need. And then
implement
>it into MediaWiki and write a series of server and client
libraries/sdks
>so it's also easier to pick up than either OAuth.
Obligitory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/927/
>
> ...
>
>Now some old and forgotten code topics:
>
> ...
>
>- Password reset tokens: It's unbelievable but we are STILL using
>temporary passwords instead of reset tokens. Naturally this is less
usable
>and also lowers the security of our password reset system.
I had no idea we were doing that. That /is/ really bad!
>- An abstract revision system. The way we shove configuration into
i18n,
>i18n into articles, scripts and stylesheets into articles, and
extensions
>go and do the same. All just to get proper revisioning of things. Is
>horrible. Not to mention the extensions that don't and rely on our
logging
>system which makes it harder to revert things. With all this together
I'd
>like to see an abstract system that lets extensions have their own
>revision system outside of page content for whatever they need to do.
This. I would pay you for this one. Not a living by any means, but I
would be
willing to put $20-$30 towards whoever implements that as a gift and a
"Thank
you". All my extensions at my job have to keep track of revisions and
it
is a
pain to reimplement it every time. I still haven't gotten my history
UIs
anywhere close to as nice as the one used by Mediawiki.
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That all said, this a fantastic topic idea. I can't wait to see where
this
goes.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
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