James and CLs discussed the topic today and looks like he (and maybe Ed) would be available from early October on. @Rfarrand, would you be able to walk him through the format in person a bit? We've never done anything like this before, turns out.
Edit: Title was changed to reflect we went with a CREDIT talk instead.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T132023 VisualEditor support for editing inside CollaborationKit | |||
| Open | Feature | None | T138636 Allow using VisualEditor on Special:MassMessage | ||
| Open | None | T138642 VisualEditor should provide a clean integrated VE/WT editor widget that can be integrated into any context | |||
| Open | None | T130400 (Actually) Add wikitext support for citoid for automatic reference insertion | |||
| Open | None | T90864 Help VisualEditor users find the wikitext "Save" button | |||
| Open | None | T171974 Improve and consolidate our unified editing platform so that it's great on all devices | |||
| Open | None | T104479 Provide a modern wikitext editor | |||
| Resolved | Jdforrester-WMF | T141149 Provide a Beta Feature of a modern wikitext editor integrated into the visual editor | |||
| Resolved | • Elitre | T142486 Start an info page about the New Wikitext Editor | |||
| Resolved | • Whatamidoing-WMF | T142645 Announce the new 2017 wikitext editor | |||
| Resolved | Esanders | T145417 CREDIT showcase for the 2017 wikitext editor |
After a very short chat on the spot with JamesF and then some thoughts on my own...
What we are looking for here is a technical session indeed, but in fact a session that is also useful for editors to see what is coming and understand the motivations of this project from their developers. Not a pure Tech Talk as in "developers, this is what you can do with this new editor" but neither a pure demo for users.
For these reasons, and considering how busy and weird are going to be the next weeks, I think that the Wikimedia-Developer-Summit (2017) might offer a good context for this session. Imagine a live demo by @Esanders and @Jdforrester-WMF (and/or whoever they prefer) with some context and a Q&A / discussion, leading to (if there is enough interest) an unconference BoF with developers interested in e.g. porting / creating plugins for this editor, get involved, etc.
Since the deadline to submit proposals is so close, I am taking the liberty to add the Wikimedia-Developer-Summit (2017) tag here. If the dev team has better ideas not involving the Summit, then they can always pull it.
I am also deassigning this task from @Rfarrand and assigning it to... Ed? because clearly this decision is not in Rachel's hands.
@Qgil what topic were you thinking of for this talk? I'm going to add it to "wiki content beyond plaintext" for the moment, I guess...
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2017_wikitext_editor, but obviously only if the dev team is interested and drives this session.
I don't know if they want to do anything at the Summit, but the Tech Talk idea we had in mind now looks more like a short walkthrough video based on the latest conversation we had about this.
Given the silence, I think my step was premature (if well-intentioned). I am reverting it now. Sorry!
I think https://youtu.be/W_sf-kHAQkg?t=9m24s is sufficient to declare this fixed for the original purpose; we'll also do specific work in the hallway track of WikiDev 2017 and other places.
Great, thanks James.
As is the new-tradition (if you can use those words together) it is up to you to nominate a next tech talker / topic if you are willing! I will do the rest.
Thanks!
Well @dchan and @Esanders and @Catrope did all the talking. ;-) But to be very parochial it might be nice for @Tchanders to give a tech talk about the visual diffs system. Thalia, what do you think?