The tasks of the sessions merged should be merged to this task, right? This would avoid confusion with the Unconference plans (see T149282#2887647).

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Ti4be2qa4i6pq3o8 has some discussion relevant to this topic

Let us talk once you have had a chance to catch up, but I don't think we should try to do all 4 things in this session. The spec discussion doesn't need too much time. I would like to focus my attention on T149282: Improved editability, tooling, reasoning, and performance by adopting DOM-based semantics for wikitext and T149658: A new semantics for templates fits right into that. So, I think we should think of this along 2 axes. What kind of changes to the underlying processing model are useful and what kind of changes to the syntax of wikitext could be considered. There are some overlaps there, but I think it would be beneficial to focus on those two focus areas: processing model and syntax. We can have followup breakout (unconference) sessions for in-depth discussions, if necessary.

To the owner of this session: Here is the link to the session guidelines page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Session_Guidelines. We encourage you to recruit Note-taker(s) 2(min) and 3(max), Remote Moderator, and Advocate (optional) on the spot before the beginning of your session. Instructions about each role player's task are outlined in the guidelines. The physical version of the role cards will be made available in all the session rooms. Good luck prepping, see you at the summit! :)

Slides (live link to google docs; may be "work in progress" before monday): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MPGDklHg_Lmz2HH46IIYBQmaaNt41V4h1CoXL-ruDtc/edit?usp=sharing

Hey, this is "wikitext 2.0", so we have a "2.0" version of the slides, too! https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mP2I6pY3uvIW00S-4xaR2Y5MXnqwgRaAXyJ_08rt5bM/edit?usp=sharing

Note-taker(s) of this session: Follow the instructions here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Session_Guidelines#NOTE-TAKER.28S.29 After the session, DO NOT FORGET to copy the relevant notes and summary into a new wiki page following the template here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Your_Session and also link this from the All Session Notes page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/All_Session_Notes. The EtherPad links are also now linked from the Schedule page (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Schedule) for you!

Notes from this session: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/devsummit17-wikitext2.0

Notes moved on-wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Wikitext_2.0

Slides uploaded to commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikitext_2.0.wikimedia.devsummit.2017.pdf

@cscott are there any actionable items from this session? If not should I close this task as resolved?