In T115650#3030244, @bd808 wrote:

Any talk of the specific technical solutions needed is probably premature. I apologize for leading the discussion in that direction myself as few posts above. In my experience these discussion quickly devolve into experienced insiders debating the relative merits of existing solutions instead of discussing who the audience is and what their needs are. See past threads for examples:

• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2015-March/thread.html#3462
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-October/thread.html#83560

The real place to start if we want a different outcome is with someone taking on the role of Product Owner and doing the initial work of describing the general problems that should be addressed and how solving those problems will result in a net positive change for the Wikimedia movement. We need to know what problem we are trying to solve and who we are trying to solve it for before deciding on the technical details of how to actually produce the desired result.