Event:Understanding cross-wiki code collaboration across South Asian languages
In collaboration with the Content Transform team at WMF, the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group is hosting a brainstorming session on cross-wiki code collaboration across South Asian languages.
Background
[edit]One of the central features of wikis is collaborative content creation. In the context of the Wikimedia movement, the collaboration needs are very specific to the evolution of the projects and the challenges that arise at the scales that some of the larger projects operate in.
While wikis operate independently for the most part, there have always been cross-wiki collaboration needs. Meta-Wiki enables strategizing, planning, documentation and coordination across wikis. Commons and Wikidata let wikis share media and structured data across all wikis. But, there is no such ability for code - gadgets (JS), templates (wikitext), modules (Lua), styles (CSS) - even while wiki-based code is core to the authoring, rendering, curating, and administrative needs of every single Wikimedia wiki.
Code collaboration (cross-wiki or on-wiki) is a legitimate need and should be accommodated. This is less a single problem and more a problem space that includes several overlapping problems around code (templates & modules primarily) and solving problems in this space requires shared understanding around priorities that are most impactful.
You can read more about the initiate at MediaWiki Product Insights: Cross-Wiki Code Collaboration
Description
[edit]In this session the community will pair with a Product Manager from the MediaWiki Engineering Group and brainstorm and think through how we can improve cross-wiki code collaboration, supporting multiple use cases.
Agenda
[edit]- 10 min: Getting started
- 15 min: Introduction to cross-wiki code collab by User:MSantos (WMF)
- 15 min: Initial Q&A
- 45 min: Understanding cross-wiki code reuse areas across South Asian languages.
- 5 min: Closing and next steps.