Reminder: This is today! When: *Tuesday, June 23rd, 13:00 - 14:30 PT* [3] Where: * *https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/contentplatform <https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/contentplatform>* * *room 37* in the office On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Gabriel Wicke &lt;gwicke(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: > Hi all, > > a few of us have recently collected and roughly prioritized some open > architectural questions [1]. The area that stood out as needing most urgent > attention is adapting our content platform to long-term changes in the way > users interact with our site [2]. People are using a wider range of > devices, from feature phones to multi-core desktops. Many users are looking > for short factoids and definitions, while others prefer to immerse > themselves in detailed articles with rich multimedia content. > > MediaWiki is currently not very optimized to support such a diverse > set of use cases. To address this, we see a need to improve our platform in > the following areas: > > > - Storage: To better separate data from presentation, we need the > ability to store multiple bits of content and metadata associated with each > revision. This storage needs to integrate well with edits, history views, > and other features, and should be exposed via a high-performance API. > - Change propagation: Edits to small bits of data need to be > reliably and efficiently propagated to all content depending on it. The > machinery needed to track dependencies should be easy to use. > - Content composition and caching: Separate data gives us the > freedom to render infoboxes, graphs or multimedia elements dynamically, > depending on use case and client. For performance and flexibility, it would > be desirable to assemble at least some of these renders as late as > possible, at the edge or on the client. > > > We don't expect to tackle all of this at once, but are starting to > look into several areas. If you are interested in helping, then we would > like to invite you to join us for a kick-off meeting: > > *When: Tuesday, June 23rd, 13:00 - 14:30 PT [3]* > *Where: *A *hangout* link will be posted here before the meeting; > room 37 in the office. > > If you can't attend, then please have a look at our current notes and > let us know what you think [2]. > > Gabriel Wicke, Daniel Kinzler, Brion Vibber, Tim Starling, Roan > Kattouw, Ori Livneh > > > [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96903 > [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99088 > [3]: > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=MediaWiki+content+… > -- Gabriel Wicke Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Engineering mailing list Engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering

> -- Gabriel Wicke Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Engineering mailing list Engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering