https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/ Drop_actions_in_favour_of_page_views_and_special_pages This is a proposal to move away from action= in favor of Special pages. Perhaps obsolete, since action handling was rewritten since?

Hi all! The Architecture Committee, and especially Tim, has been going through the RFC backlog over the last moths. Many where discussed at the weekly RFC chat on Wednesdays, and most of these were resolved. But there are some rather old RFCs left, for which it's a bit unclear whether anyone is still interested in discussing them. So, if you like, go through the list below and tell us whether you would like to discuss an RFC, or think it should be abandoned, or amended, or rewritten, or whatever. * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Refactor_on_File-FileRe… This is a proposal to refactor media handling code. In particular, it proposes to split backend tasks performed by MediaHandler from UI related tasks. * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Drop_actions_in_favour_… This is a proposal to move away from action= in favor of Special pages. Perhaps obsolete, since action handling was rewritten since? * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Itemise_protection This argues that we should support multiple protections to apply to a page at once, e.g. indefinite semi-protection and at the same time a short-term full protection. I'd personally like to discuss this as part of a larger refactoring that would implement protection based on our permission system. Basically, applying protection would mean overriding which group has which permissions on a given page. * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Regex-based_blacklist A proposal to overhaul SpamBlacklist (from 2008). I'd personally be more interested in integrating this with (a rewrite of) AbuseFilter. We could have multiple lists, accessible from AbuseFilter rules. There are also some RFCs that relate to organizational issues rather than MediaWiki features and architecture as such: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Release_notes_automation Automatically compose RELEASE-NOTES based on special lines in the git commit message. I like the idea! * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Distribution_and_deploy… This looks like a grand design, with very little information about what exactly it is supposed to do, and how. It's from 2010 and marked "incomplete". Anyone interested? * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki_Foundation This is about creating a governance group for MediaWiki, separate from Wikimedia. The release management for MediaWiki has since been moved to Mark Hershberger and Markus Glaser, but I don't know much about their arrangement with WMF. Is there still demand for a MediaWiki Foundation? Some good ideas here, and some old cruft. I think the most important factor in deciding what to discuss is to see for which RFCs there are people interested in working on them. So, please give us some feedback, ideally until Monday, so we can plan the RFC chat for Wednesday . Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l