Talk:Contributors/Roadmap

Legoktm's ideas

Random stuff I'd also like to see worked on...:

• Killing the monster that is EditPage.php (fixing it would be fine too I guess...)
• Live preview by default
• Sane edit notice system (aka not enwp's silly template titleblacklist system)
• Killing Extension:WikiEditor and putting it in core and extension-ify the legacy toolbar

Legoktm (talk) 22:07, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Hey!

• Killing the monster that is EditPage.php (fixing it would be fine too I guess...)

  Sounds like a good idea. Do you have particular thoughts other than "better" – is there an obvious way forward? Should we do an RfC? (Oy.)

• Live preview by default

  Hmm, sounds exceptionally API-expensive…

• Sane edit notice system (aka not enwp's silly template titleblacklist system)

  Yeah; adding a nicely-editable proper edit notice system is certainly something that I'd like to see.

• Killing Extension:WikiEditor and putting it in core and extension-ify the legacy toolbar

  Eh. I'd rather kill the legacy toolbar and make the concept of "the editor" a configurable thing, with core support for 1…n editors (with a primary).

Thoughts? Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 16:26, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

• At first pass, separating the UI and backend logic would be a good start.
• It's just shifting the parse load from index.php to api.php AFAIS it.
• What's the use case of having multiple configurable editors? WikiEditor is already extendable, and most plugins (CodeEditor, reftoolbar) today just extend it.

Legoktm (talk) 23:34, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

@Legoktm: The use case is cleaner system-provided integration for VisualEditor, FCYEditor, etc… Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 19:47, 22 July 2014 (UTC)