User:Brooke Vibber/roadmap notes

Short-medium term

Stuff we could probably get done this year that would be really nice.

Native support for HTTP/HTTPS dual-access sites
- w/ option to direct all or some logins to HTTPS
Native support for multi-wiki sites
Native support for DB sessions and images (filesystem-permission-free install)
Kill manual config file editing:
- New GUI-friendly config system
- New GUI-friendly extension setup
Kill manual message page editing
- GUI-friendly sidebar editor
- GUI-friendly special chars editor
- GUI-friendly edit toolbar editor
Drop XHTML 1 for HTML 5
Machine and GUI-friendly media metadata
Basic info store/retrieve
- Subset of Semantic MediaWiki capabilities in mainline? (Need clean interface and scalable backend. Complex queries may be dangerous!)
  - Compare with RDF ext
- Expose metadata via RDFa for spidering (check what Yahoo and Google support now, as well as the education-specialized search engines.)
- Native geolocation store
  - API query interface for it
  - Special:Search near-location support (given coordinates or browser geolocation)
More integrated AJAX search helpers (username, category, title typeahead search)

Scarier!