Mediawiki Developer Summit 2015

The MediaWiki Developer Summit is an invitation-only event with an emphasis on the evolution of the MediaWiki architecture and the Wikimedia Engineering goals for 2015.

It took place on Monday, January 26 and Tuesday, January 27, 2015 in the Mission Bay Center, San Francisco, California.

Overall it was very interesting and a lot of good discussion happened. Again I am writing this post months after the event so sorry for the lack of content.

Parts of the schedule that I attended

• Monday
  • Preparing for a multi-device world
  • MediaWiki Stakeholders’ Group Meet-Up
  • State of CI, what we did in 2014
  • Future of CI, what we want to do in 2015
  • Modern, consistent user experience
  • MediaWiki Farmers user group meetup
  • Front-end Standardization
• Tuesday
  • Distribution of MediaWiki and extensions
  • Next steps along the Service Oriented Architecture path
  • SOA and Operations
  • Improving extension management
  • How MediaWiki slows us down
  • Wikidata Query Service
  • Update bots to handle Flow boards