Wikimedia Developer Summit/2016/T112987

T112987 - This is the session pad for the Separating infoboxes and navboxes from article content session, slated to begin at 3:40pm on Monday, January 4, 2016.

Purpose

We now have a number of different proposals for revamping navboxes and infoboxes. The goal of this session is to separate out infoboxes and navboxes from article content, and to provide fluent editors for them. This would allow mobile (for example) to more easily tweak the presentation of infoboxes, without having to parse the article content, recognize them, and pull them out. A desirable side-effect is to make it more routine to source data and label texts for infoboxes/navboxes from wikidata, so that they can be shared among wikis in different languages. An extensible design would allow a local wiki to inherit most of an infobox, but still override, delete, or add fields, to empower local editors and account for political sensitivities.

Agenda

20 minutes - introductory presentation
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pFUIoC0rQioUBYEs5DQPVJvi9WdCXFEUebUdlo1v0RE/edit?usp=sharing
- (User:hoo will also present his work briefly)
60 minutes - open discussion
- Starting with 10 minutes for Q&A about the various existing implementations.

Minutes

Etherpad

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiDev16-T112987

Goals

Leave with a unified plan for the future of infoboxes and navboxes, including buy-in from wikidata, the mediawiki-core team (for storage separate from article content), mobile (to replace their current display hacks), editing (to create the necessary tools), and analytics (to ensure that infoboxes remain easy to edit, but not significantly easier to vandalize).

Chronology

This section is where an attempt is made to capture the gist of who said what, in what order. A transcript isn't necessary, but it's useful to capture the important points made by speakers as they happen.

Session guidelines

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Specific tasks:

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Facilitator

Gatekeeper

Scribe

Timekeeper

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Strawman: exploring one specific solution

Field narrowing: narrowing down choices of solution

Consensus: coming to agreement on one solution

Education: teaching people about an agreed solution

Identify agenda items and guide discussion to stay on topic

Redirect participants who begin venting or discussing things that can be done online

Scribe(s): Document the session
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Link to Phabricator task describing session

Goal as described by facilitator

Topics of discussion as laid out by facilitator

Action items and who is responsible for them

Create new Phabricator tasks as needed

At end of session, copy meeting notes into Phabricator as appropriate

Gatekeeper: Actively manage participation
Interrupt people if they are dominating the discussion

Help people who are having difficulty being heard

If the gatekeeper is talking too much, someone else should interrupt them

Timekeeper: Keep track of time left and point out time passing to facilitator
If possible, estimate time for each topic written by scribes

Let people know when a topic has gone over its time

Give a warning when 5-10 minutes are left