UBC Wiki:Roadmap/Meeting Notes
June 15, 2017
- Options to upgrade the current skin or update mediawiki with media wiki skin + mobile skin
- Pan's team will look into upgrading authentication system on Wiki (Most likely Shibboleth Authentication). Pan will have an idea on the timeline after the team look into the options
- Issues with extension when upgrading to newer version: Math and DPL.
April 2017
- Ecosystem integration
- Maybe LTI? Talk to Derek
- Javascript - not-sustainable in Bb; need to test in new LMS. See here for the test result.
- Will to set up meeting with Derek
2017
May Update Wish List
- Update MediaWiki to 1.28.x. Note: 1.29 scheduled for June 2017
- Core Verf complete by April 1, Prod Go Live! date of April 29, 2017
- Revise or Rethink UBC CLF skin to make updates require less work.(done)
- Update Upload Wizard to include newest versions of Creative Commons License. Update CC-license templates.(done after the update)
- Implement Flow. Convert Liquid Threads to Flow
- Review functionality around changing user names to allow for users to set their own username rather than being derived from CWL.
- Review/update documentation, tutorials for using UBC Wiki (especially for teaching and learning).
- Review and update all extensions. Remove extensions not in common use.
- Add Timed Media Handler to allow audio files to be added to wiki.
- Review options/implement solution for rendering PDF's (especially via Collections extension}(extention itself is working to update)
- Review how wiki content embeds into new LMS/edX - roadmap wiki embed like functionality for those spaces. (Reviwed. potentially, it may be best to embed through iframe or oembed?)
- Extend Collection Extension to allow for embedding of collection into WP.(Extention itself needs to be updated)
- Transition Wiki to Shibboleth authentication [1](Done)
- Review front page - add "how to teach with the wiki" section(TBD after the update)