Groups/Proposals/MediaWiki Cooperation


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MediaWiki Group Wiki Co-op

This group will advocate the needs of all users of MediaWiki. It especially targets use of MediaWiki outside the Wikimedia Foundation.

Areas of collaboration:
 * Communication and coordination among MediaWiki users
 * Coordination between different groups of MediaWiki developers
 * Foster the ecosystem around MediaWiki
 * Facilitate implementation of MediaWiki features
 * Improve documentation of extensions and MediaWiki visibility
 * Contribute to the development of MediaWiki

We are requesting official recognition from the Affiliations Committee for a first period of one year, after which we would become a permanent group.

News

 * YYYY-MM-DD: Proposal announced to wikitech-l. (((link must point to the announcement. Feel free adding more links to announcements in other channels)))

Communication
The official channel of communication of this group is its |Discussion page.

mediawiki-l is used as a fallback list for wider topics requiring community attention.

Related

 * Related links welcome!


 * (((Links to related pages at mediawiki.org)))

See also:
 * (((Links in other Wikimedia sites or other websites, if any.)))

Contributors

 * MediaWiki groups need at least 3 people to be approved.

Promoters
 * I'm a long time MediaWiki contributor, mostly in the field of i18n and L10n. I've been involved in translatewiki.net as a community manager since 2006, and I've been contracting for the Wikimedia Foundation since 2009. siebrand (talk) 13:54, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm a part of the release team and a contributor to MW. At one time I was a WMF staffer, but now I'm a MW consultant. -- ☠ MarkAHershberger ☢ (talk) ☣ 13:55, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm part of the release team and a contributor to MW. Also I work a lot with corporations using MediaWiki. --Mglaser (talk) 13:59, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm a long time user of Semantic MediaWiki. --Krabina (talk) 14:24, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * More promoters welcome! (((One is enough, but all the better if you have 2-3.)))

Members
 * Legoktm (talk) 13:53, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Mattsenate (talk) 13:54, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * --RichardHeigl (talk) 13:58, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Illuminatusds (talk) 14:02, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * --Krabina (talk) 14:23, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * --Nikerabbit (talk) 14:26, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * --Natkabrown (talk) 22:39, 11 August 2014 (UTC) - I make http://wikitranslate.org/wiki/Russian
 * --Manuel Schneider(bla) (+/-) 10:10, 12 August 2014 (UTC) Wikimedian mostly active in chapter tech, also hosting 60+ wikis on my corporate server farm, very interested (but a beginner) in SMW
 * (((Add your name and sign by using "--~" . All the better if you Introduce yourself briefly.)))

Other endorsements
 * (((Other people not planning to be members of this group can also express public support))).