MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group

The MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group is a MediaWiki user group consisting of MediaWiki developers, system administrators, users, consultants, and hosting providers who cooperate in order to improve the software and advocate the needs of MediaWiki users outside the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and its projects.

The group was recognized by the Affiliations Committee on November 11, 2014 and renewed in January 2016. If you want to join us, see below how to participate.

This page serves the purpose of coordinating internal tasks of the group. To be kept up-to-date on our activities, you can follow the tasks on our workboard in Phabricator. We also keep an online presence at MWStake.org where we write about interesting news and events happening in the MediaWiki world.

Our scope of influence is deliberately broad and meant to be flexible to encompass the needs of our diverse community. Our areas of collaboration are described below.

Participate
If you want to take an active part in the group, here are the entrypoints:
 * Express your support at the list of contributors.
 * Join the MediaWiki Stakeholders Community on Google. This is where our meetings are announced.
 * Sign up for the group chat in Phabricator: #mwstake.
 * Contact Mglaser or Mark A. Hershberger for any questions you may have.

Communication and Contact

 * The official channel of communication of this group is the group chat in Phabricator: #mwstake. The chat is public, but you have to register in order to participate.
 * mediawiki-l is used as a fallback list for wider topics requiring community attention.
 * Follow us on Twitter: @mwstakeholders
 * Spokespersons for the group are Markus Glaser and Mark Hershberger.

Tasks
See our Phabricator board

Meetings
Meetings are announced and reported on our official website.

Reports and Presentation

 * Lightning Talk about MediaWiki Survey at Wikimedia Conference 2016
 * /Annual Report 2015/
 * Annual Report 2016 (draft)