MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Tasks/Feature wishlist/2019 assessment

During EMWCon Spring 2019, desired features for MediaWiki were discussed in a panel discussion and in a create camp group.

Prior work

 * MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Tasks/Feature wishlist/2015 assessment
 * Developer_Wishlist/2017/results
 * Third-party_MediaWiki_users_discussion/Summary
 * DevSummit 2018: Supporting Third-Party Use of MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183312
 * TechConf 2018: Building MediaWiki to Support Collaboration https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206075
 * TechConf 2018: Choosing installation methods and environments for 3rd party users https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206059
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Feature_map
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap

Review 2015 stakeholders wishlist

 * Easier installation, extension management and a better upgrade process are being addressed by Meza, but there is still work ahead. Everyone is encouraged to contribute to that project.
 * Editing and VisualEditor - Installation issues will be solved by the Parsoid port (ongoing since 2015, planned to take another ~2 years). Not much we can do to hasten that.
 * Skinning and UI - RfC ongoing right now: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217158

Group thoughts
This is a brief list of features discussed as being important for enterprise use cases:
 * Fine-grained access control
 * Packaged ontologies to bootstrap new wikis
 * Improvements in output formats like PDF
 * Better search
 * Personal file management (like dropbox)
 * Being able to check out a file like in Sharepoint
 * Continued improvement of VE

Actionable steps

 * 1) Expand the use of the "Maintained by mwstake" banner
 * 2) * Have companies put their logo next to the extension banner for "who uses this"
 * 3) * How do we audit the use of the banner (make sure it is used appropriately, what are the rules/steps for an extension to get the banner)?
 * 4) * Can we create a "curated" list of extensions that are useful for enterprise users (start with Meza?)
 * 5) * Can we hook into Wikiapiary or MediaWiki Pingback to grab info about who uses what extensions?
 * 6) Make templates similar to Template:OnWikimedia for major enterprise MediaWiki users (preferably including whom to contact to ask about usage of that extension at that org) to build trust in widely used extensions