Groups/Promotion

MediaWiki Group Promotion welcomes all contributors interested in promoting MediaWiki and Wikimedia software and technical activities.

Areas of collaboration:


 * Reaching out to new MediaWiki community contributors.
 * Growing MediaWiki Groups.
 * mediawiki.org homepage and main landing pages.
 * Promoting Wikimedia apps.
 * Comms, blogs, social media.
 * Events organization and participation.
 * Materials: slides, basic tutorials, white papers...
 * Merchandising.
 * Community metrics.
 * Collaboration with other free software projects.
 * Collaboration with other wiki communities.
 * Growing the MediaWiki CMS user base.

This initial charter is wide, but there is a big overlap of people working in these areas. We can spin-off new groups for specialized areas whenever it makes sense to split.

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

 * 2012-12-21: New task: help making How to contribute the definitive landing place for new contributors.
 * 2012-12-22: Group proposal submitted to the Affiliations Committee.
 * 2012-12-21: Social media sorted out: we have now @MediaWiki at identi.ca, Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Wikimedia Social Media team acknowledges.
 * 2012-12-20: New task: MediaWiki presentation template.
 * 2012-12-17: two FOSDEM proposals submitted: Lightning & Community development and Marketing DevRoom.
 * 2012-12-14: Proposal announced to wikitech-l and other lists.

Related

 * Related links welcome!


 * Volunteer coordination and outreach
 * How to become a MediaWiki hacker
 * Mentorship programs
 * Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects
 * Technical communications/Tech blog activity
 * Wiki Loves Monuments mobile application/Marketing
 * Quim Gil's backlog contains many marketing related tasks waiting for someone to take them up.

See also:
 * Marketing
 * commons:Category:Wikimedia promotion
 * http://outreach.wikimedia.org

Who is interested

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

As promoters
 * Quim Gil, working at the Wikimedia Foundation as technical outreach coordinator and pushing MediaWiki Groups anywhere. Eating own dog food by pushing this thematic group.--Qgil (talk) 18:40, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * More promoters welcome!

As members
 * Sharihareswara (WMF) (talk) 22:25, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Juliendorra (talk) 16:03, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yuvipanda (talk) 21:17, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Superm401 - Talk 23:36, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Harsh Kothari (Talk)08:14, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Your signature here.

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