Upstream projects

MediaWiki developers and users rely on several upstream projects for their architecture or processes. At the same time, they develop software projects used by others, which are downstream to them. These links define our location in the free software map, our neighbor communities, and the flows of feedback, patches, and contributors.

Let's identify our upstream projects, our neighbor communities, and the contributors that connect us with them.

Motivation
This is a first step to improve our relations with other communities, to increase the contributions received, and our influence in the projects that matter to us.

Our mid-term goals include:
 * identify the projects where we want to see significant development, to the point of sending patches as well
 * identify the communities where Wikimedia should be regularly active and heard
 * identify the people in the Wikimedia and upstream communities that know each other and act as bridge
 * identify organizations and events we should get in touch and be part of
 * get involved in bigger development efforts regularly, become a regular FOSS player

Invented here
See Maintainers for all components, libraries, and extensions that we maintain and deploy with or around MediaWiki.

For a larger list of software projects that we publish see Wikimedia Open Source.

More stuff (hundreds of projects) by fellow MediaWiki developers and Wikimedians is also listed at:
 * https://www.openhub.net/p/mediawiki-webtools
 * https://www.openhub.net/p/mediawiki-clients
 * https://www.openhub.net/p/mediawiki-scripts
 * https://www.openhub.net/p/wikibots
 * Others: https://www.openhub.net/orgs/wikimedia/projects

MediaWiki dependencies
Projects that we use server-side or client-side as part of MediaWiki core, or WMF-deployed extensions. See also key Wikimedia projects.

Development and operations
Projects that make up part of our development process to operate the production cluster itself. They are installed on Wikimedia servers and are used in the release process of key Wikimedia projects.

Integrated on Wikimedia projects
Projects that are used in some way (embedding, linking) with Wikimedia projects, but operated by volunteers e.g. in Wikimedia Cloud or Toolforge.

Editing tools
Applications commonly used by developers or editors. For a full listing, see the lists Open Source Toolset, FLOSS-Exchange, Q6584911.