MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Annual Report 2017

Focus Areas
In 2017, we focused mainly on these areas:
 * MediaWiki and LDAP connection
 * Fantastic MediaWikis conference track
 * Organizing Enterprise MediaWiki Conferences

Output

 * High level information about MediaWiki: 6 blog articles
 * Various extensions have been created and improved by MWStake members to make MediaWiki easier for 3rd parties to use:
 * There is an still ongoing effort to standardize LDAP integration: LDAP hub.

Real Life Meetings
These meetings are used to discuss current issues of MediaWiki and of the Stakeholders' group with a wider audience. They are generally open to the public, thus reaching out to potential new members for the group.
 * Developer Summit 2017
 * Wikimedia Conference 2017
 * EMWCon Spring 2017
 * Vienna Hackathon 2017
 * Wikimania
 * SMWCon Fall 2017

Online Meetings

 * 11 regular telcos (Hangouts/BlueJeans), all documented

Real Life
In 2017, we actively participated in various MediaWiki and Open Source conferences, among others with these topics:

Online
Participation in discussions on 3rd party relevant topics
 * Office hours
 * Discussions in Phabricator

Financials

 * In 2017 we raised no money and we spent no money.