MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/TechConf Input/Conference topics

How can we create a governance model?
There is no clear decision making process for MediaWiki. I would love to see us start on a process whereby we could predict what was happening with the software in the next year. We have some vague ideas, but no unified driving force.

☠ MarkAHershberger ☢ (talk) ☣ 19:45, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * ☠ MarkAHershberger ☢ (talk) ☣ 19:45, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Alexia E. Smith (talk) 22:36, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * --Krabina (talk) 11:47, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 11:06, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
 * RichardHeigl (talk) 11:56, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
 * 「 ディノ 奴 千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 00:49, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

A text suggestion tool
It's helpful to have a text-editing tool that helps contributors write better sentences

Lack of templates in MediaWiki
Templates are missing from Wikimedia. These are a headache to disentangle, understand, install and maintain for the end user who would rather be concentrating effort on adding wiki content. Individual wiki admins are forced to either write their own templates or export them from elsewhere e.g. Wikipedia.org. This is a wasteful dispersion of effort in place of collaboration. The templates that are exported from Wikipedia or Mediawiki are not universal and the target wiki then includes references to these sites instead of to itself.

Rob Kam (talk) 08:21, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * 「 ディノ 奴 千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 00:49, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Comments
This could be provided by a wiki repository, similar to Wikia/Fandom's Starter Wiki. This repository would have to be licensed as CC0, and there are open questions about maintaining multiple versions of templates, mostly in regard to whether the target wiki has installed features such as Scribunto or TemplateStyles. Since not all templates are of interest to all wikis, some sort of template pack feature, above and beyond just listing things on Special:Export, would be desirable (if designed/implemented correctly, this would also simplify and streamline selecting the correct version of templates for a given installation). 「 ディノ 奴 千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 00:49, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Release mangement unclear. Is there still one?
It appears that doing point releases when it comes to maintenance was apparently abandoned along the way. During the past nine months we have only seen two feature releases with unreleased fixes now piling up for both of them not to speak about the other older LTS branch and the regular branch still active sharing the same fate.

I suggest to reinstate doing point releases for maintenance purposes and to e.g. have a point release every quarter of a year - something somewhat predictable and plannable.

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 * &#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 11:16, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
 * — AfroThundr (u · t · c) 00:26, 14 August 2018 (UTC)