MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group

The MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group is a MediaWiki user group consisting of MediaWiki developers, system administrators, users, consultants, and hosting providers who cooperate in order to improve the software and advocate the needs of MediaWiki users outside the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and its projects.

The group was recognized by the Affiliations Committee on November 11, 2014 and renewed in January 2016. If you want to join us, see below how to participate.

This page serves the purpose of coordinating internal tasks of the group. To be kept up-to-date on our activities, you can follow the tasks on our workboard in Phabricator. We also keep an online presence at MWStake.org where we write about interesting news and events happening in the MediaWiki world.

Our scope of influence is deliberately broad and meant to be flexible to encompass the needs of our diverse community. Our areas of collaboration are described below.

Participate
If you want to take an active part in the group, here are the entrypoints:
 * Express your support at the list of contributors.
 * Join the MediaWiki Stakeholders Community on Google. This is where our meetings are announced.
 * Sign up for the group chat in Phabricator: #mwstake.
 * Contact Mglaser or Mark A. Hershberger for any questions you may have.

Communication and Contact

 * The official channel of communication of this group is the group chat in Phabricator: #mwstake.
 * (question: how do you sign up? going to the link gives me an error saying I have no permission to view it, and there is no visible way to get permission)
 * mediawiki-l is used as a fallback list for wider topics requiring community attention.
 * Follow us on Twitter: @mwstakeholders
 * Spokespersons for the group are Markus Glaser and Mark Hershberger.

Meetings

 * past
 * 2016-01-08 (Friday) (Notes on Etherpad)
 * 2015-11-06 (Friday)
 * 2015-10-10 (Saturday)
 * 2015-09-04 (Friday)
 * 2015-08-07 (Friday)
 * 10th telco, 10. April 2015
 * 9th Telco, 14. March 2015
 * 8th Telco, 13. February 2015
 * 2nd Meeting, 26. January 2015
 * 7th Telco, 10. January 2015
 * 6th Telco, 5. December 2014
 * 5th Telco, 7. November 2014
 * 4th Telco, 17. October 2014
 * 3rd Telco, 26. September 2014
 * 2nd Telco, 5. September 2014
 * 1st Telco, 22. August 2014
 * Initial Meeting, 8. August 2014 (Etherpad)


 * future

Reports and Presentation

 * Lightning Talk about MediaWiki Survey at Wikimedia Conference 2016
 * /Annual Report 2015/