MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Annual Report 2016

Focus Areas
In 2016, we focused mainly on these areas:
 * Continuation and improvement of MediaWiki User Experience. We are striving to keep user experience of MediaWiki as consistent and integrated as possible for self-installed MediaWkkis (see output).
 * WikiApiary. We took over maintenance of one major existing platform to gather usage statistics for self-installed MediaWikis.
 * Exchange of experience among stakeholders, i.e. primarily people running MediaWiki as their platform. This was done in regular online and offline meetings as well as through our newly built online platform at mwstake.org.
 * Incorporation. Though we are not incorporated yet, becoming a legal entity is vital to achieving our goals. We have made great steps by clarifying the place and form of incorporation.

Output

 * High level information about MediaWiki: 8 Blog articles
 * MoU
 * HitCounter, MWGit, SemanticMediaWikiConnector, Epub

Real Life Meetings

 * 4 January 2015 MWstake Meeting (Developer Summit 2016, San Francisco, California)

Online Meetings

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

Real Life

 * Developers' Summit in January 2016
 * participation of MWStake members
 * Wikimedia Conference - ??
 * Jerusalem Hackathon - 2 sessions
 * EMWCon Spring 2016 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2016/Program - 5 sessions
 * Wikimania Esino Lario - 5 sessions
 * SMWCon Fall 2016 Frankfurt - 5 sessions

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

Financials

 * In 2016 we raised no money and we spent no money.