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MediaWiki-Gruppen organisieren Open-Source-Community-Aktivitäten im Rahmen spezifischer Themen und geografischer Gebiete. Es sind Wikimedia User Groups, die sich auf eine Koordinationsebene im MediaWiki-Kontext einigen. Damit erweitern sie die Kapazität der Wikimedia Foundation in events, training, Promotion und andere technische Aktivitäten zugunsten von Wikipedia, der Wikimedia-Bewegung und der MediaWiki-Software.

MediaWiki-Gruppen sind offen für Mitglieder von verschiedene Fachgebiete und Expertenlevel. Je reicher und vielfältiger, desto besser. Auch nicht-technische Nutzer, die bereit sind, etwas beizutragen und zu lernen, sind willkommen! Alle Gruppen verpflichten sich zur Friendly space policy.

MediaWiki groups can request support from the Wikimedia Foundation and chapters in various forms.

Thematic groups
Thematic MediaWiki groups collaborate with their logical counterparts in the wider FLOSS community. They are global groups, collaborating online.
 * They are in touch with communities within the same focus.
 * They participate in events of the same topic.
 * They promote related training and outreach activities.
 * They help improving the related documentation in wikimedia.org.
 * They collaborate with the related development teams.
 * Eventually some of them meet at [//wikimania.wikimedia.org/ Wikimania].

Local groups

 * San Francisco

Local MediaWiki groups collaborate with Wikimedia chapters, See also Wikipedia meetups and other local communities related with Wikimedia, free software, free culture... Their focus consists in face to face activities:
 * Organization of local events: meetups, training, hackfests... These events adhere to the WMF Friendly space policy.
 * Participation in events held in their area.
 * Distribution of merchandising.
 * Promotion of local contributors to global MediaWiki and Wikimedia activities.

Also for non-English speaking groups: Local groups must be really local. Starting points like e.g. Recife, Munich or Saint Petersburg are better than Brazil, Germany or Russia. If you miss a channel for regional coordination then consider a regional mailing list.
 * Localization of documentation and software following translatewiki.net processes.

Creating a group
You don't need anyone to propose a group, just yourself. To get it approved you must have at least three contributors.

Check Groups/Proposals for more details to create your MediaWiki group.