Following the October 15, 2014 Quarterly Review, the consensus is that the release team shall implement a lightweight environmental scan to answer the following questions:
*Who are the third party customers of MediaWiki?
*Among the list of customers, who are the influencers and who have opinions?
Description
Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
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Declined | None | T76896 Wiki Release Team First Quarter 2015 Quarterly Review | |||
Resolved | Ckoerner | T100217 Prepare presentation for Wikimania 2015 regarding MediaWiki usage outside of WMF community/projects | |||
Duplicate | None | T951 Compile a List of MediaWiki Third Party Customers | |||
Resolved | MarkAHershberger | T1136 Extract and Sort WikiApiary Database |
Event Timeline
clusters / wiki hives/farms: wikia.com, metapedia.org, uncyclomedia, gamepedias, orain.org, editthis.info, wikkii.com (gone?), neoseeker, wikitravel, wikisite, referata, shoutwiki, wikifur, scoutwiki, rodovid, anarchopedias, opensuse, pardus, gentoo, w3cwikis, lxde, sourceforge
single big wikis: memory-alpha.org, wowwiki.com, yoyowiki.org
Thanks for creating a phabricator report for this task; the task description http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2014/5212244702920704 is not clear, please clarify the required steps here.
- Duplicates: please point to https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/WikiApiary:Handling_duplicate_names (and update the docs there). Fixing 20 duplicates is enough work for one task.
- New wikis: please instruct how to add them as wikiapiary ns0 pages, otherwise the work can't be considered a contribution to MediaWiki.
- Finding new wikis: sounds unlikely, but we have tools such as https://gist.github.com/nemobis/7718061 and others in WikiTeam repo.
I could use some feedback on this task. We have over 130 responses to the recent MediaWiki Users Survey. We have published the data from that survey, but omitted any identifying information. Is that of any value or importance in furthering this task?
The survey definitely helped and it produced "a list".
However, I think this task would like a more comprehensive list. If we can get a substantial number of responses from closed wikis to something like opt in site registration (T76579) then I'll consider this a success.
Perhaps this should be made a tracking task to keep track of the different ways we're trying to collect that information.