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The MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group is a User Group with a focus around supporting usage for third-party MediaWiki wikis. There's dozens of us! According to [[ https://wikiapiary.com/ | Wikiapiary ]] there are more editors in 3rd party wikis than all of the English Wikipedia. That's a lot of people administering, developing, and editing wikis! Join us for an in-person (and theoretically online) meeting to discuss our work around supporting these uses. **Rough Agenda** What can we do to increase awareness and support of third party usage from the WMF? - This is the "What's in it for the foundation/movement" aspect. - We're leaving developers on the table! - No one has stars on their belly - if they don’t know about these events (like the hackathon) they can't help. - Maybe they don’t feel welcome? - Make events a safe space for non-wmf developers - This helps in growing the ecosystem and the MW platform - This makes non-wmf MW developer note feel like an afterthought What can we do to encourage outside enterprises to contribute their work back to MW and the community? - Invite them to join us! - The community is a way to find support - Be part of a larger community - your bug reports, patches, extensions, gadgets, skins, etc can help others. - There’s gold (or silver) in them that hills - the financial and perceptual benefits to contributing to open-source projects Learn more at the following links: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group http://mwstake.org Google Hangout Link for remote folks: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/event/c196qa28sejfsde401b3u411b8k?authuser=0&hl=en

The MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group is a User Group with a focus around supporting usage for third-party MediaWiki wikis. There's dozens of us! According to [[ https://wikiapiary.com/ | Wikiapiary ]] there are more editors in 3rd party wikis than all of the English Wikipedia. That's a lot of people administering, developing, and editing wikis! Join us for an in-person (and theoretically online) meeting to discuss our work around supporting these uses. **Rough Agenda** What can we do to increase awareness and support of third party usage from the WMF? - This is the "What's in it for the foundation/movement" aspect. - We're leaving developers on the table! - No one has stars on their belly - if they don’t know about these events (like the hackathon) they can't help. - Maybe they don’t feel welcome? - Make events a safe space for non-wmf developers - This helps in growing the ecosystem and the MW platform - This makes non-wmf MW developer note feel like an afterthought What can we do to encourage outside enterprises to contribute their work back to MW and the community? - Invite them to join us! - The community is a way to find support - Be part of a larger community - your bug reports, patches, extensions, gadgets, skins, etc can help others. - There’s gold (or silver) in them that hills - the financial and perceptual benefits to contributing to open-source projects Things we could tactically build (more ideas welcome) - Improve documentation about installing and managing MW installations - Host events around third-party mediawiki usage - Build things (code and patches) that assist third-party use - Improve extension management - Improve extension documentation (such as on mediawiki.org) - Hitcounter extension for 1.25 - search customizations (ask Chris about showing Categories on search results) - Improving crawl rules - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T10473 - Limiting access to reading a wiki Learn more at the following links: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group http://mwstake.org Google Hangout Link for remote folks: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/event/c196qa28sejfsde401b3u411b8k?authuser=0&hl=en

The MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group is a User Group with a focus around supporting usage for third-party MediaWiki wikis. There's dozens of us! According to [[ https://wikiapiary.com/ | Wikiapiary ]] there are more editors in 3rd party wikis than all of the English Wikipedia. That's a lot of people administering, developing, and editing wikis! Join us for an in-person (and theoretically online) meeting to discuss our work around supporting these uses. **Rough Agenda** What can we do to increase awareness and support of third party usage from the WMF? - This is the "What's in it for the foundation/movement" aspect. - We're leaving developers on the table! - No one has stars on their belly - if they don’t know about these events (like the hackathon) they can't help. - Maybe they don’t feel welcome? - Make events a safe space for non-wmf developers - This helps in growing the ecosystem and the MW platform - This makes non-wmf MW developer note feel like an afterthought What can we do to encourage outside enterprises to contribute their work back to MW and the community? - Invite them to join us! - The community is a way to find support - Be part of a larger community - your bug reports, patches, extensions, gadgets, skins, etc can help others. - There’s gold (or silver) in them that hills - the financial and perceptual benefits to contributing to open-source projects Things we could tactically build (more ideas welcome) - Improve documentation about installing and managing MW installations - Host events around third-party mediawiki usage - Build things (code and patches) that assist third-party use - Improve extension management - Improve extension documentation (such as on mediawiki.org) - Hitcounter extension for 1.25 - search customizations (ask Chris about showing Categories on search results) - Improving crawl rules - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T10473 - Limiting access to reading a wiki Learn more at the following links: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group http://mwstake.org Google Hangout Link for remote folks: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/event/c196qa28sejfsde401b3u411b8k?authuser=0&hl=en