MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Annual Report 2022

Focus Areas

In 2022, 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 MediaWiki instances (see output).
Outreach to relevant stakeholders. We have continued our efforts to reach out to MediaWiki maintainers by co-organizing conferences.
Exchange of experience among stakeholders, i.e. primarily people running MediaWiki as their platform. This was done in regular online meetings and through our discussion platform on Element.
Stabilization and continuity of MediaWiki experience. We actively maintain a number of MediaWiki extensions (see output).

11 regular telcos (video calls), all documented. Average attendance: 20 participants, with a range of 15-30 participants.
Ongoing chat discussions on Element - Several rooms for different topics. Activity in these rooms has again considerably increased compared to last year. This is now a well frequented medium for exchange and requests for help.

In 2022, we actively participated in various MediaWiki and Open Source conferences, among others with these topics:

EMWCon Spring 2022: Introducing EMWFS, Verifiable content in MediaWiki with hash chains, Panel: Future of Enterprise MediaWiki, State of the PluggableAuth family, ISO 27001 for and with enterprise wikis, Sharing generic functionality between extensions
SMWCon Fall 2022: MWStake community services, OpenCSP, Linked Data with SMW

Participation in discussions on 3rd party relevant topics

In the reporting period, the organisation collected
- USD 5,450 through membership fees
- USD 2,184 through conferences
In the reporting period, the organisation spent
- USD 13,364 on organizing conferences
We have a functional board with monthly meetings (all documented)
End of 2022, we had 17 voting and 3 corporate members.