MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Annual Report 2023

Focus Areas

In 2023, 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).

12 regular telcos (video calls), all documented. Average attendance: 10 participants, with a range of 5-20 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 2023, we actively participated in various MediaWiki and Open Source conferences, among others with these topics:

EMWCon Spring 2023: Sponsorship opportunities for Semantic MediaWiki
SMWCon Fall 2023: Natural language interaction with a wiki, AI assistants for organizations, SMW community & survey, Small but useful MediaWiki extensions

Participation in discussions on 3rd party relevant topics

Our financial report can be found here . Note: This report is best effort and not externally audited.
We have a functional board with monthly meetings (all documented)
End of 2023, we had 16 voting and 6 corporate members.