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).

Output

• We co-organized EMWCon 2023 and SMWCon 2023.
• We maintain a number of MediaWiki extensions: see this list
• We maintain WikiApiary, a list of MediaWiki instances run by 3rd parties.

Exchange of Experience

Real Life Meetings

• There were informal meetups at various MediaWiki related conferences.

Online Meetings

• 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.

Outreach

Real Life

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

Online

Participation in discussions on 3rd party relevant topics

• Discussions in Phabricator

Financials and internals

• 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.