MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Annual Report 2020

Focus Areas

In 2020, 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 increased 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.
• Professionalisation. We completed incorporation and are recognized as a 501(c)(6) organisation.

Output

• We co-organized EMWCon 2020 and SMWCon 2020.
• We created a blog for MediaWiki maintainers and experts: https://mediawikiexperts.blog

Exchange of Experience

Real Life Meetings

Due to the travel restrictions imposed by the COIVD-19 pandemic, we did not conduct any real life meetings in 2020.

Online Meetings

• 12 regular telcos (video calls), all documented. Average attendance: 15 participants, with a range of 10-25 participants. We introduced an informational section called "Mediawiki News" to point out interesting topics in MediaWiki development.
• 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 2020, we actively participated in various MediaWiki and Open Source conferences, among others with these topics:

• EMWCon Spring 2020: Maintaining your wiki: You know you have to, A method for automating MediaWiki deploys using only tools you already use, Site Reliability: monitoring and alerting in 3 easy steps, Push your wikifarm pages with encrypted credential handling, E/SMW to tackle the Corona crisis, and more.
• SMWCon Fall 2020: Privacy considerations, Export semantic data via API, Mediawiki 1.35 Migration, and more.

Online

Participation in discussions on 3rd party relevant topics

• Discussions in Phabricator
• RfC on Hybrid extension management
• Participation in the Gitlab consultation

Financials and internals

• In the reporting period, the organisation did not collect or spend money. All necessary transactions were done by individuals.
• We are incorporated and registered in the US as a 501(c)(6) organization.
• We agreed on bylaws for the organisation.
• We have a functional board with monthly meetings. One person left the board in 2020 and was replaced.
• We agreed on a membership model. You can now officially become a member of the organisation at mwstake.org .