MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Annual Report 2021

Focus Areas

In 2021, 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 2021 and SMWCon 2021.
• We worked on a management system for MediaWiki: MediaWiki Manager
• We made MediaWiki development outside of the WMF ecosystem more visible with superrepositories: extensions and skins
• We created re-usable components: Github
• We maintain a number of MediaWiki extensions: see this list

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 2021.

Online Meetings

• 12 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.

Outreach

Real Life

In 2021, we actively participated in various MediaWiki and Open Source conferences, among others with these topics:

• EMWCon Spring 2021: Confluence-to-MediaWiki migration script, MWStake MediaWiki Manager: Initiatives to facilitate managing MediaWiki deployments , Panel: MediaWiki Consulting, and more.
• SMWCon Fall 2021: MediaWiki and Docker, Open Content Service Platform, and more.

Online

Participation in discussions on 3rd party relevant topics

• Discussions in Phabricator
• Active participation in the Project Open CSP

Financials and internals

• In the reporting period, the organisation collected
  • USD 8,700.00 through membership fees
  • USD 1,690.00 through workshops
• In the reporting period, the organisation spent
  • USD 1,156.70 on conference sponsorships
• We have a functional board with monthly meetings. One person left the board in 2021 and was replaced.
• End of 2021, we had 10 voting and 4 corporate members.