MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Meetings/2014-12-05 Telco
Purpose
edit- previous meeting
Time and Place
edit- Dial in
- Whiteboard
- Attendees (for real)
Agenda
edit- Welcome - Markus
- MediaWiki Stakeholders Group Recognized!
- Release 1.24.0
- Upcoming release: Want anything special for that release?
- Bug reports and users' experiences - Mark
- RFC process
- How many people use composer as a basis?
- Extension management
- Opt-in "Registration" for update notification.
- State of projects
- Feature wishlist (Google Code-in students may work on this, too.)
- Roadmap
- Publicizing 1.24
- Future conferences for a track
- Wikimania 2015
- Mexico City, July 15-19
- Location and accommodation information are available at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids/Mexico_City
- European Hackathon 2015
- Lyon, France, May 23-25
- Location and accommodation information are available at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015
- US Hackathon Developer Summit 2015 (invitation only)
- San Francisco, California, USA, January 26 -27
- To register: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015
- SMWCon Spring 2015, TBD
- SMWCon Fall 2015, TBD
- Wikimania 2015
- Other
- Closing - Mark
Future Meeting Dates
editRegular meetings will be held on every first Friday of the month.
User Group Meeting Dates |
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2016-05-06 (Friday) |
2016-06-03 (Friday) |
2016-07-01 (Friday) |
2016-08-05 (Friday) |
2016-09-02 (Friday) |
2016-09-28 (during SMWCon Fall 2016 in Frankfurt) |
2016-10-07 (Friday) |
2016-11-04 (Friday) |
2016-12-02 (Friday) |
Minutes
editAttendees
edit- Markus
- Alexis (etherpad)
- Mark
- Cindy
- Karsten
- Natasha
- Chris
- Michael
MediaWiki Stakeholders Group Recognized!
edit- Markus shows status
- Yay! Thank you all for your involvement
Release 1.24.0
edit- Markus points out that this is the place to raise concerns regarding any problems
- Meetings are tied to releases
- What can we do better?
- Any findings? Plans?
- Cindy: there are plans for an update. Were several point releases behind. Commited to keep up with the point releases.
- Mark: once there's an official release, early adopter stuff is taken care of
- Karsten: Not updated yet. Usually uses the latest legacy. Running on 1.23.7. Users have custom skins. They want to run on LTS version. Tests on a test instance before, manually. Release scheme is a good thing.
- Natasha: did upgrade. Has a list of things to do. Depends on Edlira. Is confused by Composer. Some extensions break.
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g7MYYN6-AWRKp4AxdADUHx7jdsQe-XCl5V3fDEqfepM/edit
- Chris: running wmf-branch in production. No special issues found. Needed modern builds that work with mobile frontend and such, MultiMediaViewer, visualEditor
Upcoming release: Want anything special for that release?
editBug reports and users' experiences
edit- Mark watched reports about people having trouble with upgrading
Report on MW users meeting in Houston
edit- People seemed to like MW more than SP (SharePoint Wiki)
- Presentation my NASA and WikiEm.org an
- SP is pushing against MW. It would be good to come up with pros and cons
- There's some experience with 2003 SP
- Chris: can work on a comparison
- Cindy: Strength is fine graned access control
- Markus: SP is ok for small collaboration, but MW is much better for larger.
RFC process
edit- We take part in the RfC discussion to bring te stakeholders' view into the discussion
How many people use composer as a basis?
edit- Cindy: selective enabling / disabling of a feature on a wiki farm (not supported)
- Karsten +1
- Composer works with homogenous wikis, but not otherwise.
- Makes upgrading fast, but can be problematic if one extension isn't upgraded. if the dependency wasnt updated properly
- Mark: we need a GUI
Extension management
edit- What are the requirements?
- Come up with requirements -- Markus will be asking for feedback on mailing list.
- Mark will talk to Quim and Rachel about Cindy going to SF
Opt-in "Registration" for update notification.
edit- There will be a special page: CheckMyVersion
State of projects
editFeature wishlist
edit- Google Code-in students are helping by looking over mailing list.
- Alexis: currently one student has claimed the task of looking over the month of September 2014
Roadmap
edit- RFCs substitute for roadmap right now.
Publicizing for MediaWiki
edit- Richard wrote some blog post under CC license free to use: MediaWiki - Software moving towards the future
- Part 1: Skinning, Mobile, Dialogues: http://blog.blue-spice.org/2014/12/01/mediawiki-software-moving-towards-the-future-part-1-of-3-skinning-mobile-dialogues/
- Part 2: Visual Editor and simultaneous editing: http://blog.blue-spice.org/2014/12/02/mediawiki-software-moving-towards-the-future-part-2-of-3-visual-editor-and-simultaneous-editing-of-texts/
- Part 3: Communication, Wikidata, Translation: http://blog.blue-spice.org/2014/12/03/mediawiki-software-moving-towards-the-future-part-3-of-3-communication-wikidata-translation/
- A German version is available on the Hallo Welt blog.
Future conferences for a track
edit- Wikimania 2015
- Mexico City, July 15-19
- Location and accommodation information are available at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids/Mexico_City
- European Hackathon 2015
- Lyon, France, May 23-25
- Location and accommodation information are available at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015
- US Hackathon Developer Summit 2015 (invitation only)
- San Francisco, California, USA, January 26 -27
- SMWCon Spring 2015, TBD
- SMWCon Fall 2015, TBD
- We need to find ways of funding travel to these conferences
- Could be a test case for our own funding
- Funding raised for track could be used to support travel.