Membership

The MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group is a Wikimedia-affiliated user group for users of MediaWiki. You can read more more on mwstake:About.

The Vision is to make MediaWiki the most effective open source knowledge sharing software. The purpose is to preserve and promote MediaWiki as open-source collaboration software for the benefit of all users. You can read more about our vision, purpose, activities in our Bylaws.

You are invited to become a member of our corporation!

Besides some of the membership benefits (mentioned below) it is a good idea to support the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group with a financial contribution when you

• share our vision and purpose (see Bylaws),
• want to support our activities (see Bylaws),
• want to support our Projects (eg. cover some of your recurring costs),
• want to contribute to us becoming a sustainable undertaking,
• simple think we are awesome :-)

In order to do so, you need

1. to create an account on mwstake.org
2. after successful login, you can click on "Become a Member"
3. there you can become a member and pay the membership fees by credit card
   1. after you have registered as an individual member, you can update the membership to a corporate membership

The following Membership Dues Schedule represents the Individual/Ordinary and Corporate membership dues.

Membership Dues Schedule

	Individual	Corporate†
		Bronze	Silver	Gold
Yearly cost ($USD)	$100	$500	$1,000	$2,500
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
Vote weight at membership meetings	1	1	2	5
Discounted tickets per MWStake conference (SMWCon & EMWCon)	1	1	2	5
Logo displayed on mwstake.org		Y	Y	Y
Logo displayed at MWStake conferences (SMWCon & EMWCon)				Y

†	It is necessary to purchase an individual membership in addition to a corporate membership. That individual will vote for themselves as well as their organization.