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==Distribution==
There's a huge wiki world beyond Wikimedia Foundation.<ref>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113210</ref>
(Sabine?)
===Downloads===
* The downloads in China are remarkable high
===Hosting===
* Thousands of installed MediaWiki on shared hosting (one-click) providers
===Most downloaded extensions===
Even to know, which extensions are popular is nearly impossible. Some data from December 2014 (shared by Legoktm) are interesting. And give a first impression of needed add-ons in wikis beyond the Wikimedia Foundation. ManyΒ  "top 20" extensions already prove the intense use of MediaWiki in companies and organizations.Β 
===Comparisons with Wordpress and other content management systems===
(Richard)
* Compare trends. Searches for Wordpress and MediaWIki, Confluence ...
* Comparison searches for wiki and blog: Wiki more popular. But MediaWiki is not the most important player
* Reason: No ecosystem for MediaWiki established, SMW, BlueSpice, Wikia, WMF ... working separated.
==Typical MediaWiki users==
The '''typical survey participant''' is either a developer/administrator or in management and works in a small organization with 25 or less people. Using MediaWiki now for over 5 years, he counts as long time user. He is managing 2–5 wikis, from which at least 1 is public and 1 private. The user sees 25 or less people on his wiki. The user uses MediaWiki because of it being Open Source and easy to use due to its similarity to Wikipedia. His public wiki is a fun site and his enterprise wiki is used for internal knowledge creation and management. He is unhappy with the upgrade process and the installation of new extensions and would like to see WordPress-like simple update buttons in the admin backend. For the enterprise wiki, access control and a functioning easy Visual Editor are important, but even more important is a slick, superpretty GUI. The user is part of the software community and contributes some feedback and bug reports. He also spreads the word. Irritating is the connection to Wikipedia and the scrambled software documentation, which isn't very user-friendly. Community-wise, he wishes for a master plan, good communication and easy ways of involvement to give back to the community and support the project.
===Position/Title===
<blockquote class="surveyquote">β€žSysadmin, high Queen, that idiot.β€œ</blockquote>
Out of 134 participants of the survey, almost every fifth (20Β %, 27) is in software development, every sixth (1Β  %, 22) is a software admin. External functions like management and leadership can be fond in every sixth participant (1Β  %, 20), one eight (12 %, 17) has science and academic background. Defined wiki-users only acount for 12Β % (12Β %, 16) of the participants. 1 out of 10 have any other external background. (10 %, 14). A maximum 4 percent of the participants (4 %, 5) have direct or indirect relation to WMF or are software distributors.Β  About one eighth of the answers (12Β %, 16) were either unclear or unanswered.
In 10 survey participants:
* 2 are software developers
* 2 administrators
* 2 are in management/leadership position
* 1 have academic background
* 1 are solely wiki-users
* 2 are doing something else...
* 1 does not answer the question
<small>Details: [[{{PAGENAME}}/What is your position or title?]]</small>
===Sizes of organization===
About half of all participants work in organizations with 25 or less people (48,12 %, 64). Every fourth participant is part of an organization between 25 and 500 people (21 %, 28). Organizations with 500 or more people account for almost a third of all (28 %, 37).
<small>Details: [[{{PAGENAME}}/How large is your organization?]]</small>
===Usage time of MediaWiki===
More than half of the survey participants are long time users of MediaWiki, they use it 5+ years (54 %, 72). Almost a quarter is still using the software for 3–5 years (22 %, 30). The last quarter of participants is using the software for 1-2 years or less than 6 months. (24 %, 32). New users, who use the software for less than 6 months, account for about 5 % of the participants (5 %, 7). This figure can be an indication for how visible the survey was to new users.
<small>Details: [[{{PAGENAME}}/How long have you been using MW?]]</small>
===Number of MediaWiki sites===
The vast majority of users is managing 2 or more MediaWiki sites (almost 70 % of all). More than a third of all users / 4 out of 10 users manage 2–5 wikis. This is the highest figure in total (40 %, 54). Together with managers of 5-10 wikis, this accounts for half of all users. Every third participant is managing 5 or more. (30 %, 40). The figure of users managing more than 10 wikis is double as high (19 %, 26) as those managing 5 to 10 wikis (10 %, 14). Still, a quarter of the participants is managing 1 single MW site (25 %, 34). Only a few participants (4,5 %, 6) are not managing any MW site.
<small>Details: [[{{PAGENAME}}/How many MediaWiki sites do you manage?]]</small>
===Public and private sites===
Out of 133 answers, 36 users manage public wikis (27 %), 38 users manage private wikis (28,5 %) and 59 users manage a mix of both (44 %).
<small>Details: [[{{PAGENAME}}/Are your sites public or private?]]</small>
===Number of users===
Out of 133 answers, about a third of all survey parcicipants have 25 people or less on their wikis (36 %, 48), 1 in 10 participants are using the wiki just to themselves (11 %, 15).
Relatively equally spread are the numbers of wikis with more users than 25:
* 25–100 > (19 %, 26)
*100–500 > (15 %, 20)
*500+ > (25 %, 33)
Significant is the number of large wikis with 500 users or more, which account for a quarter of all participants (25 %, 33).
<small>Details: [[{{PAGENAME}}/Approximately how many people are there on your MediaWiki sites?]]</small>
==Extensions and age of the used wikis==
===MediaWiki versions===
===Updates===
===Most important extensions===
===Reasons for using MediaWiki===
==Feature requests==
(Richard)
===Primary requirements===
===Secondary requirements===
=== What would you like to see most improved in MediaWiki the software? ''–– The feature wish list.'' ===
<blockquote class="surveyquote">β€žI pretty much love it as is.β€œ</blockquote>
Out of 113 answers, the most wanted features (mentions) are easy software and extension management, installation and upgrade process (30), detailed access control and enterprise support (12), a feature-rich and functioning editor out of the box (13). An extremely important valued feature is the GUI, UX, usability and the skinning process (18). Users see themselves confronted with the spam problem (6). Participants also see improvements in speed (4), in the development itself (4), have ideas for the codebase (5). File (3) and image handling (4) can be improved, as well as language support (3). Better handling of wiki farms (4). They would like to see support for other databases (2), better error messages (2) and better support for new users (in a wiki) (2). Mobile Frontend (2) could be there out of the box. Template handling (2) can bee improved as well as the search function (2). The discussion pages (2) and the watchlist feature (2) could be improved.
<small>Details: [[{{PAGENAME}}/What would you like to see most improved in MediaWiki the software?]]</small>
See also: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group/Tasks/Feature_wishlist MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Tasks/Feature wishlist], where most content was already included.
==Community==
===Contributions for the community===
===Improvements and barriers===
==Next steps and requirements==
(Chris, Mark, Markus, all .....)
* Reliability
* Standardization
* Services in core
* MediaWiki Foundation
==See also==
* Chris Koerner: [[MediaWiki_Usage_Report_for_Wikimania_2015|MediaWiki User Report]], Wikimania 2015
* [[MediaWiki_Usage_Questions|MediaWiki Usage Questions]]
==References==
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