4 December 2020 MWstake Meeting

Date (UTC):	4 December 2020 16:30:00 - 4 December 2020 17:30:00
URL:	https://meet.google.com/mdd-ufhn-ksb
Etherpad:	https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mwstake-2020-12
Attendees:	Alex Tanchoco, Bernhard Krabina, Bob Watts, Bryan Hildebrand, Caleb Cooper, Cindy Cicalese, Geert Van Pamel, Gergő Tisza, Igor Absorto, Ike Hecht, Jeroen De Dauw, Lex Sulzer, Lexi McGillivray, Mark Hershberger, Markus Glaser, Michael Barylak, Nick Parrott, Patrick Marvin, Peter Meyer, Peter Woudsma, Rich Evans, Tim Ruijters, Vincent Brooks, Yaron Koren

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Meeting agenda

1. Wait for attendees & chat 5 min
2. MediaWiki News 5 min Mark
3. SMWCon 20 min TBD
   • The Semantic MediaWiki Conference this year was a huge success
   • Some discussions about what worked well and any issues that came up
   • YouTube Playlist
4. Community Wishlist Survey 2021 5 min Bryan
   • The submission phase is now closed (30NOV) with 288 proposals
   • The voting phase is coming up (08DEC – 21DEC)
   • Any feedback is welcome, some things I found interesting that might be relevant to MWStake:
     • Copy and paste from diffs (Editing)
     • Bring back PDF book rendering (Misc.)
     • Support 360 photo viewing (Multimedia & Commons)
     • Section on Wikidata
5. WMF Stable Interface Policy 10 min Cindy
   • The email from WMF mentions MWStake
   • https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-December/094086.html
   • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268328
   • https://github.com/MWStake/nonwmf-extensions
6. Creating reusable MediaWiki products 15 min Yaron
   • Developing community driven MediaWiki products (ISO, CRM, BPM, etc.) that can be shared via Page Exchange/Docker
7. How to become a member 5 min Mark
   • Information about how to become an MWStake member
8. Wiki Watercooler remaining Open Mic

Notes

1. MediaWiki News Gergo
   • Proposal to make shelling out from MediaWiki containerizable: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260330
   • Firefox required version upped to 3.6: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262946
   • A bunch more requirement changes are being discussed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266866
   • RfC for a more formalized way to provide config snippets, mainly for testing: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267928
   • Old RfCs still being discussed: extension Composer compatibility, DB upgrade support for old versions
   • Wikimedia Movement Strategy Global Conversations: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition/Global_Conversations
2. SMWCon
   • SMWCon Page
   • Many thanks to Bernhard Krabina, Richard Heigl, and others that put it together, it was a great sucess
   • Not all the talks are out yet, but here is the YouTube playlist
3. Community Wishlist Survey 2021
   • link to survey
4. WMF Stable Interface Policy
5. Creating reusable MediaWiki products
6. How to become a member
7. WikiConference North America (WCNA)
8. Chat service recommendation

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