5 August 2016 MWstake Meeting

Date (UTC):	5 August 2016 15:00:00 - 5 August 2016 16:00:00
URL:	https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E252
Etherpad:	https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mwstake-2016-08
Attendees:	Frank Taylor, Lex Sulzer, Mark Hershberger, Markus Glaser, Richard Heigl

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Notes from meeting

• WikiApiary
  • Next steps: Make WikiApiary a place for MediaWiki to phone home as well. Include list of extensions.
  • Get to know WikiApiary.
  • Move to WMF Labs. Before that we need to know how it works
  • Transfer wikiapiary mailing list to Wikimedia mailing lists
  • Can we somehow label it with mwstake, maybe a link or an icon
  • Schedule a WikiApiary hacking session at SMW Con

• SMWCon
  • How can we feature the other big wiki projects. e.g. cooperative hosting
  • WikiBar, a list of major MW sites on every major MW site

• Funding
  • piwik http://crowdfunding.piwik.org/
  • funding of individual features
  • only work on funded ideas
  • "my share +"...

• MoU
  • Quim said that it needed fewer mention of people since it looked like just publicity
  • Work on the what they're getting
    • Maybe it is already there and just needs to be rephrased
    • add some examples
  • Give it some legitimation from the stakeholders, maybe by email
  • Give to Katherine Maher (Strategy)

• On Incorporation as 501(c)(6)
  • "Federation" sounds like a good term to capture what the group is describing because it captures the spirit of unity and cooperation for mutual benefit while maintaining independence. FT

Action items

• ACTIONS for Markus
  • look into the mechanism for "Make WikiApiary a place for MediaWiki to phone home as well. Include list of extensions."
  • Schedule a WikiApiary hacking session at SMW Con

• ACTIONS for MH
  • Transfer wikiapiary mailing list to Wikimedia mailing lists
  • Touch base with Bernadette and move incorporation along
  • clean up MoU language
  • "Publish" MoU and get Katherine's buy-in.

• ACTIONS for Richard
  • Can we somehow label WikiApiary with mwstake, maybe a link or an icon
  • WikiBar, a list of major MW sites on every major MW site
  • add some examples to MoU of how WMF benefits