7 April 2017 MWstake Meeting

Date (UTC):	7 April 2017 15:00:00 - 7 April 2017 16:00:00
URL:	https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E336
Etherpad:	https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mwstake-2017-04
Tags:	#wmcon
Attendees:	Chris Koerner, Greg Rundlett, Mark Hershberger, Markus Glaser, Richard Heigl

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• etherpad

Agenda

• Village pump page for ongoing discussion of MWStake on WMF strategy

  Cindy writes: I've added an #mwstake discussion page for the Wikimedia Strategy 2017. The idea is to allow folks with an interest in MediaWiki to have a place to discuss and have input into the Strategy. The next step would be to advertise the page. Ultimately, discussion from the page would be summarized on meta. I won't be able to attend the meeting tomorrow, but please discuss advertising the page. Thanks!

  • Social media
  • mwstake.org
  • Mailing lists - mediawiki-l, ??
• Foundation Strategy process

  Above Village pump fits into this

  Markus pushed MediaWiki in the "Beyond Wikipedia" cluster at Berlin's WMCon

  We need to participate in the strategy process to get it into the WMF strategy

  Lession Learned: Find allies before strategy session so MW gets more visibility

  If we want to leave a footprint, we need to be involved in strategy

  this is 15 year strategy, we really need to get involved

  ACTION: Markus get MWStake members involved in the discussion

• Strategy Highlight

  gives us focus

  ACTION Mark will lead groups' internal work on strategy

• Hackathon track

  Submission deadline is over. We've got seven submissions -> Cool track :-)

  Victoria Coleman agreed to join a panel. Victoria is very supportive - "make something happen"

  Mark talked to Victoria about the document we gave her and she said, the most surprising piece of information was that 'most contributions to MediaWiki come from "outside", from the MediaWiki community'. She was impressed and this information helps her internally

• EMWCon next year

  Make it an MWStake event

  ACTION Mark is working on this with Daren Welsh and getting input from Cindy and Chris K.

• Enterprise hackathon before then

  TBD

• MediaWiki Cookbook

  Idea started from Iterview with Barb