About

TheMediaWiki Stakeholders' Group (MWStake) is a MediaWikiuser group consisting of MediaWiki developers, system administrators, users, consultants, and hosting providers who cooperate in order to improve the software and advocate the needs of MediaWiki users outside the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and its projects.Read more about ourmission.

The group wasrecognised by the Affiliations Committee onNovember 11, 2014 and renewed in January 2016.

• LDAP hub – Relaunch of LDAP extension
• Maintenance ofWikiApiary
• Collecting community input forMediaWiki Development

Ourofficial web presence ismwstake.org, of course a MediaWiki, with some enhancements.

Events and Presentations

• MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Spring 2025, May 14-16 in Sandusky, Ohio
• Semantic MediaWiki Conference Fall 2023 in Paderborn, Germany
• Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2019 in San Francisco
• Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2018 in Houston
• Wikimedia Hackathon 2017 -Fantastic MediaWikis and How to Maintain Them (Track)
• EMWCon Spring 2017 -Third-party wikis
• Wikimedia Conference 2016:Lightning Talk about MediaWiki Survey at Wikimedia Conference 2016

Surveys

• MediaWiki Usage Report 2015
• Feature Wishlist 2014

User Group Reports

• Annual Report 2023
• Annual Report 2022
• Annual Report 2021
• Annual Report 2020
• Annual Report 2019
• Annual Report 2018
• Annual Report 2017
• Annual Report 2016
• Annual Report 2015

Participate

Speakers

• Markus Glaser (Germany)
• Mark A. Hershberger (Pennsylvania, US)

• Official MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group channels of communication:
  • general MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group discussion (Element)
  • MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group events (Matrix.org)
  • use and development of extensions by MediaWiki stakeholders (Element)
  • projects:
    • showcase wiki (Element)
    • NASA's meza installer (Element)
    • creating a unified MediaWiki installer (Element)
    • Project MediaWiki Manager (Element) &GitHub
  • non-MediaWiki-related discussion (Element)
• Other MediaWiki channels of communication:
  • mediawiki-l (mailing list)
  • MediaWiki on Discord
• Information aboutMWStake channels of communication

• Monthly online meetings: listed under Upcoming Events atmwstake.org

• Sign up for the group chat in Phabricator:#mwstake.Group page
• Twitter:@mwstake_group (Contact:Cindy Cicalese)
• Web:Official website

See ourPhabricator board