fyi -------- Original Message -------- Subject: MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own! Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:14:39 -0800 From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> MediaWiki Groups are now official - and recognized by the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/ Who wants to start one? I just created https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/San_Francisco as a real test of the process and a real example of a local group. Other local groups are welcome. If you are in San Francisco and you want to be part of this group add yourself to that page. Any ideas welcome! Looking at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events there are some local groups especially welcomed: * Amsterdam * Bangalore * Berlin * Brussels * Buenos Aires * Chennai * Cologne * Hong Kong * Los Angeles * Paris * Pune * San Diego * Tel Aviv * Washington DC ... and wherever you are sitting now. :) The gates for topical groups are also open. I will start pushing one about Testing / QA, also to test the process with a real example. More proposals? Thank you to all the people that provided feedback about the MediaWiki Groups proposal and especially to * Federico Leva (alias Nemo), who was especially helpful with his close marking and attention to detail - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nemo_bis * Bence Damokos was a perfect Affiliations Committee chair and helped fine tuning the proposal to make it fit with the Wikimedia User Groups - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bdamokos -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil