Hi, here you have a draft about MediaWiki Groups, and implicitly MediaWiki reps:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/MediaWiki_groups
Imagine
MediaWiki Amsterdam Group MediaWiki HTML5 Group MediaWiki Women Group ...
MediaWiki groups organize open source community activities within the scope of specific topics or geographical areas. They extend the capacity of the Wikimedia Foundation in technical events, training, promotion and other technical activities benefiting Wikipedia, the Wikimedia movement and the MediaWiki software.
This proposal is being discussed in the MediaWiki context and goes in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation short term goals [1]. Feedback from the wider Wikimedia community is welcome, especially on how to combine these groups with chapters and other existing Wikimedia entities.
Note that these are intended to be _just_ groups, not formal organizations legally constituted. We are looking after simple processes for creation and management of these groups with basically zero budget.
We expect these groups to become a main delegation/empowerment tool to organize more, more distributed and more diverse technical activities. They fit perfectly in the Wikimedia Foundation strategy and the way the Wikimedia movement grows.
Please bring your ideas to the discussion page - or here. Thank you!
[1] Find mentions to "user groups" at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals#Milestone...
What a coincidence! We're just talking about this in Wikimedia Argentina and Iberocoop (I've forwarded your email from wikitech-l to them).
I'm interested and looking forward to working with you on these groups :-)
Regards, Patricio
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi, here you have a draft about MediaWiki Groups, and implicitly MediaWiki reps:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgil/MediaWiki_groupshttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/MediaWiki_groups
Imagine
MediaWiki Amsterdam Group MediaWiki HTML5 Group MediaWiki Women Group ...
MediaWiki groups organize open source community activities within the scope of specific topics or geographical areas. They extend the capacity of the Wikimedia Foundation in technical events, training, promotion and other technical activities benefiting Wikipedia, the Wikimedia movement and the MediaWiki software.
This proposal is being discussed in the MediaWiki context and goes in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation short term goals [1]. Feedback from the wider Wikimedia community is welcome, especially on how to combine these groups with chapters and other existing Wikimedia entities.
Note that these are intended to be _just_ groups, not formal organizations legally constituted. We are looking after simple processes for creation and management of these groups with basically zero budget.
We expect these groups to become a main delegation/empowerment tool to organize more, more distributed and more diverse technical activities. They fit perfectly in the Wikimedia Foundation strategy and the way the Wikimedia movement grows.
Please bring your ideas to the discussion page - or here. Thank you!
[1] Find mentions to "user groups" at https://www.mediawiki.org/** wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/**2012-13_Goals#Milestones_by_**quarter_17https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals#Milestones_by_quarter_17
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On 12/04/2012 09:34 AM, Patricio Molina wrote:
What a coincidence! We're just talking about this in Wikimedia Argentina and Iberocoop (I've forwarded your email from wikitech-l to them).
I'm interested and looking forward to working with you on these groups :-)
¡Perfecto! Then keep reading:
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Proposal: MediaWiki Groups Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:25:26 -0800 From: Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
After some valuable feedback from the Affiliations Committee and others, plus a big wave of silent approval...
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/MediaWiki_groups
Feedback welcome again. As soon as we get consensus here and the green light from the AffCom we will move the page to its official location.
Now, essentially:
MediaWiki Group = Wikimedia User Group + MediaWiki extension
Such extension is just a set of extra rules of coordination within the MediaWiki community:
* Defined name schema: MediaWiki _something_ Group. * Defined location of proposals. * Discussion period in main MW mailing list. * Defined location of main pages groups approved. * Recommended: endorsement from MW maintainers or WMF devs.
The big change is located in the way a new group is created:
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AQgil%2FMediaWiki_groups&a...
And we have moved away the idea of MediaWiki reps. We will deal with that separately, with Wikimedia coordination (if there is an ongoing discussion about this topic) or not.
How does this look like now?
And now the fun part:
IF you are reading these lines AND you are interested creating a group just put your betatesting shirt on and head to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/(((myGroup)))
Without "MediaWiki" or "Group", as in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Lua https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Bangalore etc
Start editing and reply to this thread in wikitech-l. You will help us fine tuning this process while it's being setup and we will help you becoming one of the first MediaWiki groups ever. Deal?
On 11/29/2012 04:50 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
Hi, here you have a first draft about MediaWiki Groups, and implicitly MediaWiki reps:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/MediaWiki_groups
MediaWiki groups organize open source community activities within the scope of specific topics and geographical areas. They extend the capacity of the Wikimedia Foundation in events, training, promotion and other technical activities benefiting Wikipedia, the Wikimedia movement and the MediaWiki software.
Imagine MediaWiki Germany Group, MediaWiki Lua Group...
These groups may become a significant source of growth and wider diversity of our community.
Please bring your ideas to the discussion page - or here. Thank you!
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