Hi,
I'm very excited to announce the launch of the Enterprise MediaWiki Consortium (EMC), an organization devoted to supporting and maintaining "enterprise MediaWiki" software.
As you may know, a lot of open-source software has some sort of organization or foundation that is intended to pool money from users of the software toward developers. MediaWiki is in an unusual situation: it is funded by the Wikimedia Foundation (and, to a lesser extent, Wikimedia Deutschland and others), but those organizations' primary allegiance is to software that runs on Wikimedia sites. That leaves a lot of MediaWiki-related software (extensions, skins, etc.) that is mostly intended for use on non-Wikimedia sites, i.e. "enterprise" uses: some of this software has significant usage, but very little of it has institutional support.
That is where the Enterprise MediaWiki Consortium fits in. It is intended to fund the development of extensions and other software that otherwise has no funding source. The set of software being funded is entirely up to the membership of the EMC, and of course the amount of support that can be provided depends on the amount of money that members contribute - an amount that will hopefully grow over time.
If you belong to an organization, company or website that makes use of MediaWiki - and specifically, of MediaWiki-related software not used on Wikimedia sites - please consider joining the Enterprise MediaWiki Consortium - to provide much-needed support for the software you use, and to have a greater say in shaping its future.
You can read more about the EMC here:
http://enterprisemediawikiconsortium.org/
-Yaron