[Wikimedia-l] Proposal: MediaWiki Groups

[Quim Gil]

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#Milestones_by_quarter_17

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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation