Report from Wikidata: They will explore "federating" across Wikibases -- that is "distributed" queries.
MediaWiki Stakeholders Group
This group is focused on the Mediawiki software
It's for developers, consultants, and administrators of MediaWiki sites running in organizations or on the Web somewhere but not on the Foundation sites.
They have monthly online meetings
They are the main organizers of two annual conferences, the Enterprise and Semantic MW conferences (EMW & SMW)
Locations alternate between Europe and North America. this year they worked well online.
As of this year the Stakeholders are an official nonprofit organization
They plan to support and organize some extension software development
This is a monthly meeting for US government staff running internal MediaWikis, within their government agencies
State Dept’s Diplopedia is 14 years old now. That's one of the ways they manage knowledge across embassies where people are moving around all the time.
Energy Dept’s Powerpedia's had 10th birthday this year, with a public presentation and awards. A video is on youtube
Those are big wikis
New Nuclepedia at Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NASA has great MediaWiki developers
We have monthly meetings and a listserv.
If you are a US government staffer you can tune in. You can reach out to Tom and me.
I personally there should be a big mediawiki available to all the civil service. We can gain a lot from that kind of interchange. Agencies can learn from one another.
Canada does that and the US should do it too.
So although we don't have that yet I think there's great potential for growth.
That's it for me.
For Wikiworld comments
General wiki movement
WMF Board of Trustees membership/process changes
Role of Jimmy Wales and representatives of "affiliates"
"community" representation contrasted with "professionals"
SWAN, WALRUS -- meetings of affiliates
possible Global Council and Movement Charter
For report on Enterprise MediaWiki CoP
Diplopedia for 14 years; Powerpedia's 10th birthday, new Nuclepedia; note size/activity
