T102048 - Wikipedia Library Card Platform project currently nine months behind - I don't think "Enterprise MediaWiki" is that vague the way I use that term, it refers to a fairly specific set of extensions.T1035 - discussion of calendaring for Wikimedia.T48704 - discussion of extension management on.- another potentially useful "Enterprise MediaWiki" extension.No real discussion about this at the moment. Decrease creation and use of custom, limited-purpose software.on Wikimedia sites like and the Wikimania sites. Increase ease of data entry, findability, calendaring etc.I still think they'd be better off switching to MediaWiki, even given all the work that's been put in already. I believe the project was supposed to be done in February 2016 I don't know what the current status is, but it's not yet done at the time of this writing. I think they should have gone with MediaWiki and some of the extensions I mentioned, but they instead decided to create a custom solution. Not to pick on a random project, but one I happen to know about is the Wikipedia Library Card Platform project. There's no shortage of other potential uses for these extensions within the WMF. Similarly, events like Wikimania that already use MediaWiki could benefit from greater structure for data entry and data viewing. Event and conference management: there's no reason the planning for an event like this one needs to be shoehorned into task-management software like Phabricator using Page Forms would allow for less-hacky custom forms for talk proposals and the like.Viewing events in calendars: this can easily be done in MediaWiki (on, Meta or both) using these tools.Extension management on : these extensions would make finding extensions (say, notification extensions that work with MW 1.25) simple instead of arduous.There are various ways that the WMF could be making greater use of "Enterprise MediaWiki": They're also in use within the Wikimedia Foundation, although to a more limited extent than they could be. These extensions, and some others that are often used in conjunction with them, are in use by hundreds, perhaps thousands, of organizations, including major companies (GE, JP Morgan, etc.) and major governmental and quasi-governmental organizations (NATO, NASA, etc.). The two are quite similar to one another, though believe Cargo, which is newer (and which I'm also the main author of) is the superior extension. Another two are Cargo and Semantic MediaWiki, which both let you store and query the structured data within wiki pages. Chief among these, in my opinion, is an extension that I'm the main author of: Page Forms, known until very recently as Semantic Forms, which lets you create and edit wiki pages via pre-defined forms. I collectively refer to such extensions as "Enterprise MediaWiki", since they can be used internally by organizations for various data management purposes. But there exist various extensions - mostly developed outside the Wikimedia Foundation - that make MediaWiki ideal for other, smaller purposes as well. We all know that MediaWiki is ideal software for creating massive, open knowledge stores. Main topic: "How to grow our technical community", maybe The problem
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