Movement Strategy/Initiatives/Third party ecosystems

Engagement of third party ecosystems

In order to increase the Sustainability of Our Movement in terms of technology and people, we should engage new people in the development of our platform, specifically from third-parties. The term “third-party” here refers to external developers who are not part of the Wikimedia movement, but who contribute to improving the MediaWiki software. There are many opportunities to encourage those developers to make more contributions. Ongoing projects like Wikibase and Parsoid are providing those in certain contexts, but there is room to grow.

Active engagement of third party ecosystems in the development of MediaWiki technologies (e.g. Wikibase and Parsoid).
— Movement Strategy recommendation #1: Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement

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Initiative	Project	Stakeholder type	Project lead	Geography of the project	Implementation Phase
6. Engagement of third party ecosystems	Overall Initiative Coordination
6. Engagement of third party ecosystems	Chapter Capacity Building for Advocacy Program	WMF	Global Advocacy (Public Policy)	Global	Pilot

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