Farming

several of the attendees were running wiki farms

farming should be kept in mind for update processes

Support desk

Support desk language is English. Hard for non-English speakers

You can post in other languages there and it will be translated.

We need to make that option more prominent as apparently it wasn't clear

Spam

Spam is a big issue for sites running MediaWiki. Especially new user registrations with spam accounts

We should ship the tarball with a good default configuration, e.g. to use SpamBlacklist with the list found on meta

Spambots get through even with confirm email configuration

Update / Upgrade

Extension compatibility is a big problem

Templates, gadgets and wikipedia functionality should be bundled. So you have a installation option "like Wikipedia"

Installer

ship the core

download extensions from somewhere

Vagrant

interesting for cloud. Should be one technology among others for shipping MediaWiki

Configuration

• we need some sort of extension manager