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EMWCon Spring 2021 was anonline-only event held on April 20-22, 2021. The event occurred between 9 AM and 5 PM, Eastern Time, on each of those three days.EMWCon is a conference featuring discussions of topics related to "Enterprise MediaWiki", i.e. the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies, non-profits, governments, and other organizations. Attendance will be free.
This event consisted of talks, demos, panels, lightning talks, and a one-day hackathon/"Create Camp".
Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic (hopefully on its way out!), this conference took place virtually again this year. Attendees needed to create a free account onHopin. Please use the following link to sign-up and attend:
The main platform will be Hopin, but the conference Main Stage will be simulcasted on YouTube:
We are honored to have as our keynote speakerHåkon Wium Lie, who is best known as the main creator of CSS. He was also the longtime CTO of the company Opera (makers of the Opera browser), and most recently has helped to run the MediaWiki-based websiteRettspraksis.no.
All talks are 30 minutes long including questions unless stated otherwise. Times listed are EDT (UTC -4).
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| Conference Day 1 - Tuesday, April 20, 2021 | ||
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 🎥 Welcome, Logistics, and Introductions -Bryan Hilderbrand 🎥 Keynote:CSS, public access to information, & producing books from the web -Håkon Wium Lie 🎥 🔗 Page Forms: State of the Extension -Yaron Koren | |
| 10:30 AM- 11:00 AM | ☕ | Break |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 🎥 🔗 Wikipush Toolkit Application in the ConfIDent Project -Wolfgang Fahl 🎥 🔗 Confluence-to-MediaWiki migration script -Robert Vogel 🎥 🔗 WSForm current status and intro to WSPageSync -Charlot Cobben | |
| 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM | 🍴 | Break |
| 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 🎥 🔗 Deploying MediaWiki to Kubernetes 101 -Jeena Huneidi 🎥 Panel: Wikimedia & Enterprise MediaWiki (60 minutes) - Yaron Koren (Moderator), Cindy Cicalese, Markus Glaser, Mark Hershberger, Brian Wolff | |
| 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | ☕ | Break |
| 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | 🎥 🔗 MWStake MediaWiki Manager: Initiatives to facilitate managing MediaWiki deployments (Code Base) -Lex Sulzer 🎥 🔗 Editing your wiki with Python is easier than you think -Megan Cutrofello 🎥 🔗 USSF Tactical Doctrine Wiki -Jared Olson | |
| Conference Day 2 - Wednesday, April 21, 2021 | ||
| 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 🎥 🔗 Faceted search using Elasticsearch and SMW - Robis Koopmans 🎥 🔗 A MediaWiki based content services platform -Ad Strack van Schijndel 🎥 🔗 Squaring the circle: How Wikimedia Enterprise is offering commercial SLAs the wiki-way (60 minutes) (Commons video) -Lane Becker,Ryan Brounley, &Liam Wyatt | |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | ☕ | Break |
| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | 🎥 Panel: MediaWiki Consulting (60 minutes) - Richard Heigl (Moderator), Jeroen De Dauw, Alexander Gesinn, Ike Hecht, Ad Strack van Schijndel, Lex Sulzer Lightning Talks (30 minutes): 🎥 Naming your extensions - Yaron Koren 🎥 Idea "MECE Manager" - Lex Sulzer Lighting Talk #3 - Speaker | |
| 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 🍴 | Break |
| 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM | 🎥 🔗 Breaking up the Monolith: The MediaWiki Expedition -Daniel Kinzler &Petr Pchelko 🎥 🔗 Enterprise Data Map POC : With Semantic MediaWiki and GraphViz (15 minutes) -Alex Tanchoco | |
| 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM | Create Camp Opening Session (45 minutes) | |
| 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Create Camp: Create Camp 1 - Leader Create Camp 2 - Leader Create Camp 3 - Leader | |
| Conference Day 3 - Thursday, April 22, 2021 | ||
| 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Create Camp: Create Camp 4 - Leader Create Camp 5 - Leader Create Camp 6 - Leader | |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Create Camp Closing Session (60 minutes) | |
Please add your name below if you are planning to attend.
To give a lightning talk at EMWCon, please add its title below.
The Create Camp will be held during the conference. It will comprise small groups working together online on projects of interest to them. These can be programming projects, demonstrating best practices, tutorials, documentation efforts - anything you care to work in small groups related to MediaWiki. Some projects will span the entire Create Camp while others may be scheduled for shorter time periods such as an hour. We will maintain a working schedule here during the Create Camp of the timing. The Create Camp will start with an opening session where the group can discuss projects - although please feel free to add project suggestions below in advance to help planning. The Create Camp will end with a closing session where groups can report out on their projects.
Suggested topics:
The current sponsors of EMWCon are:
To become a sponsor, please contactIke Hecht.