EMWCon Spring 2020

The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2020, or EMWCon Spring 2020, will be an online-only event held from April 1 to April 3, 2020. 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. The intended audience of EMWCon Spring 2020 is anyone who uses, or would like to learn to more about, MediaWiki within organizations.

There will additionally be an optional two-day pre-conference hackathon held on March 30 and 31, which will be coordinated in the EMWCon chat room.

Event details

 * Date/time: 9 AM - 5 PM (EDT), April 1-3, 2020 (plus a hackathon on March 30-31)
 * Riot chat URL:
 * Social media: Please use the hashtag #EMWCon


 * YouTube live stream of online conference:
 * Wednesday, April 1:
 * YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aXdWmpCJW6I
 * Thursday, April 2:
 * YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aSdMuC5V5HU
 * Friday, April 3:
 * YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aTdAd4Ht5Ig

Lightning Talk Sign Up
To give a short (5 minutes or so) lightning talk, plus put the title and your name below.


 * Mediawiker SublimeText plugin - why this is the best thing ever & how to set up - Megan
 * Project Teams – for Sustainable Knowing - Stanley Gould
 * Semantic Actions - Daren Welsh
 * Maps in MediaWiki. Highlights and new features - Jeroen De Dauw
 * Push your wikifarm pages with encrypted credential handling - Wolfgang Fahl

Create Camp
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.

Create Camp Sign Up

 * Getting started with Lua
 * Converting SMW structured data to Cargo & expanding on the Cargo vs. SMW comparison and Manual:Managing data in MediaWiki pages
 * Maybe also tinker with Wikibase (ref: small VM for testing Wikibase)