EMWCon Spring 2020

The Enterprise Mediawiki Conference Spring 2020, or EMWCon Spring 2020, will be an online-only event held on the week of March 30 to April 3, 2020 in Sandusky.. 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.

Event details

 * Original announcement: here
 * Date/time: 9 AM - 5 PM, April 1-3, 2020 (plus a hackathon on March 30-31)
 * Location:
 * Online:
 * Wednesday, April 1: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/661574103
 * Thursday, April 2: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/472555868
 * Friday, April 3: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/374098335
 * Chat URL: https://riot.im/app/#/room/#emwcon:matrix.org
 * Social media: Please use the hashtag #EMWCon
 * YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVG_tuf3Q2fji-CwqEDRJpZuf23wevrq

Talks
Program coming soon

If you would like to give one or more talks, please put the talk title and your name below.


 * "Data Everywhere: Opportunities and Challenges for Enterprise MediaWiki" - Yaron Koren
 * "Maintaining your wiki: You know you have to" - Ike Hecht
 * Potential topics by Daren Welsh (I might be motivated by votes)
 * "Measuring Knowledge Management Success"
 * "Algorithms in Wikis"
 * "Structured Spaceflight Analog Testing in Wikis"
 * "Upcoming changes to MediaWiki" - Cindy Cicalese
 * "EMW for The Internet Court of Lies: Liecourt.com" - Bob Thibadeau, Ph.D.
 * Something Cargo/Lua - TBD if 1 or 2 talks - Megan
 * Site Reliability: monitoring and alerting in 3 easy steps - Greg Rundlett

Lightning talks
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 – from Talking to Knowing - Stanley Gould

Hackathon/Create Camp
Suggested topics:
 * 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)

Sponsors
The sponsors of EMWCon are: