EMWCon Spring 2020

The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2020, or EMWCon Spring 2020, was an online-only event held from April 1 to April 3, 2020. It was originally planned to be held in Sandusky, Ohio (see here for what this page used to look like), but due to the coronavirus pandemic was instead a three-day online event (with an additional two-day online hackathon beforehand, for those who could devote a whole week).

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 was anyone who uses, or would like to learn to more about, MediaWiki within organizations.

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 playlist

Create Camp
The Create Camp was held during the conference. It comprised small groups working together online on projects of interest to them: programming projects, demonstrating best practices, tutorials, documentation efforts - anything related to MediaWiki that the attendees cared to work in small groups. Some projects spanned the entire Create Camp while others were scheduled for shorter time periods such as an hour. A working schedule was created on the conference page during the Create Camp opening session. The Create Camp ended with a closing session where groups reported out on their projects.

Create Camp Ideas

 * Composer RFC v2.0 -- help us work on a new RFC for using composer to install extensions (Friday Morning, 1-2hr)
 * 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)
 * Using GIT and MediaWiki (deployment, Version control) - Jesse Kwaks (preferably Friday 9AM - 30-60 mins)
 * Intro WSForm - Charlot Cobben (preferably Friday 9AM - 30-60 mins)
 * Internet Court of Lies Developer Outreach Discussion: Review of Workflow we are automating, and Payment System Requirements (1-2 hours one session or split): wizards welcome.
 * How-To Requests:
 * Cross-site semantic query - Goal: populate SMW properties in Wiki A with Semantic Data in Wiki B - Is it possible? What are the possible approaches?
 * check this out (haven't used it yet): https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticExternalQueryLookup
 * Getting VE4All to work on MW 1.31 (LTS) - Is it possible? If so, what is the right combination of repos and versions
 * Getting Extension PUSH to work on MW 1.31 (LTS) between 2 co-located SAML SSO Wikis - Is it possible? If so, what is the right configuration
 * Getting SemanticApproved Revisions to work on MW 1.31 (LTS) - Is it possible? If so, what is the right combination of repos and versions
 * Use Page ID instead of page names in URLs. Squeak24 (talk) 20:54, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Recovering External Image Overlay in Page Forms input type "Maps"
 * Use Javascript to remove Visual Editor from page if user is using Internet Explorer. V brooks (talk) 20:52, 1 April 2020 (UTC)