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 on the EMWCon chat URL.

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

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.

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)