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 playlist

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 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)