EMWCon Spring 2019

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The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2019, or EMWCon Spring 2019, was held on April 3-5, 2019 in Daly City, California (near San Francisco). EMWCon is a three-day 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 2019 is anyone who uses, or would like to learn more about, MediaWiki within organizations.



Event details

 * Date/time: 9 AM - 5 PM, April 3-5, 2019
 * Location: 7th floor, Genesys headquarters, 2001 Junipero Serra Blvd Daly City, CA 94014 (see Google map)
 * 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
 * Etherpad for MWStake meeting: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/EMWCon2019MWStake

Keynote
We are honored to have Denny Vrandečić - Semantic MediaWiki co-creator, Wikidata founder, Google ontologist, former Wikimedia Trustee - join us to present a keynote. He will present "Wikidata and beyond", including a quick update on the status of Wikidata and a discussion of his idea for an Abstract Wikipedia.

Lightning talks
On the second afternoon of the conference, there will be an opportunity for attendees to give short (5 minutes) lightning talks. If you know in advance that you would like to give a lightning talk, add your name and the name of your lightning talk(s) below. Lightning talks will also be accepted at the time of the talks if there is time available.
 * 1) Upcoming changes to the MediaWiki parser (Tgr) - bit.ly/emwcon2019-lt-parser
 * 2) Wikimedia Movement Strategy (Tgr) - bit.ly/emwcon2019-lt-strat
 * 3) Wikimedia Audiences Perspectives (Tgr) - bit.ly/emwcon2019-lt-persp
 * 4) Don't forget Admin Links! (Yaron)
 * 5) Wikimedia talk page consultation (Tgr) - bit.ly/emwcon2019-lt-talkpage
 * 6) Add your lightning talk here.

Create Camp
The third day of the conference will consist of self-organized groups working together around topics of common interest. Some of those topics might be planned before the conference, while others may come out of the talks in the two previous days. If you have an idea for a topic for a group during the Create Camp, please add it below.

Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/EMWCon2019CreateCamp


 * 1) Create a SMW Set of classes that operate as a classical property chain.
 * i.e. "Site/Building/Room/Location" or "kingdom/phylum/class/order.." or "System/Subsystem/Element", "Company, Org, Branch, Division"
 * the goal of the create camp would be to show how one would create a system of categories, forms, templates, properties, and pages that would allow users to implement *any* generalized organizational scheme that fits the traditional structured-tree.
 * 1) Roadmap to MediaWiki as an enterprise platform What needs to be done to make MediaWIki more appealing to more enterprise users?
 * 2) Identify reasons MW isn't taken seriously by companies/orgs (we all know the selling points, but what is it missing?)
 * Advertising? MS Office integration? Actionable discussion?
 * 1) Outline a path to address each of these reasons
 * 2) (somewhat related to the above) Come up with a plan for proper read permission handling in MediaWiki: estimate difficulty and required resources, write fundraising / grant application plan, draft initial RfC
 * 3) Generate third-party feedback for the Talk page consultaion
 * 4) Dockerizing MediaWiki Setup
 * 5) There will be a MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group at 1pm. Everybody is welcome to attend if they are interested.
 * 6) Discover how to change the default date display behavior in Gantt charts produced by Ext:Mermaid
 * 7) How to create & install your first extension
 * 8) Show the tasks in the job queue from a Special page, with an extension
 * 9) Create tutorials for onboarding new users from an enterprise perspective
 * 10) Your Create Camp idea here.

Social activities
There will be social activities (with food and drinks) on both main evenings of the conference:
 * Wednesday evening, April 3: bowling and billiards at Sea Bowl
 * Thursday evening, April 4: a reception at the Wikimedia Foundation office in downtown San Francisco

Tuesday evening meetup
On the evening of Tuesday, April 2, the evening before the conference, there will be a Write the Docs meetup, to be held at Genesys HQ, in the same venue as the main conference. The topic will be the use of MediaWiki for documentation at Genesys. All EMWCon attendees are invited to attend this meetup, though if you do want to attend, please sign up on the meetup page.

Unofficial conference sign-up
To indicate that you are interested in attending, please add your name below:
 * 1) Yaron Koren
 * 2) Nikerabbit (talk) 12:24, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 3) Legoktm (talk) 20:23, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 4) Peter Woudsma
 * 5)  Harjot Singh
 * 6) Tgr (talk) 09:27, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 7) Bryan Hilderbrand
 * 8) Cindy Cicalese (talk) 13:45, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 9) David Strine
 * 10) Lex
 * 11) Ike Hecht
 * 12) Barry Grenon
 * 13) Zoranzoki21 (talk)
 * 14)  Erika Bjune
 * 15) James Montalvo
 * 16) Vincent Brooks
 * 17) Costa Mavridis
 * 18) Greg Rundlett (talk) 18:17, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
 * 19) Peter Meyer 25 Feb 2019
 * 20) Alex Tanchoco
 * 21) Phil Keith
 * 22) Jared Olson
 * 23) Clément Flipo
 * 24) Rich Evans
 * 25) Matteo Busanelli
 * 26) Claire Braico
 * 27) Thomas Fellows
 * 28) Daren Welsh
 * 29) Erik Biegert
 * 30) Matt Erbst
 * 31) Megan Cutrofello
 * 32) Airy Magnien
 * 33) Ed Jamer
 * 34) Kirk Rector
 * 35) Billy Coffield
 * 36) Tom Harriman
 * 37) Paula Cooper
 * 38)  Tina Tenbergen

Accommodations
If you would like to stay at a hotel in the area, here are some suggested options that are not too far from the conference site:


 * Hampton Inn San Francisco-Daly City
 * 2700 Junipero Serra Boulevard, Daly City
 * 0.7 miles away - 16 minute walk, 2 minutes by car, 10 minutes by BART
 * ~ $300/night


 * El Camino Inn
 * 7525 Mission St, Daly City
 * 1.3 miles away - 28 minute walk, 5 minutes by car, 20 minutes by BART
 * ~ $160/night
 * Note: this hotel is relatively cheap, and relatively close, but please check the reviews before reserving here - people have had mixed experiences.


 * Nineteen 06 Mission (bed and breakfast)
 * 1906 Mission St., San Francisco
 * 6 miles away - 25 minutes by car, 25 minutes by BART
 * ~ $170/night


 * Comfort Inn & Suites San Francisco Airport West
 * 611 San Bruno Ave. East, San Bruno
 * 7 miles away, 12 minutes by car, 37 minutes by BART
 * ~ $230/night


 * The Dylan Hotel at SFO
 * 110 S El Camino Real, Millbrae
 * 9 miles away - 15 minutes by car, 35 minutes by BART
 * ~ $210/night


 * Fairfield Inn & Suites at SFO
 * 250 El Camino Real, Millbrae
 * 9 miles away - 15 minutes by car, 35 minutes by BART
 * ~ $275/night

If you wish to share a hotel room with other attendees, or to stay with a local attendee, in order to save on costs, please add your name below.
 * Your name here

Sponsors
We also want to thank two other organizations which, though not directly sponsoring the conference, are providing financial assistance:
 * The Open Semantic Data Association, who are providing financial backup for the conference
 * The Wikimedia Foundation, who are providing catering for the Thursday reception at the WMF office

Finally, we would like to thank Genesys, for graciously providing the facilities for the conference.