MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Spring 2024/Program
All talks are 30 minutes long including questions unless stated otherwise. Times listed are PDT (UTC -7).
| Conference Day 1 - Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | ||
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | ☕ | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Welcome, Logistics, and Introductions (15 minutes) - James Hare and Cindy Cicalese
MediaWiki product ramp-up - direction and approach to sustainability (45 minutes) - Birgit Mueller (remote) Using MediaWiki for Organizational Risk Management at NASA GRC-ATF - Rich Evans (linkedin) | |
| 10:30 AM- 11:00 AM | ☕ | Break |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | MediaWiki as a generic rapid-development platform - Anil Sethi, Selfiie
Beyond Wikidata: building a universal knowledge graph with MediaWiki and Wikibase - James Hare KnowledgeGraph extension - Bernhard Krabina (remote) | |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 🍴 | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Make the most of MediaWiki with Juggel - Ad Strack van Schijndel (remote)
AI at MyWikis - Jeffrey Wang, MyWikis MediaWiki based Raspberry Pi kiosk for a museum - Tina Tenbergen and Mark P. | |
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | ☕ | Break |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 🔗 Don't be a [[Square]]! Keeping up with wikitext changes - C. Scott Ananian
🔗 Creating a directory of extension and skin usability - Yaron Koren | |
| 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 🍷 | Wikimedia Happy Hour, Superette Bar at the Jupiter NEXT |
| Conference Day 2 - Thursday, April 18, 2024 | ||
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | ☕ | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 🔗 Keynote: New Discoveries Mining Federated Wiki’s Recent Changes - Ward Cunningham (1 hour) | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | ☕ | Break |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Introducing GoogleTagManagerEvents, an extension for sending events to GTM required for Google Analytics 4 - Devendra Yerukumajji (remote)
Announcement of MWCon Fall 2024 (10 minutes) - Bernhard Krabina (remote) State of Canasta, Spring 2024 - Jeffrey Wang The Return of MEZA - NASA's MediaWiki-EZ-Administration Project - Greg Rundlett (linkedin) (remote) | |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 🍴 | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Difficulties in introducing MediaWiki to technical and non-technical audiences - Mark P. and Tina Tenbergen
Introducing the WikiTide Foundation - Brent Laabs 🎥 DRUID infoboxes - Megan Cutrofello (remote video) | |
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | ☕ | Break |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 🔗 Orchestration with Puppet - Daniel Scherzer, WikiTeq
MediaWiki is a bit like math for knowledge (10 minutes) - Tina Tenbergen 🔗 Adding comments to a page with InlineComments extension (15 minutes) - Brian Wolff Introducing Codex, the new Design System for Wikimedia (10 minutes) - Eric Gardner Let's discuss CreateWiki (10 minutes) - James Hare How MediaWiki helps NASA avoid mishaps at GRC-ATF (10 minutes) - Rich Evans (linkedin) | |
| 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | 🍴 | Conference dinner, The Eastburn |
| Conference Day 3 - Friday, April 19, 2024 | ||
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | ☕ | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Graph visualization of WikiSearch data (15 minutes) - Wout Gevaert, Wikibase Solutions
What's new in FlexForm (15 minutes) - Charlot Cobben | |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Create Camp | |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 🍴 | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Create Camp (continued) | |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Create Camp Closing Session (60 minutes) | |