MediaWiki user conferences

A series of MediaWiki user conferences has been held since 2008, generally twice a year, alternating between Europe and North America. These conferences began with a specific focus on the Semantic MediaWiki extension, before broadening to include all of the software around MediaWiki. They have been held under a variety of names, most notably the Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon), the Enterprise MediaWiki Conference (EMWCon), and, most recently, the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference (MUDCon).

The conferences are for anybody interested in MediaWiki, including users, developers, consultants, business or government representatives, students, researchers, and staff members of the Wikimedia Foundation. They are a great way to meet members of the third-party MediaWiki community, especially if you are new to MediaWiki.

Past conferences have included speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds; notable past keynote speakers include Ward Cunningham (the inventor of the wiki), Håkon Wium Lie (primary inventor of CSS and former CTO of Opera), Denny Vrandečić (co-creator of Semantic MediaWiki, Wikidata and Wikifunctions), and Markus Krötzsch (co-creator of Semantic MediaWiki and Wikidata).

Mission

The conferences aim to:

inspire/onboard new users,
inform on where and how MediaWiki is used,
convey and consolidate best practices,
initiate/foster/integrate application and development and
strengthen the community around MediaWiki.

Events

The next planned events will be:

MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2026, November 11-13 at Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Spring 2027, TBA, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Below is a list of previous events, in reverse-chronological order.

2023

SMWCon Fall 2023 – 11 to 13 December 2023, in Paderborn, Germany, and online (hybrid)
EMWCon Spring 2023 – April 19-21, 2023, in Austin, Texas, USA, and online (hybrid)

2022

SMWCon Fall 2022 – 26 to 28 October 2022, Breda, Netherlands, and online (hybrid)
EMWCon Spring 2022 – April 6-8, 2022, in Houston, Texas, USA, and online (hybrid)

2021

SMWCon Fall 2021 – 8 to 10 December 2021, online
EMWCon Spring 2021 – April 20-22, 2021, online

2020

SMWCon Fall 2020 – 24 to 26 November 2020, online
EMWCon Spring 2020 – April 1-3, 2020, online

2019

SMWCon Fall 2019 – 25 to 27 September 2019 in Paris, France
EMWCon Spring 2019 – April 3-5, 2019 in Daly City, California, USA

2018

SMWCon Fall 2018 – 12 to 14 December 2018 in Regensburg, Germany
EMWCon Spring 2018 – March 21-23, 2018 in Houston, Texas, USA

2017

SMWCon Fall 2017 – 4 to 6 October 2017 in Rotterdam, Netherlands
EMWCon Spring 2017 – March 8-10, 2017 in McLean, Virginia, USA

2016

SMWCon Fall 2016 – 28 to 30 September 2016 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
EMWCon Spring 2016 – May 25-27, 2016 in New York City, USA

2015

SMWCon Fall 2015 – 28 to 30 October 2015 in Barcelona, Spain
SMWCon Spring 2015 – 6 to 8 May 2015 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2014

SMWCon Fall 2014 – 1 to 3 October 2014 in Vienna, Austria
SMWCon Spring 2014 – 21 to 23 May 2014 in Montreal, Canada

2013

SMWCon Fall 2013 – 28 to 30 October 2013 in Berlin, Germany
SMWCon Spring 2013 – 20 to 22 March 2013 in New York, New York, USA

2012

SMWCon Fall 2012 – 24 to 26 October 2012 in Cologne, Germany
SMWCon Spring 2012 – 25 to 27 April 2012 in Carlsbad, California, USA

2011

SMWCon Fall 2011 – 21 to 23 September 2011 in Berlin, Germany
SMWCon Spring 2011 – 28 to 30 April 2011 in Washington, D.C, USA

2010

SMWCon Fall 2010 – 18 and 19 September 2010 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
SMWCon Spring 2010 – 22 and 23 May 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2009

SMW Camp – 7 and 8 November 2009 in Karlsruhe, Germany
SMW Meetup – 25 March 2009 in Stanford, California, USA

2008

SMW Users Meeting – 22 and 23 November 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Notes

↑ This event was named a "workshop" due to policy at NASA, who hosted it; nonetheless, it had the standard conference structure.