EMWCon Spring 2021

EMWCon Spring 2021 was an online-only event held on April 20-22, 2021. The event occurred between 9 AM and 5 PM, Eastern Time, on each of those three days. 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. Attendance will be free.

This event consisted of talks, demos, panels, lightning talks, and a one-day hackathon/"Create Camp".

Platform

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic (hopefully on its way out!), this conference took place virtually again this year. Attendees needed to create a free account on Hopin. Please use the following link to sign-up and attend:

• https://hopin.com/events/emwcon-spring-2021

The main platform will be Hopin, but the conference Main Stage will be simulcasted on YouTube:

• Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5BZTyzbx_4
• Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh6RsLcfiR4

Keynote

We are honored to have as our keynote speaker Håkon Wium Lie, who is best known as the main creator of CSS. He was also the longtime CTO of the company Opera (makers of the Opera browser), and most recently has helped to run the MediaWiki-based website Rettspraksis.no.

Talks

All talks are 30 minutes long including questions unless stated otherwise. Times listed are EDT (UTC -4).

Video link: 🎥

Presentation link: 🔗

Conference Day 1 - Tuesday, April 20, 2021
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM		🎥 Welcome, Logistics, and Introductions - Bryan Hilderbrand 🎥 Keynote: CSS, public access to information, & producing books from the web - Håkon Wium Lie 🎥 🔗 Page Forms: State of the Extension - Yaron Koren
10:30 AM- 11:00 AM	☕	Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM		🎥 🔗 Wikipush Toolkit Application in the ConfIDent Project - Wolfgang Fahl 🎥 🔗 Confluence-to-MediaWiki migration script - Robert Vogel 🎥 🔗 WSForm current status and intro to WSPageSync - Charlot Cobben
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM	🍴	Break
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM		🎥 🔗 Deploying MediaWiki to Kubernetes 101 - Jeena Huneidi 🎥 Panel: Wikimedia & Enterprise MediaWiki (60 minutes) - Yaron Koren (Moderator), Cindy Cicalese, Markus Glaser, Mark Hershberger, Brian Wolff
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM	☕	Break
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM		🎥 🔗 MWStake MediaWiki Manager: Initiatives to facilitate managing MediaWiki deployments (Code Base) - Lex Sulzer 🎥 🔗 Editing your wiki with Python is easier than you think - Megan Cutrofello 🎥 🔗 USSF Tactical Doctrine Wiki - Jared Olson

Conference Day 2 - Wednesday, April 21, 2021
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM		🎥 🔗 Faceted search using Elasticsearch and SMW - Robis Koopmans 🎥 🔗 A MediaWiki based content services platform - Ad Strack van Schijndel 🎥 🔗 Squaring the circle: How Wikimedia Enterprise is offering commercial SLAs the wiki-way (60 minutes) (Commons video) - Lane Becker, Ryan Brounley, & Liam Wyatt
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM	☕	Break
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM		🎥 Panel: MediaWiki Consulting (60 minutes) - Richard Heigl (Moderator), Jeroen De Dauw, Alexander Gesinn, Ike Hecht, Ad Strack van Schijndel, Lex Sulzer Lightning Talks (30 minutes): 🎥 Naming your extensions - Yaron Koren 🎥 Idea "MECE Manager" - Lex Sulzer Lighting Talk #3 - Speaker
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM	🍴	Break
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM		🎥 🔗 Breaking up the Monolith: The MediaWiki Expedition - Daniel Kinzler & Petr Pchelko 🎥 🔗 Enterprise Data Map POC : With Semantic MediaWiki and GraphViz (15 minutes) - Alex Tanchoco
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM		Create Camp Opening Session (45 minutes)
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM		Create Camp: Create Camp 1 - Leader Create Camp 2 - Leader Create Camp 3 - Leader

Conference Day 3 - Thursday, April 22, 2021
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM		Create Camp: Create Camp 4 - Leader Create Camp 5 - Leader Create Camp 6 - Leader
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM		Create Camp Closing Session (60 minutes)

Signup

Please add your name below if you are planning to attend.

1. Bryan Hilderbrand
2. Yaron Koren
3. Ike Hecht (WikiTeq)
4. Patrick Marvin (WikiTeq)
5. Rich Evans
6. Tom O'Neill
7. Bawolff
8. Julien Tremblay McLellan
9. Duncan Crane
10. Megan Cutrofello
11. Alex Tanchoco
12. Richard Heigl
13. Alexander Gesinn (gesinn.it)
14. Cindy Cicalese
15. Ad Strack van Schijndel
16. Jared Olson
17. Gary Foster
18. Lex Sulzer
19. Wolfgang Fahl
20. Gretchen Wentzell Lowerison
21. Jeroen De Dauw, SMW maintainer (Professional.Wiki)
22. Karsten Hoffmeyer, SMW maintainer (Professional.Wiki)
23. s_pokras (Stan - Wikidelphia.org & OtherNetworks.org)
24. Geertivp (talk)
25. Markus Glaser (MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group, BlueSpice)
26. Eric-Jan van Kakerken (Wikibase Solutions)
27. Charlot Cobben (Charlot @ Wikibase Solutions)
28. Robert Sterbal
29. Ray Frye
30. MyWikis-JeffreyWang
31. Phil Keith
32. Liam Wyatt (Wikimedia Enterprise)
33. Trae Watson
34. Ed Jamer
35. Barry Grenon
36. Nathan James
37. Vincent Brooks
38. Philippos Papadopoulos (Open Risk Manual, Open Risk Data)
39. Michael Lowerison
40. Harry Cadby
41. Rich Simon
42. Marijn van Wezel
43. Brian Rom
44. Robert Vogel
45. Jan H. Höffler
46. Charles Smith
47. Joris Dirks (ArchiXL)
48. Dror S
49. Igor Absorto
50. Bernhard Krabina
51. Ross.Patrick

Lightning Talks

To give a lightning talk at EMWCon, please add its title below.

• Title - Speaker
• Naming your extensions - Yaron Koren
• Idea "MECE Manager" - Lex Sulzer

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:

1. Improving Cargo's "page values" display
2. WikiPush, WikiSon, pyWikiCMS applications
3. MediaWiki Manager: Initiatives to facilitate managing MediaWiki deployments
   • For everyone: discuss
     1. MWM Use Cases
     2. MWStakeServices/ExtensionsCatalog (as part of MWStakeServices)
     3. Attempt to organize MW community's concerns in a MECE way
   • Developers: discuss aspects on the infrastructure and CLI abstraction level, see GitHub Repo Tag "CreateCampEMWCon2021"
4. Creating packages and installing them - creating various packages (collections of wiki pages) holding data structures, for use with specific use cases, to be installed with Page Exchange or anything else
5. Creating diagrams using Mermaid and Semantic MediaWiki
   • Request from Gary Foster

Sponsors

The current sponsors of EMWCon are:

• 
  WikiTeq
• 
  WikiWorks

To become a sponsor, please contact Ike Hecht.