The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2023, or EMWCon Spring 2023, was held April 19-21 in Austin, Texas in the United States. EMWCons are three-day conferences 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 2023 was anyone who uses, or would like to learn more about, MediaWiki within organizations.
This was the 8th EMWCon. EMWCon began as a spinoff of the Semantic MediaWiki Conference, or SMWCon, which is an annual conference held each fall in Europe. EMWCon and SMWCon are both three-day conferences with similar topics of discussion, though EMWCon has a broader scope.
As in 2022, the conference was held in a hybrid manner. For those who could not attend in person, there was online/virtual capability that was intended to be as integrated into the conference as much as possible. All presentations were available on Hopin live and talks were accepted from remote speakers. There was no cost for online/virtual attendance. However, in-person attendance was encouraged!
Event details
- Dates: April 19-21, 2023
- Times: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM CDT
- Location: Hilton Garden Inn Austin Northwest/Arboretum
Participants
Informal participation sign up:
In-person
- Yaron Koren
- Bryan Hilderbrand
- Jeffrey Wang
- Ike Hecht (WikiTeq)
- Vincent Brooks (NASA/Cimarron)
- Dwan Humphrey (NASA/KBR)
- James Hare
- Brian Wolff (WikiTeq)
- Daniel Scherzer (WikiTeq)
- Rich Evans (NASA GRC-ATF)
- Cindy Cicalese (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Mat Nadrofsky (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Linh Nguyen (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Nick Gluzdov (Speed & Function)
- Add your name here
Online
- Gary Foster
- Alex Tanchoco
- Erin Nebres
- Musaddam Idriss
- Phil Keith
- Wolfgang Fahl
- Bernhard Krabina (KM-A)
- Simon Stier
- Charlot Cobben (Wikibase Solutions)
- Marijn van Wezel (Wikibase Solutions)
- Robis Koopmans (Wikibase Solutions)
- Eric-Jan van Kakerken (Wikibase Solutions)
- gBRETT miller (19 April only)
- Stephan Protsack (Speed & Function)
- Lexi McGillivray
- Thomas
- Greg Rundlett
- Jared Olson (USSF)
- Markus Glaser (Hallo Welt!)
- Megan Cutrofello
- Add your name here
Program
| Conference Day 1 - Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | ||
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 🎥 Welcome, Logistics, and Introductions - Bryan Hilderbrand
🎥 🔗 OpenSemanticLab and MwJson: Transcend wikitext to store and edit structured & linked data - Simon Stier | |
| 10:30 AM- 11:00 AM | ☕ | Break |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 🎥 🔗 Synchronizing your own MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki content with Wikidata - Wolfgang Fahl | |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 🍴 | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
🎥 Panel: MediaWiki Administration (60 minutes) - Panelists: Cindy Cicalese, Ryan Schmidt, Jeffrey Wang, Brian Wolff; moderator: Yaron Koren | |
| 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | ☕ | Break |
| 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
🎥 Sponsorship opportunities for Semantic MediaWiki (10 minutes) - Bernhard Krabina 🎥 The auth experiment - Stephan Protsack (15 minutes) 🎥 MediaWiki @ Microsoft - Jeffrey Wang (Microsoft) (25 minutes) 🎥 🔗 The JWTAuth Extension - Jeffrey Wang (MyWikis) (10 minutes) 🎥 🔗 Introduction to Enterprise MediaWiki - Daniel Scherzer A short presentation of PageProperties - Thomas Topway | |
| PageProperties presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_b_BCcSax1h1D-eTIeCvPsMBnuIA9pP7/view?usp=sharing (it will be available for a few days) |
| Conference Day 2 - Thursday, April 20, 2023 | ||
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
🎥 🔗 MVC in MediaWiki: How to utilize Semantic MediaWiki, ArrayFunctions and Scribunto to make your wiki Parsoid-compatible - Marijn van Wezel 🎥 🔗 Reasons not to use Wikibase (and reasons to do so) - James Hare | |
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | ☕ | Break |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
🎥 Intro to Generative AI and Generating Wiki Pages - Gunjan Bhattarai 🎥 🔗 Creating a question & answer chatbot to search wikis - Jeffrey Wang (MyWikis) 🎥 How to use GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to write code and unit tests - Jeffrey Wang (Microsoft) (15 minutes) Lightning talks: (15 minutes) 🎥 🔗 Demo: How to automate code & content creation with the OpenSemanticLab Python Package - Simon Stier 🎥 🔗 WikiSearch as a result format - Robis Koopmans (Wikibase Solutions) 🎥 PagePermissions extension and Backdrop extension - Yaron Koren | |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 🍴 | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 🎥 🔗 Fixing your wiki being slow - Brian Wolff
🎥 Panel: Wikis and AI (60 minutes) - Panelists: Lane Becker, Mat Nadrofsky, Jeffrey Wang; moderator: Yaron Koren | |
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | ☕ | Break |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 🎥 🔗 Wikis made by bots - Ike Hecht
🎥 🔗 For the price of 15 cups of coffee a day: thoughts on EMW sustainability - Yaron Koren | |
| 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | 🍴 | Conference dinner, Iron Cactus |
| Conference Day 3 - Friday, April 21, 2023 | ||
| 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Create Camp | |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Create Camp Closing Session (60 minutes) | |
Sponsorship
This conference is coordinated by the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group and the current sponsors of EMWCon are:
Premier
Contributor
Become a sponsor
If you are interested in sponsoring EMWCon 2023, please contact Ike Hecht, the conference sponsor chair.
Premier ($600)
- Your logo (large), link, and description in the sponsorship section of the conference website.
- Your name will be mentioned during the conference and your logo (large) will be visible during talks and conference breaks.
- Your name will be included in all upcoming announcements of the conference (e-mail, social media).
- You will have the opportunity to discuss selected topics or demonstrate your products/services or show your short video in breakout sessions during coffee breaks.
Contributor ($250)
- Your logo (small), link, and description in the sponsorship section of the conference website.
- Your name will be mentioned during the conference and your logo (small) will be visible during talks and conference breaks.