EMWCon Spring 2019

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

Program

All talks are 30 minutes long including questions unless stated otherwise.

Conference Day 1 - Wednesday, April 3, 2019
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM		Doors open - Registration & Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM		Welcome to Genesys - Michael Katten (5 minutes) Introductions - Cindy Cicalese (25 minutes) Introduction to Enterprise MediaWiki - Yaron Koren (1 hour)
10:30 AM- 11:00 AM		Coffee break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM		Structured Authoring to Set Your Content Free - Barry Grenon and Ed Jamer Dokit Approach to Turn MediaWiki Into a Packaged Product to Create User Manuals - Clément Flipo General Electric's Approach to Putting Knowledge Into Context Using MediaWiki - Evita Hollis
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM		Lunch (on site)
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM		Page Forms: State of the Extension - Yaron Koren (15 minutes) Meza: Why and How - James Montalvo Release Automation - Mark Hershberger (15 minutes) The MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group (#mwstake): What It Is and Why You Should Join - Bryan Hilderbrand (15 minutes) Wikis and bias - Daren Welsh (15 minutes)
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM		Coffee break
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM		Nifty Semantic Structures That Do Stuff - Ike Hecht Using MediaWiki-CodeSniffer So You Don't Need to Care About Spaces and Other Coding Style Nitpicks - Brian Wolff How to Use MediaWiki's Newish Support for Content-Security-Policy (CSP) to Secure Your Wiki - Brian Wolff
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM		Conference dinner and bowling

Conference Day 2 - Thursday, April 4, 2019
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM		Breakfast (on site)
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM		Keynote: Wikidata and Beyond - Denny Vrandečić
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM		Coffee break
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM		Thoughts on MediaWiki's Role in Enterprise Knowledge Management - Lex Sulzer Get It Together: Fostering Collaborative Art Documentation Through MediaWiki - Martina Haidvogl and Mark Hellar Transitioning an Existing Wiki to Incorporate Structured Data - Cindy Cicalese
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM		Lunch (on site)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM		Using (Semantic) Mediawiki on an Enterprise Knowledge Management Platform: From Banking IT Governance to Smart City Hub Portals - Matteo Busanelli Document Control With Multiple Digital Signatures Using MediaWiki+Extensions - Rich Evans Finnish Institutional Wikifarm: What I Wish I Knew Before Starting - Niklas Laxström
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM		Coffee break
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM		Usage of Cargo with Lua on LoL Gamepedia - Megan Cutrofello (15 minutes) Update on Some Internal Government Wikis - Peter Meyer (15 minutes) Panel: Creating the International Space Station Wiki by Merging Topic Wikis (15 minutes) Panelists: Erik Biegert and Vincent Brooks Lightning Talks Upcoming changes to the MediaWiki parser - Gergő Tisza Wikimedia Movement Strategy 2030 - Gergő Tisza Wikimedia Audiences Perspectives - Gergő Tisza Wikimedia talk page consultation - Gergő Tisza Don't forget Admin Links! - Yaron Koren
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM		Coffee break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM		Panel: State of the MediaWiki Ecosystem Moderator: Daren Welsh Panelists: Cindy Cicalese, Product Manager, MediaWiki Platform, Wikimedia Foundation Tom Harriman, Senior Learning Project Manager, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Ike Hecht, Lead Project Manager, WikiTeq & WikiWorks Phil Keith, Master Scheduler, Atlas Copco Mafi-Trench Co. A discussion of where MediaWiki sits in the marketplace today and what challenges to adoption and growth it must overcome Panel questions & talking points
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM		Wikimedia Foundation reception

Conference Day 3 - Friday, April 5, 2019
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM		Breakfast (on site)
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM		Create Camp
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM		Lunch (on site)
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM		Create Camp (continued)

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.

2. Roadmap to MediaWiki as an enterprise platform What needs to be done to make MediaWIki more appealing to more enterprise users?
   1. 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?

   2. Outline a path to address each of these reasons
3. (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
4. Generate third-party feedback for the Talk page consultaion
5. Dockerizing MediaWiki Setup
6. There will be a MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group at 1pm. Everybody is welcome to attend if they are interested.
7. Discover how to change the default date display behavior in Gantt charts produced by Ext:Mermaid
8. How to create & install your first extension
9. Show the tasks in the job queue from a Special page, with an extension
10. Create tutorials for onboarding new users from an enterprise perspective
11. 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

• 
  dataspects
• 
  Dokit
• 
  eQuality Technology
• 
  WikiTeq
• 
  WikiWorks

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.