EMWCon Spring 2022/Program

All talks are 30 minutes long including questions unless stated otherwise. Times listed are CDT (UTC -5).

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Conference Day 1 - Wednesday, April 6, 2022
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Welcome, Logistics, and Introductions - Bryan Hilderbrand

Keynote: State of Wikimedia Enterprise in 2022 - Lane Becker

MediaWiki API testing: How it works and how it fits in a testing strategy - Markus Glaser

10:30 AM- 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM ISO 27001 for and with enterprise wikis - Ad Strack van Schijndel

Sharing generic functionality between extensions: First experiences with the MWStake 'MediaWiki Components' approach - Robert Vogel

Custom notifications using Semantic MediaWiki and server-side scripting - Lexi McGillivray

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM 🍴 Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Panel: Future of Enterprise MediaWiki (60 minutes) - moderator: Daren Welsh; panelists: Cindy Cicalese, Mark Hershberger, Yaron Koren, Daniel Robbins

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Break
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Use of Enterprise MediaWiki at Medtronic - Margaret Gainsley

Residency management system at Mass General Hospital - Emilio Madrigal

State of the PluggableAuth family - Cindy Cicalese

🔗 Handling external data in MediaWiki - Yaron Koren


Conference Day 2 - Thursday, April 7, 2022
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Content Services Platform - Viktor Schelling

Project Canasta updates - Jeffrey Wang

Changes to the configuration system in MediaWiki 1.38 - Daniel Kinzler

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Verifiable content in MediaWiki with hash chains - Markus Glaser

Lightning Talks (60 minutes):

1) "SemanticActions extension" - Daren Welsh

2) "Semantic Tasks extension" - Bernhard Krabina

3) "WikiSearchFront extension" - Robis Koopmans

4) "Future of semantic text editing" - Bernhard Krabina

5) "FlexForm (WSForm) Update and Documentation" - Charlot Cobben

🔗 Keywords to Semantics: MediaWiki and the History of Early American Landscape Design - Matthew Westerby

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 🍴 Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM 🔗 Introducing EMWFS - A File Folder and File Attachment project for MediaWiki - Rich Evans

🔗 MediaWiki packages - Ike Hecht

Handling internal data in MediaWiki - Megan Cutrofello

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Panel: Video Game Wikis (60 minutes) - moderator: Jeffrey Wang; panelists: Jessica Clifford (Gamepedia/Fandom), Megan Cutrofello (Leaguepedia), Kevin Payravi (Nookipedia), Jacqueline Wong (Tears of Themis Wiki, Dragalia Lost Wiki)
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM 🍴 Conference dinner, Saldivia's South American Grill​


Conference Day 3 - Friday, April 8, 2022
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Create Camp
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Create Camp Closing Session (60 minutes)