EMWCon Spring 2017

The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2017, or EMWCon Spring 2017, was held Wednesday to Friday, March 8-10, 2017, in McLean, Virginia, USA, a suburb of Washington, DC. EMWCon Spring 2017 was 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. There will be two days of talks followed by a one day Create Camp. The intended audience of EMWCon Spring 2017 is anyone who uses, or would like to learn more about, MediaWiki within organizations.

This was the second EMWCon, after the one in the spring of 2016. 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. EMWCon has a broader scope.

EMWCon Spring 2017 was located at MITRE, a not-for-profit organization that manages Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) sponsored by the US federal government.

Event details

• Dates: Wednesday, March 8 - Friday, March 10, 2017
• Times: 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
• Location: MITRE Corporation. MITRE 4, 7596 Colshire Drive McLean, VA 22102 (Directions)
• Hashtag: #EMWCon
• IRC: #enterprise-mediawiki ^connect
• Videos: YouTube playlist
• Etherpads: Archive
  • Day 1 - Day 2

Organizers

The organizers of EMWCon Spring 2017 are:

• General Chair: Cindy Cicalese
• Local Chair: Bernadette Clemente
• Registration Chair: Yaron Koren
• Program Chair: Chris Koerner
• Create Camp Chair: Mark Hershberger

For any issues, you can contact the organizers on the talk page, or email Cindy at [email protected].

Program

Conference Day 1 - Wednesday 8 March 2017 08:30 - 09:00   Doors open - Registration & Breakfast 09:00 - 10:30 Morning Session 1 Welcome and opening remarks - Cindy Cicalese (20 min) What does an enterprise wiki mean to you? - Chris Koerner (65 min) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 12:30 Morning Session 2 Making our interfaces smarter - Yaron Koren (30 min) Interesting challenges encountered at Vistaprint - Daniel Renfro (15 min) Federal Government Wiki Introductions (45 min) Intellipedia - Sean Dennehy NASA wikis - James Montalvo Statipedia - Peter Meyer 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (onsite) 14:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Session 1 Diplopedia - Tim Hayes/Bob Watts (45 min) Powerpedia - Tom O'Neill (45 min) 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 - 17:00 Afternoon Session 2 "Federal Government Use of MediaWiki" Panel (60 min) Moderator - Cindy Cicalese Diplopedia - Tim Hayes Intellipedia - Sean Dennehy NASA wikis - James Montalvo Powerpedia - Tom O'Neill Statipedia - Peter Meyer 17:00 End of Conference Day 18:00 - 21:30 Community Learning Night with Wikimedia DC

Conference Day 2 - Thursday 9 March 2017 08:30 - 09:00   Breakfast (onsite) 09:00 - 10:15 Morning Session 1 Victoria Coleman - CTO Wikimedia Foundation (10 min presentation and 20 minute Q&A) Enterprise Wikis in Support of Blast Injury Standards Recommendation - Bernadette Clemente (45 min) 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break 10:45 - 12:30 Morning Session 2 MediaWiki as a Software Documentation CMS - Juan Lara, Barry Grenon (20 min) Content is Architecture - Lex Sulzer (45 min) 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch (onsite) 13:30 - 15:30 Afternoon Session 1 Embracing Scribunto - Tobias Oetterer (40 min) Introducing SemanticScribunto Extension - Tobias Oetterer (15min) Authentication and Authorization in Enterprise Wikis - Cindy Cicalese (30 min) Upgrading to AuthManager - Gergő Tisza (45 min) 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 - 17:30 Afternoon Session 2 Synchronizing Wikis - Mark Hershberger (30 min) Enterprise Wiki Analytics - Bernadette Clemente (30 min) Building confidence in your wiki - Chris Koerner (30 min) 17:30 End of Conference Day 18:00 - 20:00 Conference dinner Barrel and Bushel

Create Camp - Friday 10 March 2017 08:30 - 09:00   Breakfast (onsite) 09:00 - 10:30 Morning Session 1 Lightning talks - 45 min Begin Create Camp after Lightning talks complete (~45 min) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 12:30 Create Camp Session 1 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (onsite) 14:00 - 15:30 Create Camp Session 2 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 - 17:30 Create Camp Session 3 17:30 End of EMWCon

Sign-up

Also, feel free to add your name to the informal registration signup, below:

1. Cindy Cicalese
2. Bernadette Clemente
3. Peter Meyer
4. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣
5. Yaron Koren
6. Lex
7. G. Brett Miller
8. Ckoerner (talk)
9. Jason Bock
10. Tom O'Neill
11. Raj Kumar Maurya
12. Alex Tanchoco
13. Nicholas Hoffman
14. Tina Tenbergen
15. Marcin Cieślak - looking for some nice area to stay - anyone planning to stay in D.C.?
16. Bryan Hilderbrand
17. Juan Lara
18. Barry Grenon
19. Tobias Oetterer
20. Jared Olson - NASA
21. Kris Field - NASA
22. James Montalvo
23. Bob Watts
24. Jay Crossler
25. Daniel Renfro, from Vistaprint
26. Gergő Tisza
27. Mike Egan - US Army Geospatial Center

Presentations

Talks

Some of the talks that will be presented include:

• Authentication and Authorization in Enterprise Wikis - Cindy Cicalese
• Enterprise Wiki Analytics - Bernadette Clemente
• Enterprise Wikis in Support of Blast Injury Standards Recommendation - Bernadette Clemente
• Making our interfaces smarter - Yaron Koren
• Building confidence in your wiki - Chris Koerner
• Content is Architecture — EMW as an ideal platform for implementing the principles of "Every Page is Page One" based on the "Three-Ontologies-Method" - Lex Sulzer
• MediaWiki as a Software Documentation CMS - Juan Lara, Barry Grenon
• Synchronizing Wikis - More progress has been made on MABS. I'll introduce it to those who haven't see it and update everyone on the progress. -☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣
• Upgrading to AuthManager - Gergő Tisza
• Interesting challenges encountered at Vistaprint — A few successes and a few challenges over the last 10 years — Daniel Renfro

Lightning Talks

To give a talk, or lightning talk, at EMWCon, just add the proposed title, a brief description and your name, below:

• Tracking historical invention on a wiki: the airplane and its industry -- Peter Meyer
• CommentStreams -- Cindy Cicalese
• how core developers make decisions and how to make sure you are represented -- Gergő Tisza
• Developer Wishlist results - Ckoerner
• how to make mediawiki.org better -- Gergő
• a handful of things we do with our mediawiki -- Tina (happy to step back if we run out of time)
• OAuth -- Gergő
• Cargo vs. Semantic MediaWiki: a quick and biased comparison -- Yaron
• The value of transparency - Alex Tanchoco
• Where do we go from here? - ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 15:37, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
• Performance optimization - Brian Wolff
• meza - James Montalvo

Create Camp Ideas

Technical

• Using Ansible to create and manage a wiki/wiki farm; some examples:
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/1881/
  • https://github.com/enterprisemediawiki/meza
  • Merging Ansible work from Mitre, LCC, & NASA
• A small but useful extension? Define a #page_formula parser function that renames a page based on a "formula", if any template field within that formula has its value changed. --Yaron
• Start open sourcing PonyDocs work
• Standard deployments vs user size
• Easier installation/maintenance
• Extension Programming Guide
  • Etherpad for Extension Best Practices
• Continue moving WikiApiary to labs
• Start integrating PingBack and WikiApiary

Extension requests

• Convert .doc, .xls, and .pdf to Wiki
• Image markup with layers
• Display user activity counts -> contributions/new pg
• Spell check

Non-Technical

• Continue conversation on MW best practices.
• Start drafting a helpful doc for the CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation on what MediaWiki users are concerned with and need
• SMW modeling exercise

Local accommodations

See EMWCon_Spring_2017/Hotels for a list of suggested hotels in the area.

Grants for Wikimedians

Travel & Participation Support funds Wikimedians to actively represent Wikimedia at events around the world. Learn about the Travel & Participation Support program

Social activities

Tuesday, March 7

Attendees who arrive on Tuesday may meet informally for dinner. Email Cindy Cicalese for more information.

Wednesday, March 8

On the first night of the event, Wikimedia DC, MITRE Corporation, and the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group will be partnering to host an edit-a-thon around the theme "re-linking the government" at The George Washington University.

Thursday, March 9

On the second night of the event, join us at Barrel and Bushel, one metro stop and a short 6 minute walk away in Tysons Corner Center, for an evening of food and drink.

Training?

If you are interested in training, please see Training Signup.

Cargo Training

http://emwcon2017.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page