EMWCon Spring 2016

The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2016, or EMWCon Spring 2016, will be held Wednesday to Friday, May 25-27, 2016, in New York City, USA. It will be 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. It is open to anyone who uses, or would like to learn more about, MediaWiki within organizations.

EMWCon Spring 2016 will be located at ITP, or the Interactive Telecommunications Program, a part of New York University.

This conference will be the first of its kind. It is a spinoff of the similarly-named Semantic MediaWiki Conference, or SMWCon. SMWCon is a twice-yearly conference, which occurs in the spring and fall; it will not be having a Spring 2016 event, in order to make room for this EMWCon. EMWCon and SMWCon are not that different from one another: they are both three-day events, and, despite its specific name, SMWCon tends to also have discussions that cover the use of enterprise MediaWiki as a whole.

Event details

• Dates: Wednesday, May 25 to Friday, May 27, 2016
• Times: 9 AM - 6 PM
• Location: Tisch School of the Arts. New York University. 721 Broadway (between Waverly and Washington Place), 4th Floor, New York, NY 10003
  • ITP is located on the 4th floor of 721 Broadway, New York, NY, near Union Square.
  • Access information: There is an elevator – After presenting photo ID, go to the 4th floor
• Subway:
  • 6
  • N, R
• Bus: M1, M2, M3, M5, M8, M14A, M14D, X1, X7, X9, X10, X12, X17, X27, X28
• Parking: Two commercial garages, one block north at 445 Broadway.
• Livestreaming: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/emwcon/
• Hashtag: [twitter.com/search?q=#EMWCon #EMWCon]

Organizers

The organizers of EMWCon Spring 2016 are:

• General chair: Yaron Koren
• Program chair: Peter Woudsma
• Local chair: Pharos

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

Program

Conference Day 1 - Wednesday 25 May 2016 08:30 - 09:00   Doors open - Registration & Breakfast 09:00 - 10:30 Morning Session 1 Opening of EMWCon - MediaWiki in the Enterprise Semantic Forms: What's New (Yaron Koren) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 12:30 Morning Session 2 Merits and Challenges of a Single Enterprise Wiki (G. Brett Miller) Simple ad hoc clones of any live SMW (Lex Sulzer) Enterprise Wiki Farms (Peter Woudsma) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (onsite) 14:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Session 1 Lightning Talks U.S. Federal Government MediaWikis (Peter B. Meyer) MediaWikiFarm (Nicolas Nallet and Seb35 (remotely)) Improving Enterprise Findability with SMW (Laurent Alquier) Semantic MediaWiki for everyone (Jason Bock) 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 - 17:30 Afternoon Session 2 Panel discussion: Towards a "MediaWiki Foundation" (Cindy Cicalese, Anja Ebersbach, Mark Hershberger, Chris Koerner, Yaron Koren) 17:30 End of Conference Day 18:00 - 22:00 "Community Learning Night - WikiWednesday" with Wikimedia NYC (at ITP)

Conference Day 2 - Thursday 26 May 2016 08:30 - 09:00   Breakfast (onsite) 09:00 - 10:30 Morning Session 1 The WMF: the Ongoing Saga (Pharos) Technical Collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation (Chris Koerner) Lightning Talks MediaWiki as part of a larger Enterprise Social Network (G. Brett Miller) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 12:30 Morning Session 2 Contracting with the GPL (Greg Rundlett) Anatomy of a Cyber Taxonomy Development Wiki (Cindy Cicalese) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (onsite) 14:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Session 1 Lightning Talks MDA for Wiki code generation (Peter Woudsma) Social Semantic (Jason Bock) CWIX Wiki for Interoperability Testing (Peter Woudsma) Making cool directories (Yaron Koren) Inside Wiki Sales (Angelika Müller) 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 - 17:30 Afternoon Session 2 Notifications in MediaWiki (Yaron Koren) Panel discussion (Yaron Koren, Pharos, Peter Woudsma) 17:30 End of Conference Day 18:30 - ? Conference dinner at Cacio e Pepe, 182 2nd Ave. between 12th and 13th St. The dinner is free for conference attendees, and $50 otherwise.

Create Camp - Friday 27 May 2016 08:30 - 09:00   Breakfast (onsite) 09:00 - 10:30 Morning Session 1 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 12:30 Morning Session 2 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (onsite) 14:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Session 1 Wrap Up and Closing Remarks 16:00 End of Create Camp

Registration

To register for this event, go here:

• EMWCon Spring 2016 at Eventbrite

Sign-up

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

1. Yaron Koren
2. Peter Woudsma
3. Rachel Garrett
4. Lex Sulzer
5. Cindy Cicalese
6. Pharos
7. Jason Bock
8. G. Brett Miller
9. Laurent Alquier
10. Greg Rundlett (aka freephile)
11. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 15:59, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
12. CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 15:16, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
13. Anja Ebersbach (talk) 12:29, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
14. Scott Wray
15. Angelika Müller
16. Kris Field
17. Peter B Meyer
18. Frank Taylor, aka LawExplorer
19. Jared Olson
20. Nicolas Nallet
21. Alexander Gesinn (gesinn.it GmbH & Co. KG) > if time allows...
22. Linda Fletcher
23. Noreen Whysel
24. Gjone1 (talk) 12:21, 27 May 2016 (UTC) Grey Jones
25. Jeremyb (talk) 03:07, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
26. Thomas Lowenhaupt
27. User:Dispenser (Thursday, Friday)

Accommodations

Those planning to attend SMWCon should consider reserving a room as soon as possible, since hotels in Manhattan can sometimes get filled up quickly. The following are all moderately-priced hotels and hostels in the area around ITP:

• The Bowery House, 220 Bowery (12 minute walk)
• The Jane Hotel, 113 Jane St. (25 minute walk, 21 minutes by subway)
• Riff Hotel Chelsea, 300 West 30th St. (35 minute walk, 16 minutes by subway)

Airbnb and the like are also possibilities, of course.

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.

Presentations

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

Talks

• "Semantic Forms: What's New" - an overview of recent changes and additions to the Semantic Forms extension (Yaron Koren)
• "Enterprise Wiki Farms" - Requirements for hosting and maintaining a set of wikis for different functions in a business environment (Peter Woudsma)
• "CWIX Wiki for Interoperability Testing" - An example of a verification and validation platform for interoperability testing (Peter Woudsma)
• "Semantic MediaWiki for everyone" - Helping an extended enterprise audience use Semantic MediaWiki for themselves (Jason Bock)
• "Choosing a single enterprise wiki instead of wiki farms" - Discussion of the value and challenges of a single Enterprise wiki instead of a Wiki Farm (G. Brett Miller)
• "Contracting with the GPL" - The legalese you're likely to encounter within the enterprise market (from the contract-management office) and how to reconcile that with the GPL-licensed software that the client is using in their business units. (Greg Rundlett)
• "The WMF: the Ongoing Saga" - catching up on all the drama at the Wikimedia Foundation, and it might mean for MediaWiki (Pharos)
• "Notifications in MediaWiki" - what's available and what's missing with user notifications in MediaWiki, including the Echo extension and an upcoming Google Summer of Code project (Yaron Koren)
• "Technical Collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation" - What the Technical Collaboration team does and how we support MediaWiki (Chris Koerner)
• “Inside Wiki Sales – the evolution of customer needs regarding enterprise wikis” – what customers ask for, how the requirements have changed and what future might hold for enterprise wikis (Angelika Müller)
• "Improving Enterprise Findability with Semantic MediaWiki" - (Some) lessons learned from 8 years of an Enterprise Knowledge Graph using SMW (Laurent Alquier) (Possibility for a talk if needed)

Lightning talks

• "Social Semantic" - Using Semantic MediaWiki for expanded profiles, article reviews and gamification (Jason Bock)
• "MediaWiki as part of larger Enterprise Social Network" - Using MediaWiki as one component of an enterprise social network (G. Brett Miller)
• " U.S. Federal government MediaWikis" (Peter B. Meyer)
• "MDA for Wiki code generation" - Building a Semantic MediaWiki website on the basis of model-driven architecture (Peter Woudsma)
• "MediaWikiFarm" extension : building a multi-versions MediaWiki farm with a Hierarchical configuration (Nicolas Nallet)

Create Camp Agenda

Project ideas

• HTML2Wiki (Greg)
• Semantic Forms Themes (Yaron)
• Mermaid (Lex)
• Make site faster (Mark)
• Management of extensions

Extension acceptance testing for MW Vagrant integration (Cindy/Lex)

Software for automatic tests includes: gherkin-language tests running on cucumber In a MediaWiki installation, see the /tests/ directory for some automated tests that now exist, in gherkin I believe Alternatives to gherkin include: (a) FitNesse ; (b) Selenium, but the discussion went toward gherkin Vagrant is a program that can launch the virtual machine inside which the test is run *.pp files are puppet files. It seems that these specify the configurations that vagrant will launch. For more, see vast existing documentation at Quality_Assurance/Browser_testing

Extension manager (Anja) & BPM setup for a extension cert. service (Grey)

Here we discuss an "extension manager" running on each MediaWiki that understands which extensions are installed AND knows how to upgrade them or add one from the available/certified sets available at mediwaki.org Extension interdependency management -- the extension manager software should know something about which ones are mutually compatible Notifications could arrive if there is a new upgrade -- maybe by Echo notifications Nice to have: extension manager can regress to previous setup if the installation of an upgrade or extension is judged to have gone badly WordPress has some or all of this, in its Plugins menu It would meet a general issue for enterprise wiki managers and wiki farms, which is to monitor what is in use, compatibility issues, what is up-to-date One's own installed extensions are on a list Possible new ones to install are to be shown on many lists by (a) popularity, (b) used on WMF sites, (c) category, e.g. calendar, Semantic, authentication, . . .

• Extension screenshots and working links to working examples on mw.org (Peter W.)
• Reification/provenance in SMW (Yingjie, BlaueBlüte)

main article: EMWCon Spring 2016/Provenance working group

Details

Goals Enable users to identify trustworthiness of data in SMW. Capture the Where–When–Who of data to facilitate (content) management. Enable analysis of history of sematic data—lineage. Track connection between “classes” and “instances” over time—has the definition of a “class” changed after it was instantiated? Use Facets Define provenance metadata along with, e.g., property values. View provenance data alongside page display, query results, etc. Use provenance data in queries, e.g. to restrict queries based on trustworthiness. Implementiation Ideas Below is an example of what a user-facing interface could look like.   Name Date of Birth Ref Last Edit John Doe John Doe March 12, 1978[old!] New York Times 2 days ago Jane Doe missing before January 1, 2015 For full details, see EMWCon Spring 2016/Provenance working group. Phabricator room (or something) to be created.

• Semantic Forms validation (Michael)