The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2017, or EMWCon Spring 2017,
will be held Wednesday to Friday, March 8-10, 2017, in McLean, VA, USA,
a suburb of Washington, DC. EMWCon Spring 2017 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. 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. Suggested topics for
talks include:
- Examples of use of MediaWiki in organizations
- Lessons learned and challenges in the use of MediaWiki and MediaWiki
extensions in organizations
- Gamification and other incentives for wiki contributions
- Wikitext patterns and wiki design patterns
- Wiki development frameworks
- MediaWiki extension usage and development
- New extensions, extension updates, and ideas for future extensions
This is the second EMWCon, after EMWCon Spring 2016 last year. EMWCon
began as a spinoff of the Semantic MediaWiki Conference, or SMWCon,
which is an annual conference, held in the fall in Europe. EMWCon and
SMWCon are not that different from one another: they are both three-day
events, and, despite EMWCon's broader scope, the overall topics of
discussion tend to be similar.
For more information about the conference, please visit the conference
wiki page at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2017.
EMWCon Spring 2017 will be located at MITRE, a not-for-profit
organization that manages Federally Funded Research and Development
Centers (FFRDCs) sponsored by the US federal government.