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ANN: EMWCon at HTC Large Conference Room Wed March 21, 9:10p


EMWCon
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When: 9:10 AM Wednesday March 21, 2018
Where: HTC Large Conference Room
The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2018, or EMWCon Spring 2018, will be held March 21-23 in Houston, TX. 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 2018 is anyone who uses, or would like to learn more about, MediaWiki within organizations.

This is the third EMWCon. 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, though EMWCon has a broader scope.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2018

Topics
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1. Welcome and Logistics
Mark Hershberger

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2. Structuring knowledge according to "Every Page is Page One (EPPO)"
Sabine Melnicki, Lex Sulzer

When using a wiki for knowledge transfer in a company, users do not want to start on a blank page: emptiness can be overwhelming and is not motivating. To provide help for working with the wiki, administrators look at business subjects and derive a certain pre-defined structure, translated into templates, forms, categories, properties, i.e. the ontology. This structure is closely tied to the content and purpose of the wiki. We will examine best practices for defining this structure for content writing in the wiki, based on the findings of Mark Baker in “Every Page is Page One (EPPO)“. 

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:EMWCon2018_WikiAhoi_Melnicki_EPPO.pdf
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3. Implementing EPPO on SMW
Lex Sulzer, Sabine Melnicki

"Create Camp" Reasoning

When promoting SMW for organizational knowledge management, a customer's power user…

    …needs a guide on how to start
    …when implementing a Knowledge Management Framework
    …based on the DSKMFCoreOntology.

"Create Camp" Content

    Goal "The need to know how to start"
    Reasoning "Facet-Driven Inside-Out-Bottom-Up"
    Effective attitudes
    Example domain
    Start with an instance!
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4. Introductions
Chris Koerner

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5. SimpleGov
Ad Strack van Schijndel

2 - 3:30 PM  
    Achieving a unified data model with Cargo and Page Forms - Yaron Koren (30 min)
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6. Achieving a unified data model with Cargo and Page Forms
Yaron Koren

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7. Toward a MediaWiki Roadmap
Cindy Cicalese

Cindy will give an update on the planning process for the future of MediaWiki.
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8. State of the MediaWiki community
Chris Koerner

The last few years have seen some dramatic changes in the landscape of the MediaWiki community. Initiatives from the Wikimedia Foundation, user groups like the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group, and individual contributors in organizations around the world have started to take notice - with more activity and involvement from all corners. What has happened recently? What challenges do our community face? What are we missing? Most importantly, what's next?

While no one person has all the answers, I'd like to make a good faith attempt to describe things as they are, and offer up topics for discussion at, and beyond, EMWCon on the state of the MediaWiki community.
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9. Lightning Talks - Wednesday


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10. MediaWiki vs. Confluence
Greg Rundlett

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11. Learning from Airtable
Yaron Koren

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12. Supported MediaWiki
Greg Rundlett

This talk will answer the questions: What do you do when your wiki takes off? Are there MediaWiki "distributions" backed by full-time, professional support and documentation?

In short: A review and exploration of the available options for businesses looking for MediaWiki support.

For example: With Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) like eQuality Technology now offering MediaWiki as a pre-built, fully maintained, configured, and extended service; what options are available for corporate IT managers to outsource the technology stack?

Additional topics: How do they compare? Where are the gaps or overlaps? What are the benefits for consultants, like more focus on training, integration and pooling development resources.

Is this a movement? What's in store for hosted MediaWiki?
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13. Enterprise Knowledge Management including SMW
Lex Sulzer

I like to argue that enterprise knowledge management should encompass all of an enterprise's resource silos and provide a single "Google-style" interface to its knowledge. This thought was announced on mwstake.org in August 2017.
    This said, SMW should provide the enterprise's pivotal knowledge management framework.
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14. Enterprise Managed Knowledge Capture
Anthony Mallia

Enterprise Engineering is about architecture and transformation
    Problem with existing tooling is that it is team oriented not enterprise oriented
    SMW development is fast enough to be able to build tools economically on demand
    Most of the prototypes we have built are aimed at IT Tooling (IT4IT)

        Security/Confidentiality
        Portfolio/Program/Project oversight
        Infrastructure configuration
        Enterprise Architecture relating to systems
        Health Informatics Platform 

    Example is knowledge collection of Controlled Unclassified Information in US Federal Agencies

        Questionnaires have a lifecycle and are issued to known users
        Rules control what a user can see and modify
        Status in the lifecycle of each questionnaire is visible

    Positioning SMW for Enterprise Engineering tool development
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15. Replacing Extensions
Yaron Koren

You need some feature for your wiki, and you look through the set of relevant extensions in MediaWiki, but none of them do quite what you're looking for. Or perhaps one does, but it seems way too complex for the task. Should you consider developing your own extension? Or at least helping with the development process? This talk covers some ideas on when to make something new and when to make do, with reference to specific experience trying to create alternatives for extensions including FlaggedRevs, Collection, VisualEditor and more.
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16. Securing MediaWiki Installation
Brian Wolff

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17. User Pages: The key to Enterprise Wikis
Bryan Hilderbrand

Enterprise Wikis have the power to establish user reputations within the organization, let's learn how and why.
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18. Implementing Service Structures with SMW
Lex Sulzer

Talk Reasoning

To give a current possible opinion about the service structure that we "SMWers" should implement.
Talk Content

    The service structure
    Our mission
    The reasoning behind our services
    How they relate to AI
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19. EMW and The IoT (Security and System Modeling)
Rich Evans, Tony Mallia

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20. What are the Enterprise MediaWiki Best Industry Practices?
Bryan Hilderbrand

A presentation of the Enterprise MediaWiki “Best Practices” I’ve learned so far through trial and error at my last 2 companies.
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21. MediaWiki: A Culture of Knowledge-Sharing
Mark Hershberger

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22. Enterprise MediaWiki tips and tricks
Ike Hecht

Make your wiki work! Tips and Tricks that WikiWorks has learned over a decade of supporting MediaWiki.
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23. Lightning Talks - Thursday


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24. MediaWiki and the European GDPR (datencockpit.at)
Sabine Melnicki

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25. MediaWiki vs. SharePoint
Tony Mallia

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26. Wiki Automation
Peter Woudsma

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27. NASA wikis: Increasing the Awesome
Daren Welsh

http://enterprisemediawiki.github.io/slides/Increasing_the_Awesome/
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28. Delivering ICT capability through a wiki policy
Ben Fletcher

The UK Ministry of Defence identified a number of issues with the defence manual for ICT which was the policy that all ICT delivered to defence should adhere to. The challenges faced were:

    How to keep policy at pace with ICT
    How to understand the impact of policy change to the business
    How to understand the impact business change to policy
    How to manage multiple owners of policy, guidance and direction

All these challenges pointed to a single weak link, our content management system. We had 90 PDFs, 2000 pages of information that was extremely difficult to understand collectively. Through careful analysis of our user needs, it was determined that MediaWiki was the right choice to address the majority of our challenges.

This talk discusses how we persuaded our chain of command that MediaWiki and SMW were the ideal CMS for our needs and how this is enabling us to deliver ICT at pace in line with evolving policy.
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29. Comprehensive Quality Management with Semantic MediaWiki
Michael Barylak

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30. WMF Strategy Process
Victoria Coleman

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31. Panel Discussion: MediaWiki Best Practices
Cindy Cicalese, Bryan Hilderbrand, Daren Welsh, Ben Fletcher; moderator: Chris Koerner

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Location
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HTC Large Conference Room
Houston Technology Center
410 Pierce Street
Houston, TX 77002

About the group
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