MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024, Announcement

1. #MWCon Fall 2024
Announcement

2. SMWCon + EMWCon = MWCon
Only about SMW? Only for enterprises?

3. Is it SMW vs. Wikibase vs. Cargo vs. VisualData?
Or Canasta vs. Meza vs. OpenCPS?

4. The real battle!

5. MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference
Spring Edition:
• American continent
(mostly North America, but who knows?)
Fall Edition:
• European continent
(mostly EU, but who knows?)
Summer/Winter Edition?
• Asia? Africa? Oceania?
Hybrid or not?
• Up to the organizer. At least some kind of live-
streaming/recording should be organized.
#MWCon

6. MediaWiki Stakeholder‘s group
• MWStake.org
“MediaWiki user group consisting of
MediaWiki developers, system
administrators, users, consultants, and
hosting providers who cooperate in
order to improve the software and
advocate the needs of MediaWiki users
outside the Wikimedia Foundation
(WMF) and its projects.”
• Backing up MWCons legally
and financially

7. How to co-organize?
• Reach out to MWStake to volunteer helping organizing
• Especially needed: Local chair
• Also needed: a lot of other chairs
You can help!
If you want to attend a next MWCon, you can do something about it!
Geoffrey Fairchild, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

8. #MWCon Fall 2024
• #MWCon Fall 2024 will be held in Vienna, Austria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Gasometers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_History_Wiki
• Tentative date: November 4-6
will be finally confirmed by end of April
• Help us out with organizing it!
reach out to Bernhard Krabina
• Support us with your sponsorship!
Photo: Arne Müseler / arne-mueseler.com / CC-BY-SA-3.0

9. KM-A Knowledge Management Associates | Gersthofer Straße 162 | A-1180 Wien | office@km-a.net | www.km-a.net 9
▪ Knowledge Management
▪ Wiki consulting, Semantic MediaWiki
▪ Open Government, Open Data
Bernhard Krabina
+43 676 5103593
Bernhard.krabina@km-a.net
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