MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025

	MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025
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	Workshop Details
Location:	Sandusky, Ohio, United States
	NASA Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility
Start:	14 May 2025 (with an optional half day on May 13)
Finish:	16 May 2025
General Chair:	Cindy Cicalese
Program Chair:	Yaron Koren
Registration Chair:	Bryan Hilderbrand
Local Chair:	Jeffrey Wang
Sponsorship Chair:	Ike Hecht
Advertising Chair:	Bernhard Krabina
Finance Chair	Eric-Jan van Kakerken
Audience:	Administrators, Business, Academia, Developers, Community, MediaWiki Users
Previous conference: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024	Next conference: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2025

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The MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop , Spring 2025 was held from May 14-16, 2025 in Sandusky, Ohio, United States at the NASA Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility with an additional, optional half-day pre-workshop session on May 13 split into two parts: a tutorial for MediaWiki beginners, and a hackathon-style "Create Camp" for experienced users.

The MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop is a three-day workshop featuring discussions of topics related to the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies, non-profits, governments, organizations, and communities.

The workshop was organized by the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group in partnership with NASA, with the help of its sponsors and partners .

For more information, please visit the official workshop wiki.

Program

Wednesday, May 14

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM:

"Welcome and opening remarks", Cindy Cicalese, Rich Evans, ATF Director David L. Stringer & ATF Deputy Director Dave E. Taylor (30 minutes) (video)
"Making your wiki Parsoid-compatible with ArrayFunctions", Marijn van Wezel & Jimmy van Delft (30 minutes, remote) (video, slides)
"New extension SlotWeaver", Charlot Cobben (20 minutes, remote) (video, slides)
"Updates from the Semantic MediaWiki community", Bernhard Krabina (10 minutes, remote) (video, slides)

10:30 - 11:00 AM: Coffee break

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM:

Keynote: "Low-Entropy Knowledge Management", James Montalvo (60 minutes) (video, slides)
"Dealing with AI web crawlers at the WMF", Giuseppe Lavagetto (15 minutes, remote) (video)
"Creating an extension to defend against AI crawler bots", Jeffrey Wang (15 minutes) (video, slides)

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM:

"Quality Work Instructions at NASA using MediaWiki", Rich Evans, NASA GRC-ATF (30 minutes) (video, slides)
"Distributed Knowledge Management Systems across NASA's Rocket Propulsion Test Portfolio", Aaron Head, NASA RPT/Stennis (30 minutes) (video, slides)
"'Recommended revisions', present and future", Yaron Koren (30 minutes) (video, slides)

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Coffee break

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Short talks and lightning talks

"Automating wiki tasks with ChatGPT", Tina Tenbergen (remote) (video, slides)
"Wikipedia Enterprise Technical Overview", Haroon Shaikh (remote) (video, slides)
"Vibecoding a MediaWiki extension", Jeffrey Wang (video, slides)
"Your rights as a MediaWiki user", Mark Hershberger (video)
"Managing the GRC Analytical Sciences Group Labs using the ATF Wiki", Laura Wilson, NASA GRC (video, slides)
"The case for a return to mildly dynamic websites", Rich Evans (video, slides)
"The first MediaWiki edit from Space - How NASA uses wikis to train Astronauts in space for EVAs", Rich Evans (video, slides)

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM: NASA ATF Tour (in-person attendees only)

Thursday, May 15

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM:

"From Hooks to Events: evolving MediaWiki's extension interfaces", Daniel Kinzler (60 minutes, remote) (video, slides)
"WikiStax - an introduction", Gary Foster (10 minutes, remote) (video, slides)
"Introducing: Tech Partnerships @ Wikimedia Foundation", Liam Wyatt & Nicholas Perry (15 minutes, remote) (video, slides)

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Coffee break

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM:

"Juggel/MediaWiki as a GRC platform", Ad Strack van Schijndel (30 minutes, remote) (video)
"State of Canasta - Spring 2025", Jeffrey Wang (30 minutes) (video, slides)
"Fuzzing the MediaWiki REST API", Daniel Scherzer (30 minutes) (video, slides)

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch

1:30 PM - 3 PM:

"Ballotpedia and MediaWiki", Matt Latourelle & Joseph Sanchez (30 minutes) (video, slides)
"Collaborative Knowledge Creation: Lessons from Open Source Communities", Ike Hecht (30 minutes) (video, slides)
"Handling Database Updates", Daniel Scherzer (30 minutes) (video, slides)

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Coffee break

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM:

"'argmap' and 'iargmap': Avoid Extension:Loops in new and exciting ways", Megan Cutrofello (30 minutes) (video, slides)
"The Future of Knowledge Management: Trends and Predictions", Ike Hecht (30 minutes) (video, slides)
"Fixing Wikimedia Commons", Yaron Koren (30 minutes) (video, slides)

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM: Workshop dinner at Berry's on Main in Norwalk, Ohio.

Friday, May 16

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM: All-day Create Camp + hackathon

Sponsorship

Transportation and Video Conferences

Event transportation and video conferencing is sponsored in-kind by MyWikis.

MyWikis