La MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, printemps 2026 s'est tenue du 25 au 27 mars 2026, à la bibliothèque FamilySearch de Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference (MUDCon) is a three-day conference featuring discussions of topics related to the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies, non-profits, governments, organizations, and communities.
Détails de l'événement
- Dates : du 25 au 27 mars 2026
- Lieu : bibliothèque FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
Ce fut la première conférence des utilisateurs MediaWiki jamais organisée dans le fuseau des Rocheuses. Toutes les heures sont exprimées en heure locale des Rocheuses (soit UTC - 06:00).
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Thème central
We are honored to have as our keynote speaker Jon Morrey, manager of the Advanced Technology Research team at FamilySearch.
Programme
Toutes les conférences durent 30 minutes, y compris les questions, sauf indication contraire. Toutes les heures sont exprimées en heure locale des Rocheuses (soit UTC - 06:00).
| 1er jour de la conférence — mercredi 25 mars 2026 | ||
| 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM |
Accueil, présentations et logistique 🎥 Wiki de recherche de FamilySearch — Danielle Batson et Amber Larsen 🎥 Photos de famille et arbre généalogique à l'aide de MediaWiki+ — Rich Evans | |
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | ☕ | Pause |
| 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM |
🎥 Prédictions sur l'avenir de MediaWiki — Ike Hecht 🎥 Interface avec Wikidata pour le plaisir et le profit (15 minutes) — Yaron Koren 🎥 Utilisation de Wikibase pour suivre les instances de MediaWiki — James Hare | |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 🍴 | Déjeuner |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
🎥 🔗 Introducing NeoWiki: Modern structured data for MediaWiki — Jeroen De Dauw and Bernhard Krabina (en distanciel) 🎥 Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis — Jonathan Lee | |
| 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | ☕ | Pause |
| 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM |
🎥 ICANNWiki — Mark Datysgeld et Mark Hershberger 🎥 🔗 Introducing MixedVisibilityFiles — Daniel Scherzer 🎥 I wish MediaWiki supported structured template args (5 minutes) — Jonathan Lee | |
| 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Tour of the FamilySearch Library | |
| Conference Day 2 — Thursday, March 26, 2026 | ||
| 9:30 AM - 11:15 AM |
🎥 MediaWiki pour les paresseux — Ad Strack van Schijndel (en distanciel) 🎥 Wanda: your in-wiki genie — Sanjay Thiyagarajan (en distanciel) 🎥 How might AI tools change discoverability of your wiki? — Alex Stinson (en distanciel) | |
| 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | ☕ | Pause |
| 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
🎥 Keynote: AI at FamilySearch: Past, Present, and Future — Jon Morrey, FamilySearch (1 heure) | |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 🍴 | Déjeuner |
| 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM |
🎥 Developing modern MediaWiki extensions with AI — Jeffrey Wang 🎥 🔗 Reintroducing Canasta — Cindy Cicalese 🎥 Enterprise MediaWiki+ Administration at NASA using MEZA (15 minutes) — Rich Evans 🎥 🔗 MEZA — Greg Rundlett (en distanciel) | |
| 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM | ☕ | Pause |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
🎥 Federated Enterprise Search across multiple wikis using LLMs and MCP — Rich Evans 🎥 AI in wikis (Panel, 45 minutes) 🎥 I Wish MediaWiki Supported Structured Template Args 2: $ Strikes Back (15 minutes) - Megan Cutrofello | |
| 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | 🍴 | Conference dinner, Market Street Grill |
| Conference Day 3 — Friday, March 27, 2026 | ||
| 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM |
🎥 🔗 From Spreadsheets to Structured Data: Linking Datasets During Import — Liselot Roelen (en distanciel) 🎥 Open CSP 3.0 — Charlot Cobben (en distanciel) 🎥 The Catalogue: Collecting and Analysing Wikis as Part of the Web of Data — Daniel Dobriy (en distanciel) | |
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | ☕ | Pause and group photo |
| 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM |
🎥 Dr Strangebot, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the residential proxies — Giuseppe Lavagetto et Chris Danis (en distanciel) 🎥 Round table discussion: How can we improve CrawlerProtection? — Jeffrey Wang | |
| 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM | Create Camp Kick-Off | |
| 12:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Create Camp — Hackathon-style collaborative sessions (lunch served) | |
Activités officielles
Ensign Peak hike
The evening of Wednesday, March 25 included a hike to Ensign Peak to see a beautiful sunset view of the Salt Lake Valley. Sunset was at 7:46pm MDT.
Conference dinner
The conference dinner was at Market Street Grill on the evening of Thursday, March 26. It was included as part of everyone's paid conference ticket.
VIP guided tour
There was a free VIP guided tour of the library on Wednesday afternoon.
Genealogy research experience
The FamilySearch Library graciously offered their resources to help attendees find more information about their ancestry.
Sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors for making the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference 2026 possible!
Sponsors catégorie Or
Sponsors catégorie Argent
Sponsors catégorie Bronze
Options pour être sponsor
Sponsors for this conference are welcome; below are the standard sponsorship options.
If you are interested in sponsoring the conference, we thank you very much! Please contact Jeffrey Wang, the sponsorship chair, to get started.
| Sponsorship level | Bronze
($500/€500) |
Silver
($1,000/€1,000) |
Gold
($1,500/€1,500) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website recognition | ✔ Name, link & logo | ✔ Name, link & logo | ✔ Name, link & logo |
| Event recognition | — | ✔ Nom et logo visibles pendant les discussions et les pauses | ✔ Nom et logo visibles pendant les discussions et les pauses |
| Video recording recognition | — | ✔ Name and logo visible on all conference YouTube videos | ✔ Name and logo visible on all conference YouTube videos |
| Cobrand recognition | — | — | ✔ Name in event promotions (email, social media) |
| Banner placement | — | — | ✔ Display your banner in the event room |
| Speaking opportunity | — | — | ✔ Showcase your products/services during breaks |
| Registrations included | — | 1 full registration | 2 full registrations |
| Discounts | 15% off tickets | 20% off tickets | 25% off tickets |
Bourses
The MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group offered scholarships for in-person attendance. Depending on availability of funds and merit of the applicants, scholarships are awarded to a certain number of applicants. In-person scholarships cover the cost of a conference ticket. Scholarships must be applied for. Applications are reviewed by the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group's scholarships committee, which is appointed by the MWStake Board of Directors.
For more information, please see MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference/Scholarships.
Voir aussi
- MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference/FAQ