MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2025/Call for Contributions
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Hello MediaWiki maintainers, software developers, consultants, researchers!
Call for Contributions[edit]
We are looking for use cases and best practices that provide insight in issues like:
- How does the use of MediaWiki change the way we share knowledge
- How can GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) benefit from MediaWiki
- How did you use MediaWiki in our organizational/academic/government/enterprise setting?
- What are the best ways to run MediaWiki, what extensions did you use?
- How can we best introduce newcomers to MediaWiki?
- How can we use linked data/Semantic Web to enhance knowledge management?
- What are the benefits of using Semantic MediaWiki, Wikibase or Semantic Wikibase extensions?
Your experience is valuable for all of us! So please share and propose a talk, tutorial or other contribution until (extended deadline) September 15.
Hit the button below to propose a contribution.
Current proposals[edit]
| Session | Description | Speaker | Type | Duration | Start |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BITV and MediaWiki | An experience report of the Hallo Welt / BlueSpice team, about our efforts to prepare the BlueSpice MediaWiki Distribution for the BITV test. | Robert Vogel | Talk | 25 | 30 October 2025 11:30:00 |
| A knowledge base for the Federal Ministry of Innovation, Mobility and Infrastructure | The Service Office (central contact point) of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Innovation, Mobility and Infrastructure (BMIMI) is using MediaWiki as a knowledge base. | Bernhard Krabina | Talk | 20 | 29 October 2025 09:30:00 |
| Bucket: a lightweight data-management extension | Discussing the use cases, design choices and performance optimizations behind Bucket, a brand new data-management extension | Jonathan Lee | Talk | 30 | 28 October 2025 15:50:00 |
| Connecting MediaWiki to Chats - With and without AI | Introduction to new extensions and components that allow integration of MediaWiki with external chat tools like MS Teams and Slack, as well as AI/RAG services. | Robert Vogel | Talk | 25 | 28 October 2025 15:00:00 |
| ContactManager Overview | ContactManager aims to be a "knowledge-webmail" entirely based on MediaWiki and VisualData, through which to store, catalogue and organize email correspondence of multiple mailboxes, with automatic import and bulk-send of email to categories of contacts. | Thomas Topway | Talk | 30 | 29 October 2025 14:00:00 |
| Content management system (CMS) | Creating a content management system in (semantic) MediaWiki | Charlot Cobben | Talk | 20 | 29 October 2025 13:30:00 |
| Create a knowledge base with Open CSP tutorial | A very quick and easy to follow tutorial on how to create a Knowledge Base with Open CSP | Charlot Cobben | Tutorial | 30 | 28 October 2025 10:00:00 |
| Creating and maintaining a data model for Wikibases | This talk will be about developing, uploading and maintaining a data model for research data in Wikibases. | Lucia Sohmen | Talk | 20 | 29 October 2025 11:40:00 |
| Day 1 Keynote | Keynote by Prof Dr Sahar Vahdati (45 mins). Q&A (15 mins). | Talk | 60 | 28 October 2025 13:30:00 | |
| Day 1 Start | Session | 0 | 28 October 2025 10:00:00 | ||
| Day 1 Welcome | Welcome by the Conference General Chair (10 mins).
Welcome by Prof Dr Maria-Esther Vidal, Head of Scientific Data Management at TIB (10 mins). Welcome by the Conference Program Chair (10 mins). | Lozana Rossenova Tim Wittenborg Prof Dr Maria-Esther Vidal | Session | 30 | 28 October 2025 13:00:00 |
| Day 2 Keynote | Wikibase, Federation and the Future – keynote by Tom Arrow (Wikimedia Germany) (45 mins). Q&A (15 mins). | Talk | 60 | 29 October 2025 16:30:00 | |
| Day 2 Start | Session | 0 | 29 October 2025 09:30:00 | ||
| Day 3 Social Program | We offer two social activities in the final afternoon of the conference:
1. Guided tour of the Ihme Zentrum – an architectural and historical landmark of the post-WWII development of the city of Hannover. 2. Guided tour of the TIB archives and collections - founded in 1959 to collect scientific information in a central location and make it available to science and industry in Germany. | Session | 120 | 30 October 2025 14:00:00 | |
| Day 3 Start | Session | 0 | 30 October 2025 09:30:00 | ||
| Document Management with WikiSearch | A demo‐driven talk showing how Wikibase DMS makes document management fast, secure, and intuitive. Learn how metadata, search & filter facets, previews, version control, and ISO-27001 compliance work together so that you can reliably locate any document in three clicks. | Jimmy van Delft | Lightning talk | 10 | 29 October 2025 13:50:00 |
| ECHOLOT - a game changer for the MediaWiki community | The Horizon Europe project ECHOLOT (European Cultural Heritage Optimized Linked Open Tools) will be funded under the call "Leverage the digital transition for competitive European cultural and creative industries" The talk will reveal what can become a game changer for the third party MediaWiki users, especially in the cultural heritage sector. | Bernhard Krabina Lozana Rossenova | Talk | 20 | 29 October 2025 11:00:00 |
| Enhance Your Wikibase With Extensions | Discover the open-source Wikibase extensions that you can use to enhance your Wikibase. | Jeroen De Dauw | Talk | 30 | 28 October 2025 17:00:00 |
| From Citizen Science to FAIRification: Wikibase Ecosystems for GLAM and Metadata Catalogues | From Irish Ogham stones to software registries, this talk highlights how Wikibase enables community participation, semantic modelling, and FAIR data practices across GLAM and Metadata Catalogues. Real-world use cases illustrate how Wikibase instances interconnect as sustainable hubs in an interdisciplinary knowledge ecosystem. | Florian Thiery | Talk | 20 | 29 October 2025 10:10:00 |
| From Triples to Text: LLM(RAG)-Based Approach to Querying Wikibase | Search wiki content with natural language using Retrieval augmented generation. An implementation with llamaIndex connected to Wikibase content and mediawiki articles. | Kolja Bailly | Talk | 30 | 29 October 2025 15:00:00 |
| Image Search with Embedding Models using ANTELOPE | Showcase: Search and categorize Images in Mediawiki using the ANTELOPE docker service | Kolja Bailly | Talk | 15 | |
| Let AI access your wiki with MCP | Learn how you can use the MediaWiki MCP Server to let LLMs interact with your MediaWiki | Jeroen De Dauw | Talk | 20 | 29 October 2025 15:30:00 |
| Mediawiki as Link Shortening Database | We explore the use of a wiki page combined with a barebones MediaWiki extension for community management of "short links"/"go links" | Audiodude | Lightning talk | 15 | 30 October 2025 10:15:00 |
| New in FlexForm 2.6.0 | We've added some features for FlexForm especially for really large wikis | Charlot Cobben | Lightning talk | 15 | 28 October 2025 15:25:00 |
| NoGLAMorɚ | More diverse users and their experiences, needs and inputs need to start showing up in the products and services of Wikimedia and MediaWiki/Wikibase developers/hosts. Replyicating what were historic needs of traditional Wikipedians has shown to be not enough to support new users, prosumers of webs and services, as well as to drive frontend innovation and enabling more aspirations in the (use of) federation features. | Z. Blace | Lightning talk | 5 | |
| OpenResearch.org: A Semantic Wiki for Research Conferences, Data, and Discovery | OpenResearch.org is a Semantic MediaWiki–powered platform that turns scattered research-event information into structured, queryable knowledge. Built by and for the research community, it captures conferences, workshops, tracks, CFPs, program committees, proceedings, venues, and organizations with rich, linked data. This talk shows how we model scholarly events, reuse vocabularies, and expose data through templates, forms, and SPARQL-style queries. We demo common workflows (creating an event, importing CFPs, generating calendars), discuss quality control and bots, and show how others can integrate with ORCID, Wikidata, and external services. | Sören Auer | Talk Discussion | 30 | 29 October 2025 13:00:00 |
| Page Forms + Cargo tutorial | An introduction to two MediaWiki extensions, Page Forms and Cargo, and how they can work together; with an opportunity to ask questions and receive support. | Yaron Koren | Tutorial | 60 | 28 October 2025 10:30:00 |
| Recommended Revisions for all | A talk about the Recommended Revisions initiative, how it is currently used (including in Canasta and Springboard), and how it could be used in the future. | Yaron Koren | Talk | 30 | 28 October 2025 16:30:00 |
| Semantic MediaWiki: Maintenance Risks and Future Outlook | Risk analysis on using Semantic MediaWiki, and short discussion about the future of development. | Marijn van Wezel | Lightning talk | 10 | 30 October 2025 11:00:00 |
| The Mediawiki story from HZDR | This talk will present the current state how Mediawiki is used within Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (HZDR), a federal funded research centre. It will show which extensions are used, which are the most used features and how it in integrated into the infrastructure. | Thomas Gruber | Talk | 20 | 29 October 2025 09:50:00 |
| Three Clicks to Enriched Data: The SMW Adapter Approach | This talk showcases the SMW Adapter, a tool that enables users to import experimental data from various sources including eLabFTW, Excel spreadsheets, and other research documentation systems into Semantic MediaWiki. Using our three-step interface, researchers simply paste a URL or upload a file, and the adapter takes care of creating semantic pages with the right relationships. We'll demonstrate the plugin-based architecture behind it, show the transformation from semi-structured to semantic data, and explain how this approach enables SPARQL queries across what used to be completely separate research experiments. | Marc Hinterthaner | Talk | 15 | |
| Using MWStakeComponents in own extensions | This tutorial gives an introduction of the currently available MWStakeComponents and show how to use them in a MediaWiki extension | Robert Vogel | Tutorial | 25 | 28 October 2025 11:30:00 |
| Vibe coding is the future of MediaWiki extension development | Continuing my talk in May about vibe coding to show how new agent-mode tools like Cursor and Copilot transform AI-assisted coding, and why the MediaWiki community should adopt best practices for organizing extensions. | Jeffrey Wang | Talk | 30 | 29 October 2025 15:50:00 |
| Visualizing Semantic Data: A Comparative Look at KnowledgeGraph and SRF Graph | How do you best turn semantic data into graphs? This talk compares KnowledgeGraph (interactive, vis-network.js, with a visual designer) and the Graph result format from Semantic Result Formats (static, Graphviz-based). We will look at strengths, limitations, and when to use which approach. | Alexander Gesinn | Talk | 15 | 30 October 2025 09:30:00 |
| WSTextInsights | A very small extension that can be used to find parsoid incompatible parser functions | Charlot Cobben | Lightning talk | 10 | 28 October 2025 15:40:00 |
| Wiki AI Playgrounds | Idea for a Workflow that combines MediaWiki Playground and the MCP Server to a workflow with preview and proper approved transactions. | Wolfgang Fahl | Lightning talk | 10 | 30 October 2025 12:00:00 |
| Wikibase.cloud - Use-Cases, Analysis and Perspectives | A short overview over some wikibase.cloud use-cases and an open discussion on future analysis and perspectives. | Tim Wittenborg | Discussion | 20 | 30 October 2025 12:10:00 |
| Wikibase4Research | Learn how our Docker-based solution helps set up and manage research databases using MediaWiki, Wikibase, and their extensions through a configuration system. | Lukas Günther | Talk | 20 | 30 October 2025 11:10:00 |
| WissKomm Wiki | Last year, we presented the concept of a SciCom Wiki - FAIR knowledge infrastructure for educational content. Since then, we have tested the prototype and are ready to launch! | Tim Wittenborg | Talk Discussion | 20 | 29 October 2025 11:20:00 |
| wiki.gg's IMProved Main Page | How wiki.gg uses a modular framework to make main pages easy | RheingoldRiver | Talk | 30 | 30 October 2025 09:45:00 |
