The
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference
, commonly abbreviated as
#MWCon
, is a twice-yearly event featuring talks, workshops and tutorials relating to the use and development of MediaWiki. The event has a special (though not exclusive) focus on the use of MediaWiki outside of Wikimedia sites. It is generally held in North America in the spring and Europe in the fall/autumn. It is co-organized by the
MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group
.
This conference addresses everybody interested in wikis and open knowledge, especially in MediaWiki, e.g. users, developers, consultants, business or government representatives, students, and researchers.
The conference aims to:
- inspire/onboard
new users,
- inform
on where and how MediaWiki is used,
- convey and consolidate
best practices,
- initiate/foster/integrate
application and development and
- strengthen the community
of stakeholders and its service portfolio.
The next #MWCon events will be:
Previous #MWCon events have been:
#MWCon began in 2024, and is the successor to two conferences:
EMWCon
, or the Enterprise MediaWiki Conference (2016-2023), which was held annually in North America, and
SMWCon
, or the Semantic MediaWiki Conference (2009-2023), which since 2016 was held annually in Europe. Both of those conferences covered MediaWiki more broadly than their name implies, so the renaming to #MWCon is to some extent simply a reflection of reality.
