Chris Koerner
<p>The last few years have seen some dramatic changes in the landscape of the MediaWiki community. Initiatives from the Wikimedia Foundation, user groups like the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group, and individual contributors in organizations around the world have started to take notice - with more activity and involvement from all corners. What has happened recently? What challenges do our community face? What are we missing? Most importantly, what's next?
</p><p>While no one person has all the answers, I'd like to make a good faith attempt to describe things as they are, and offer up topics for discussion at, and beyond, EMWCon on the state of the MediaWiki community.
</p><p>The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2018, or EMWCon Spring 2018, will be held March 21-23 in Houston, TX. EMWCon is a three-day conference featuring discussions of topics related to "Enterprise MediaWiki", i.e. the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies, non-profits, governments, and other organizations. The intended audience of EMWCon Spring 2018 is anyone who uses, or would like to learn more about, MediaWiki within organizations.
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This is the third EMWCon. EMWCon began as a spinoff of the Semantic MediaWiki Conference, or SMWCon, which is an annual conference held each fall in Europe. EMWCon and SMWCon are both three-day conferences with similar topics of discussion, though EMWCon has a broader scope.
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