Draft Schedule
All talks are 30 minutes long including questions unless stated otherwise. Times listed are MDT (UTC -6).
| Conference Day 1 — Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | ||
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
Welcome, Introductions, and Logistics FamilySearch — Danielle Batson and Amber Larsen ECHOLOT — Bernhard Krabina or Jeroen De Dauw (remote) | |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | ☕ | Break |
| 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM |
Predicting the future of MediaWiki — Ike Hecht Interfacing with Wikidata for fun and profit (15 minutes) — Yaron Koren Using Wikibase to track MediaWiki instances — James Hare | |
| 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 🍴 | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
Family photos and family tree using MediaWiki+ — Rich Evans The current state of DRUID infoboxes — Megan Cutrofello Closing the Loop — Daniel Scherzer | |
| 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | ☕ | Break |
| 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM |
ICANNWiki — Mark Datysgeld and Mark Hershberger Introducing MixedVisibilityFiles — Daniel Scherzer Lightning talks (5-min format)
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| Conference Day 2 — Thursday, March 26, 2026 | ||
| 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM |
MediaWiki for lazy people — Ad Strack van Schijndel (remote) Wanda: your in-wiki genie — Sanjay Thiyagarajan (remote) How might AI tools change discoverability of your wiki? — Alex Stinson (remote) MediaWiki on Kubernetes (15 minutes) — Ike Hecht | |
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | ☕ | Break |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
Keynote: FamilySearch — Jon Morrey, FamilySearch (1 hour) | |
| 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 🍴 | Lunch |
| 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 (remote) | |
| 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM | ☕ | Break |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
Federated Enterprise Search across multiple wikis using LLMs and MCP — Rich Evans AI in wikis (Panel, 60 minutes) | |
| 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | 🍴 | Conference dinner, Market Street Grill |
| Conference Day 3 — Friday, March 27, 2026 | ||
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
From Spreadsheets to Structured Data: Linking Datasets During Import — Liselot Roelen (remote) Open CSP 3.0 — Charlot Cobben (remote) The Catalogue: Collecting and Analysing Wikis as Part of the Web of Data — Daniel Dobriy (remote) | |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | ☕ | Break |
| 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM |
Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis — Jonathan Lee Dr Strangebot, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the residential proxies — Giuseppe Lavagetto (remote) 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) | |