| MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2026
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| Conference details
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| Start: |
November 11, 2026
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| Finish: |
November 13, 2026
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| General Chair: |
Christian Erlinger
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| Local Chair: |
Simon Krek
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| Program Chair: |
Karsten Hoffmeyer
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| Financial Chair: |
Eric-Jan van Kakerken
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| Sponsorship Chair: |
Bernhard Krabina
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| Feed: |
RSS feed, Atom feed
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| Wikidata-ID: |
Q138863477
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Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia,
Jamova cesta 39 SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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The 6th MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference brings together developers, users, and organizations from the MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki community around the world.
November 11–13, 2026, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Conference audience and mission
The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference will be a three-day conference featuring discussions on the use of (Semantic) MediaWiki software within companies, non-profits, governments, organizations, and communities, including the Semantic MediaWiki community. If you use MediaWiki or are interested in it, we would love to see you attend.
This 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.
Learn how to "do" MediaWiki to take on your responsibilities for your organization's knowledge management.
Please also refer to the following pages for further details:
The Call for Contributions is now closed. If you still want to submit a late proposal, contact the Program Chair directly.
Program
Current as of October 9, 2026. Streaming will be available on YouTube.
Day 1 · Wednesday, 11 November 2026
Structured data and cultural heritage, building on wikis, wikis and their communities
09:4515 min
Welcome, practical information and an overview of the three days.
[read more]Modeling and editing structured data
10:0020 min
Modeling people across family, incarnation, and transmission networks while preserving uncertain identities, dates, relationships, emanations, and historical gaps through semantic data and graph visualization.
[read more]10:2015 min
This talk shows how EpiMedDat.net, a template-based MediaWiki for epidemic and disaster research, was migrated to Semantic MediaWiki with Python and OpenRefine, then linked to Wikibase FactGrid for comparable SPARQL and #ask queries.
[read more]13:0515 min
SW
Making entry for data into Wikibase easy, yet comprehensive, through custom forms, including support for qualifiers and direct integration of Wikidata entries
[read more]13:2015 min
GT
This lightning talk presents a technical pipeline for making digitised cultural heritage archives
Machine-readable and semantically queryable.
[read more]13:3525 min
Four days before the deadline, a 9-minute screen recording of my old trip wikis became a working Semantic MediaWiki built with an AI agent. We use it on our conference trip and report what held up and what broke.
[read more]Building on wikis
14:3525 min
KY
Building a private browser extension that relies on contributor-added structured data, with lessons from the design process and from starting a new MediaWiki wiki in 2026.
[read more]Wikis and their communities
16:2515 min
PeaceWiki explores whether Semantic MediaWiki can serve as an open, collaborative incubator connecting peacebuilders, organizations, projects, practices, and resources in ways that generate new relationships and initiatives for peace.
[read more]16:5510 min
A short review of the first day and announcements for the evening and the next day.
[read more]Socializing and connecting
Evening
Informal get-together
Time and venue to be announced.
Day 2 · Thursday, 12 November 2026
Deploying and securing MediaWiki, knowledge management and AI, developing MediaWiki together
09:3010 min
Announcements and an overview of the second day.
[read more]Deploying, extending and securing MediaWiki
09:4030 min
An update on Canasta, the containerized MediaWiki distribution, covering its CLI-driven approach to installation, upgrades, and maintenance across both Kubernetes and Docker Compose.
[read more]10:3515 min
LG
Searching for open access points to Wikibase data and how to lock them down in a robust and secure way
[read more]10:5515 min
D
InsertDocumentContent adds document import to VisualEditor, letting authorized users upload files, convert them to MediaWiki wikitext with Pandoc, and insert the result directly into the editor.
[read more]11:105 min
D
WikiDiagrams brings Mermaid diagrams to MediaWiki, with a VisualEditor tool offering live SVG preview and syntax validation, plus support for "mermaid" tags and parser functions in wikitext.
[read more]11:1525 min
Wicker is a wiki-based application builder that turns YAML specifications into deployed, upgradeable MediaWiki applications on Canasta, with automated setup of configuration, extensions, containers, and initial content.
[read more]Knowledge management and AI
11:4020 min
A talk about current trend of AI implementations withing MediaWiki
[read more]13:0045 min
VD SC
Vlado Dimovski, Simon Colnar
13:455 min
AV
A beginner’s perspective on five MediaWiki concepts that go beyond pages and editing, including structure, relationships, templates, categories, extensions, and knowledge reuse.
[read more]13:5020 min
AV
How structure, context, relationships, and consistency can turn stored wiki information into useful knowledge for people, developers, and AI systems.
[read more]14:1020 min
SM
A native MediaWiki integration synchronizes wiki content and Semantic MediaWiki properties with Microsoft Graph external connections, enabling discovery in Microsoft Search and Copilot plus integrated MediaWiki search.
[read more]14:305 min
SM
LLMBridge uses Google Gemini 2.5 Flash to analyze page images and generate keywords that improve content discoverability and help search systems better understand wiki pages.
[read more]14:355 min
Recent changes and improvements to the
Wanda MediaWiki extension, including creation and editing of pages.
[read more]15:1030 min
Live demos of AI agents working with your wiki and the MediaWiki MCP Server
[read more]15:4040 min
This discussion shares current lessons learned from use cases piloted and tested within the Horizon Europe-funded ECHOLOT project
[read more]Developing MediaWiki together
16:2530 min
Crawler bots have made running public wikis increasingly difficult. This talk looks beyond MediaWiki itself and shares practical techniques that have proven effective against abusive crawling.
[read more]16:5510 min
A short review of the second day and announcements for the evening and the next day.
[read more]Socializing and connecting
Evening
Conference dinner
Time and venue to be announced.
Day 3 · Friday, 13 November 2026
Developing MediaWiki together
09:305 min
Announcements and an overview of the third day.
[read more]Developing MediaWiki together
10:0540 min
Brooke VibberMediaWiki and MediaWiki-adjacent developer since 2001 How third-party MediaWiki users can work together on shared needs, reduce duplicated effort, and improve the usability baseline for MediaWiki beyond Wikimedia.
[read more]11:0045 min
AI coding agents make application development cheap and fast, but introduce new risks. This session examines the rules we rely on when shipping agent-written code and how consistently we actually follow them.
[read more]11:4545 min
Beginners tutorial about how to annotate data and do basic queries for this data.
[read more]12:3010 min
A short review of the three days, thanks and farewell.
[read more]Registration
You can attend online via a YouTube live stream. No tickets are required to attend online.
Local accommodations
There are no official conference hotels, but a large number of attendees have decided to stay at the Best Western Premier Hotel Slon in central Ljubljana.
Further hotels recommended by local hosts:
There are no negotiated hotel rates, so anyone who wants to stay here must book themselves. However, Jeffrey Wang is a registered travel agent who can book lower rates than those publicly available on the Best Western website; message him for details.
How to get to Ljubljana
How to get to Ljubljana:
The nearest airport is Jože Pučnik Ljubljana Airport, which is approximately 26 km / 16 miles away from Ljubljana. Other nearby airports are in Zagreb (Franjo Tuđman Airport), Trieste (Trieste Airport) and some others. Find out more here.
From Ljubljana Airport you can reach Ljubljana in 30 minutes by car (using a taxi, which costs you around 40-50 €) or use shuttles Goopti, Zup prevozi, Markun shuttle) which costs you around 15-40€, depending on the final location. Although Hotel Slon is in a pedestrian zone, guests can drive right up to our doors.
Special guide for Americans
If you are not too familiar with visiting Europe, the Fall 2025 conference local chair (himself an American) has written a guide for you!
Scholarships
Scholarships are provided for this conference. They cover the full cost of the conference ticket, but attendees are still responsible for transportation and lodging. For more information, including how to apply, please visit MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference: Scholarships. The application deadline is 30 September 2026.
For sponsorship opportunities, please contact bernhard.krabina
km-a.net.
KM-A
Knowledge Management consulting and training with 25 years of experience
MyWikis Europe
GDPR compliant (Semantic) MediaWiki hosting from the heart of Europe.
ArchiXL
Specialists in enterprise architecture, knowledge management, and semantics
Organization
ECHOLOT
Helping cultural heritage institutions enrich, connect and share their data. 
Funded by the European Union
Jožef Stefan Institute
The Jožef Stefan Institute is the leading Slovenian scientific research institute, covering a broad spectrum of basic and applied research.
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