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MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Spring 2026
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By and for the third-party MediaWiki community
Conference Details
Location:
FamilySearch Library
35 N. West Temple St.
Salt Lake City
, Utah
USA
Start:
25 March 2026
Finish:
27 March 2026
General Chair:
Yaron Koren
Program Chair:
Cindy Cicalese
Registration Chair:
Bryan Hilderbrand
Local Chair:
Darris Williams
Sponsorship Chair:
Jeffrey Wang
Audience:
Administrators, Business, Academia, Developers, Community, MediaWiki Users
Previous conference:
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2025
Next conference:
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2026
The
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference
, Spring 2026
was held March 25-27, 2026, at the
FamilySearch Library
in
Salt Lake City
, Utah, USA.
The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference (MUDCon) is a three-day conference featuring discussions of topics related to the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies, non-profits, governments, organizations, and communities.
Event details
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FamilySearch Library
Dates:
March 25-27, 2026
Location:
FamilySearch Library
Salt Lake City
Utah
84150
This was the first ever
MediaWiki user conference
to be held in the
Mountain Time Zone
All times are in Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-06:00).
Registration
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Rates:
MediaWiki Stakeholders Group Members:
Freelancer: $200
Professional: $400
Early Bird Registration (ended on Feb 14th at 11:59pm PST):
Freelancer: $225
Professional: $425
Regular Registration:
Freelancer: $250
Professional: $450
Keynote
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We are honored to have as our keynote speaker
Jon Morrey
, manager of the Advanced Technology Research team at FamilySearch.
Program
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All talks are 30 minutes long including questions unless stated otherwise.
Times listed are in Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-06:00).
Conference Day 1 — Wednesday, March 25, 2026
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Welcome, Introductions, and Logistics
FamilySearch Research Wiki
— Danielle Batson and Amber Larsen
Family photos and family tree using MediaWiki+
Rich Evans
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Break
11:15 AM - 12:30 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
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Introducing NeoWiki: Modern structured data for MediaWiki
Jeroen De Dauw
and
Bernhard Krabina
(remote)
Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis
Jonathan Lee
Closing the Loop
— Daniel Scherzer
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Break
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
ICANNWiki
Mark Datysgeld
and
Mark Hershberger
Introducing MixedVisibilityFiles
— Daniel Scherzer
I wish MediaWiki supported structured template args
(5 min) —
Jonathan Lee
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tour of the FamilySearch Library
Conference Day 2 — Thursday, March 26, 2026
9:30 AM - 11:15 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
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Break
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Keynote:
AI at FamilySearch: Past, Present, and Future
Jon Morrey
, FamilySearch (1 hour)
12:30 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, 45 minutes)
I Wish MediaWiki Supported Structured Template Args 2: $ Strikes Back
(15 minutes) -
Megan Cutrofello
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Conference dinner, Market Street Grill
Conference Day 3 — Friday, March 27, 2026
9:30 AM - 11:00 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)
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Break
and group photo
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Dr Strangebot, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the residential proxies
Giuseppe Lavagetto
and
Chris Danis
(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)
Official activities
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Ensign Peak hike
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The evening of Wednesday, March 25 included a hike to
Ensign Peak
to see a beautiful sunset view of the Salt Lake Valley.
Sunset was at 7:46pm MDT.
Conference dinner
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The conference dinner was at Market Street Grill on the evening of Thursday, March 26.
It was included as part of everyone's paid conference ticket.
VIP guided tour
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There was a free VIP guided tour of the library on Wednesday afternoon.
Genealogy research experience
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The FamilySearch Library graciously offered their resources to help attendees find more information about their ancestry.
Sponsors
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Thank you to our sponsors for making the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference 2026 possible!
Gold sponsors
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WikiTeq
Silver sponsors
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Amethyst Collaborative Knowledge
MyWikis
WikiWorks
Bronze sponsors
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KMA Knowledge Management Academy
Sponsorship options
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Sponsors for this conference are welcome; below are the standard sponsorship options.
If you are interested in sponsoring the conference, we thank you very much! Please contact
Jeffrey Wang
, the sponsorship chair, to get started.
Sponsorship level
Bronze
($500/€500)
Silver
($1,000/€1,000)
Gold
($1,500/€1,500)
Website recognition
✔ Name, link & logo
✔ Name, link & logo
✔ Name, link & logo
Event recognition
✔ Name and logo visible during talks & breaks
✔ Name and logo visible during talks & breaks
Video recording recognition
✔ Name and logo visible on all conference YouTube videos
✔ Name and logo visible on all conference YouTube videos
Cobrand recognition
✔ Name in event promotions (email, social media)
Banner placement
✔ Display your banner in the event room
Speaking opportunity
✔ Showcase your products/services during breaks
Registrations included
1 full registration
2 full registrations
Discounts
15% off tickets
20% off tickets
25% off tickets
Scholarships
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The MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group offered scholarships for in-person attendance.
Depending on availability of funds and merit of the applicants, scholarships are awarded to a certain number of applicants.
In-person scholarships cover the cost of a conference ticket.
Scholarships must be applied for.
Applications are reviewed by the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group's scholarships committee, which is appointed by the MWStake Board of Directors.
For more information, please see
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference/Scholarships
See also
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