MUDCon agenda layout test
De Semantic MediaWiki - Sandbox
Layout test for the MUDCon agenda templates. It shows the draft program for days 1 and 2 of MUDCon Fall 2026 as of 19 September 2026, which is not the published program. All times CET; talk titles link to the proposals on semantic-mediawiki.org.
Day 1 · Wednesday, 11 November 2026
Structured data and cultural heritage, building on wikis, wikis and their communities
09:0045 min
Registration and coffee
09:4515 min
Welcome and opening
Christian Erlinger
Welcome, practical information and an overview of the three days.
Modeling and editing structured data
10:0020 min
Anton KromFreelancer
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
Christian ErlingerGLAM-Consultant librerli.eu, Partner at KMA Knowledge Management Austria
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]
10:3520 min
10:5520 min
Charlot CobbenDeveloper at Wikibase Solutions
Keep you up-to-date with some new possibilities [read more]
11:155 min
Short break
11:2045 min
KeynoteKeynote
Marko Robnik-Šikonja
Topic to be announced.
12:0560 min
Lunch
13:0515 min
Sören Wachsmuth
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
Building a FAIR Pipeline for Digitised Archival Materials: OCR, IIIF, and Semantic Wikibase in PracticeTalkIn-person
Guergana Tzatchkova
This lightning talk presents a technical pipeline for making digitised cultural heritage archives Machine-readable and semantically queryable. [read more]
13:3525 min
Prototyping a wiki by reel driven development: Documenting the e-bike trip from Bari to LjubljanaTalkIn-person
Wolfgang FahlFounder and owner of BITPlan, Germany, Research Assistant at RWTH Aachen i5
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]
14:005 min
Short break
14:0530 min
Jeroen De DauwSMW maintainer and Wikibase creator. CEO of Professional Wiki, and ProWiki
Introduction, demo, and roadmap of NeoWiki, the new structured data extension [read more]
Building on wikis
14:3525 min
Keith Y
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]
15:0030 min
Coffee break
15:3025 min
Wout GevaertDeveloper at Wikibase Solutions
MediaWiki's OAuth extension allows a wiki to act as an OAuth server, enabling several ways to authenticate and authorize. A way that is not supported up till now is OAuth Token Exchange, RFC 8693. I will discuss implementing this protocol. [read more]
Wikis and their communities
15:5530 min
Bernhard KrabinaPartner at KMA Knowledge Management Austria
In spring of 2026 an online survey was conducted among third-party-users of MediaWiki. In the talk we ill present the survey results and discuss implications. [read more]
16:2515 min
Keith Lyndaker Schlabach
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]
16:4015 min
Daniel Dobriy
16:5510 min
Closing of day 1 and outlook on day 2
Karsten Hoffmeyer
A short review of the first day and announcements for the evening and the next day.
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
09:0030 min
Doors and coffee
09:3010 min
Opening of day 2
Karsten Hoffmeyer
Announcements and an overview of the second day.
Deploying, extending and securing MediaWiki
09:4030 min
Cindy CicalesePrincipal Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
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]
10:1025 min
10:3515 min
Lukas Günther
Searching for open access points to Wikibase data and how to lock them down in a robust and secure way [read more]
10:505 min
Short break
10:5515 min
Devendrayk
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
Devendrayk
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
Cindy CicalesePrincipal Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
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
Charlot CobbenDeveloper at Wikibase Solutions
A talk about current trend of AI implementations withing MediaWiki [read more]
12:0060 min
Lunch
13:0045 min
Vlado Dimovski, Simon Colnar
13:455 min
Aravindhaa V
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
Aravindhaa V
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
Building a Microsoft Graph Connector for MediaWiki: Semantic Content Synchronization and SearchTalkRemote
Shreenivas Madagundi
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
14:355 min
Yaron Koren
Recent changes and improvements to the Wanda MediaWiki extension, including creation and editing of pages. [read more]
14:4030 min
Coffee break
15:1030 min
Jeroen De DauwSMW maintainer and Wikibase creator. CEO of Professional Wiki, and ProWiki
Live demos of AI agents working with your wiki and the MediaWiki MCP Server [read more]
15:4040 min
Comparing Semantic MediaWiki, Wikibase and NeoWiki for Cultural Heritage use cases in the context of ECHOLOTDiscussionIn-person
Lozana Rossenova, Jeroen De Dauw, Bernhard Krabina
This discussion shares current lessons learned from use cases piloted and tested within the Horizon Europe-funded ECHOLOT project [read more]
16:205 min
Short break
Developing MediaWiki together
16:2530 min
16:5510 min
Closing of day 2 and outlook on day 3
Karsten Hoffmeyer
A short review of the second day and announcements for the evening and the next day.
Socializing and connecting
Evening
Conference dinner
Time and venue to be announced.
Day 3 · Friday, 13 November 2026
Developing MediaWiki together
09:0030 min
Doors and coffee
09:305 min
Opening of day 3
Karsten Hoffmeyer
Announcements and an overview of the third day.
Developing MediaWiki together
09:3530 min
James Forrester
MediaWiki development tools: Which exist, how they've developed, which work for Wikimedia but might not for the wider ecosystem, and what we might do about it. [read more]
10:4515 min
Coffee break
11:0045 min
Lex Sulzer, Cindy Cicalese
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
Karsten HoffmeyerDirector of Professional Wiki (ProWiki)
Beginners tutorial about how to annotate data and do basic queries for this data. [read more]
12:3010 min
Closing of the conference
Christian Erlinger
A short review of the three days, thanks and farewell.
