MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2025

MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2025
Conference details
Start:	October 28, 2025
Finish:	October 30, 2025
General Chair:
Local Chair:	Tim Wittenborg
Program Chair:
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The 4th MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference brings together developers, users, and organizations from the MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki community around the world.

October 28–30, 2025, Hanover, Germany

• Location: Leibnizhaus Guest house of the Hannover Universities, [1], Holzmarkt 5,30159 Hannover,Germany
• Website:
• Social Media: SMW on Facebook, MWStake on Mastodon, SemanticMW on X/Twitter, Semantic MediaWiki on YouTube. Hashtags on Twitter and Mastodon are #MWCon and #SMWCon.

Conference audience and mission

MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference will be a three-day conference featuring discussions of topics related to the usage of (Semantic) MediaWiki software by and within companies, non-profits, governments, organizations, and communities, including the Semantic MediaWiki community. If you use MediaWiki, or you're 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 assume your responsibilities regarding your organization's knowledge management.

Please also refer to the following pages for further details:

• Main conference page on MediaWiki.org

Call for Contributions

The program is formed by the community! What we are especially looking for:

• introductory talks or tutorials on benefits of choosing MediaWiki as a platform
• introductory talks or tutorials on ways of managing data in MediaWiki
• use-cases of MediaWiki usage in business, academia, governments, and NGOs
• tutorials for new developers (e.g. develop your own MW extension, how to create great templates, introduction to LUA…) or dev-ops (how to run MW, how to speed up MW)
• talks about research using (Semantic)MediaWiki
• talks about linking data from MediaWiki to Wikidata

Please propose a contribution to the conference:

propose a talk here

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Registration

Buy a ticket at Eventbrite! There is a limit of ?? participants that can join in Hanover!
In order to attend in person in Hanover, you must purchase a ticket via Eventbrite! You don't have to have an PayPal account, you can continue as “guest” to pay with credit card. Early-bird tickets will be available until Month day.

Rates	Professional	Freelancer / Student	MWStake Member(1)
Early bird (until Month day)	$ 400	$ 200	15% discount
Regular (starting Month day)	$ 450	$ 250	15% discount
Online (3)	Free of charge (no ticket required)	Free of charge (no ticket required)	Free of charge (no ticket required)

• (1) How to become an individual Member of the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group ($ 100 per year) is explained here. Discount codes will be sent to MWStake members via e-mail.

Sponsors

Thank you to the sponsors of MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2025!

• please contact Tim Wittenborg for sponsoring opportunities

Organization