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Updates on the progress of the Abstract Wikipedia project:

Newsletters[edit]

2024:

All further updates from February 2024 on are now hosted on Wikifunctions itself.

  • 2024-01-25: Getting debug information from code; Function of the Week: Wrap string
  • 2024-01-17: Refreshing the Function page; Function of the Week: ROT13
  • 2024-01-11: The Joy of Collaboration; Introducing the Function of the Week: reverse string
  • 2024-01-03: Introducing our first new type: Lists
2023:
  • 2023-12-13: Looking back at 2023
  • 2023-12-06: Announcing Wikifunctions on the Wikimedia Foundation blog. Looking for feedback on the Function page proposal.
  • 2023-11-30: Welcome, Grace and Miguel! Appointing Functioneers now by community
  • 2023-11-16: What types next?
  • 2023-11-07: Wikifunctions, the library of functions that anyone can use and edit
  • 2023-11-03: Python in WebAssembly; Improvements on Object Selector; Next Volunteer's Corner
  • 2023-10-25: Running on WebAssembly
  • 2023-10-04: Arguments made easier
  • 2023-09-27: Serializers and deserializers for types
  • 2023-09-20: Renderers and parsers for types
  • 2023-09-08: Let’s start building morphological paradigms!
  • 2023-08-31: Wikimania digest, CoSMo language, GFpedia demo, CCKS keynote
  • 2023-08-14: Wikifunctions at Wikimania
  • 2023-08-07: Wikifunctions is starting up (also on Diff blog)
  • 2023-07-26: Wikifunctions is up (read-only), Welcome Megan, and we are hiring!
  • 2023-07-20: Planning deployment dates
  • 2023-07-17: Google.org supports Abstract Wikipedia with $3 Million
  • 2023-07-12: Rockefeller Foundation supports Abstract Wikipedia with $1 Million
  • 2023-07-07: Welcome Amy!
  • 2023-06-28: Thank you, Cai and Allan!
  • 2023-06-22: Team offsite in Delft
  • 2023-06-07: Multilingual editing
  • 2023-06-02: Hackathon in Athens
  • 2023-05-25: Our new viewing and editing experience is now available
  • 2023-05-17: Thank you, Julia!
  • 2023-05-12: Welcome Carrie!
  • 2023-04-28: Wikimedia Endowment awards $1 Million Dollar grant to Abstract Wikipedia, Team's manifesto published, Volunteer’s corner 8 May
  • 2023-04-19: Selecting the right implementation, Reflections by Maria Keet, Abstract Wikipedia in Swedish
  • 2023-03-23: Abstract Wikipedia and Grammatical Framework
  • 2023-03-15: Quo vadis, Abstract Wikipedia?
  • 2023-03-02: Decolonizing Functions
  • 2023-02-23: Thank you, Adesoji! Welcome Allan! A new position for an engineer, and videos and another meeting opportunity
  • 2023-02-17: Wikifunctions: a Compendium of Calculations; DUCT and Abstract Representation presentations
  • 2023-02-08: More thoughts on the fellows’ evaluation; Name for improvement process
  • 2023-02-01: Closing Goal 4 - the Function page
  • 2023-01-25: Some good byes ❤️
  • 2023-01-19: State of Wikifunctions January 2023
  • 2023-01-11: Sandy's goodbye letter: on design
2022:
2021:
  • 2021-12-21: Licensing decision, and closing the year
  • 2021-12-16: Proposed summary of the licensing discussion. Welcome, Mariya! Office hour on Monday at 19:00 UTC
  • 2021-12-09: Diversity and Equity and Wikifunctions
  • 2021-12-02: Restructuring the licensing discussion; Design update; Logo assets
  • 2021-11-22: What license should we use?
  • 2021-11-18: Welcome, Julia!
  • 2021-11-04: Welcome, David! - and a request for help testing designs
  • 2021-10-27: We have a logo for Wikifunctions
  • 2021-10-22: Inclusion and diversity despite mathematics
  • 2021-10-08: Welcome, Cai and Adesoji!
  • 2021-09-30: Thank you, Lindsay!
  • 2021-09-24: User research reports and lessons learned
  • 2021-09-17: Lexemes and paradigms
  • 2021-09-10: Morphological paradigms
  • 2021-09-03: Generating text with Ninai and Udiron
  • 2021-08-27: Phase ζ completed
  • 2021-08-20: Wikimania and GF Summer School debrief
  • 2021-08-13: Testers and Wikimania
  • 2021-07-29: Abstract descriptions for Wikidata
  • 2021-07-22: Boolean logic in Wikilambda
  • 2021-07-16: Welcome Max Binder! - and we’re hiring!
  • 2021-06-30: Phase ε completed
  • 2021-06-24: Invitation to the Grammatical Framework Summer School
  • 2021-06-17: Why allow several implementations of a function?
  • 2021-06-04: Office hour, videos, meeting opportunities, and a podcast
  • 2021-05-28: What Wikifunctions is not
  • 2021-05-11: Phase δ completed
  • 2021-05-06: The missing link from Abstract Wikipedia to Lexicographic data in Wikidata
  • 2021-04-29: Lexicographical coverage, a first function call evaluated, and more
  • 2021-04-21: Welcome, Aishwarya and Carolyn!
  • 2021-04-15: Selection of focus languages
  • 2021-04-08: A mission statement for Wikifunctions
  • 2021-04-02: Phase γ completed
  • 2021-03-25: Outreachy intern analysis of Scribunto modules across wikis
  • 2021-03-17: Logo concept voting closes, and 30 Lexic-o-days opens
  • 2021-03-10: Vue.js and Abstract Wikipedia
  • 2021-03-03: Focus languages for improvements to the lexicographic extension of Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia
  • 2021-02-25: Logo concept voting will start on Monday
  • 2021-02-18: A test suite for evaluation engines (and other updates)
  • 2021-02-10: Two prototype tools to visualize lexicographic coverage in Wikidata
  • 2021-02-04: Phase β completed
  • 2021-01-28: Community contributions to development
  • 2021-01-21: A pre-generic function model
  • 2021-01-15: Looking for logo proposals
  • 2021-01-07: Welcome, Cory!
2020:
  • 2020-12-18: Newsletter takes a break
  • 2020-12-09: Open Source: the Outreachy program and Abstract Wikipedia
  • 2020-12-02: Welcome, Genoveva!
  • 2020-11-25: Reserved ZIDs
  • 2020-11-17: Naming contest results
  • 2020-11-10: Objects
  • 2020-11-05: Starting the second round of the naming contest
  • 2020-10-29: Happy Birthday, Wikidata!
  • 2020-10-22: Labels, documentation, short descriptions for objects
  • 2020-10-14: Naming contest; Outreachy program; initial development of ZObjects; developing for the Semantic Web
  • 2020-10-07: Functions are a form of knowledge; functions answer questions
  • 2020-09-30: Which path we are going to take


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