Abstract Wikipedia/Updates/2022-12-09

Abstract Wikipedia Updates

Thank you to the volunteers!

‘Tis the season to say thanks! And no one deserves more thanks than the volunteers. Thanks everyone who has followed the year in development, and thanks everyone who contributed to the project. We want to thank a few volunteers by name.

Teleosteen has been very active in the last few months in particular, picking up tasks from the Phabricator board and improving the prototype as we move along. Teleosteen has been contributing to end-to-end tests which proved absolutely critical to ensuring smoother development and, eventually, a successful launch of Wikifunctions. Thank you, Teleosteen!

Thanks go out to the volunteers on the Natural Language Generation workstream, Mahir Morshed, Maria Keet, and Kutz Arrieta, for their contributions during the last few months, and Aarne Ranta and Krasimir Angelov for recently joining meetings. The members in this group have been actively working on their approaches, and, warm-heartedly, we are impressed and thankful for how they are cooperating and bringing the best ideas from their solutions together.

Thanks to William Avery for his contributions to the Form checker tool we featured a few weeks ago. He extended the tool to allow separating between, e.g., nouns of different grammatical genders; and made the tool more usable with a throbber, and features to filter and select. The current version is so much more useful.

Thanks to Hogü-456's work on exploring how to bring programming to a larger number of people. He correctly identified spreadsheets as the most widely used coding platform, and is working on bridging the gap between Wikifunctions and spreadsheets.

A big thank you to Jan Ainali, who is consistently spreading the word about Wikifunctions to more audiences. I appreciate it.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed and played around on the Wikifunctions Beta. We have cleaned up the main page of the Beta, in order to make the existing work visible, and there are dozens of functions there that just worked out of the box. A few of them we tried to help fix. If there is something you are curious about, feel free to ask. I’d be happy to help. Take a look at the main page of the beta, and try out some of the functions we have! And feel free to add more.

Thanks to the contributors of lexicographical data on Wikidata! There are too many to name them all, but let me highlight Nikki and their continued work with the coverage dashboard, Finn Årup Nielsen and his work on Ordia which makes the results visible, again Mahir and his contributions to push the lexicographical data to become more expressive, and Envel Le Hir for running the weekly Wikidata Lexeme Challenge.

Thanks to everyone contributing to translations of the documentation and the code. In particular: 리듬 and Frettie for translating almost all the Newsletters and many other pages!

And thanks to all of you who have left ideas, nice and encouraging words, in emails, chats, wiki pages, other websites, and sometimes even in person.

Thanks to everyone reading these words, and for your interest in Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions.

Thank you all! We are thankful for all of your trust in what we are doing, it is a blessing, and we are excited to build this project and community together with all of you!

Development updates (as of December 2)

Experience & Performance:

Wrote a patch to use Vue Testing in FE integrations
Fixed more FE bugs
Finalized the design proposal for Aliases component improvements (T318148)
Added a success snackbar to the redirect page after successful zObject creation (T321741)
Started work on timeouts in the orchestrator/evaluator

Meta-data:

Closed epic: Function, Implementation, and Tester meta-data is emitted and displayed to users (T303345)
Orchestrator does not pass down error to PHP layer (T321389) (subject to review and requested revisions)

Natural Language Generation:

Active discussions about how to integrate the Grammatical Framework
Aarne Ranta demoed Wikidata statements