Abstrak Wikipedia/Updates/2021-12-21

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Kootusan kolisinan, om ponompon toun

Miagal i napalan, maan no dahai sompono pibarasan lisin. Kootusan dii, mongintigas korohian ginumuan, miagal di pointanud:

  • Koinsanai kouhupan montok Wikifuntions om projek talaab Abstrak Wikipedia maan posolimbowo' id siriba do lisin poingukab.
  • Tonsi Tekstual id Wikifunctions maan posolobowo' siriba CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Tandalongon kiguno om struktur suai tonsi id Wikifunctions maan posolimbowo' siriba CC 0.
  • Kod ponguridangan id Wikifunctions maan ndo posolimbowo' siriba do Apache 2 lisin.
  • Abstract Content montok Abstract Wikipedia maan posolimbowo' siriba CC BY-SA 3.0.

Yahai pinoposogu' do kointigasan minggu nakatalib, om nokorongou koi no komi nu. Ontok timpu kumaraja tadau Tontolu, di nokoumbal nogi do popoimagon do monompon pibarasan, minaan dahai pisiiso'o duo po kawagu komi:

  • Timpuunon, maan dahai poopongo' ponguhatan kokomoi lisin kokomoi tonsi di winonsoi mantad tonsi abstrak di poingukab nondo. Maan kawagu dahai intangai ponguhatan diti nung miboboros yahai kokomoi kinoyonon tonsi abstrak montok Abstract Wikipedia toun tiso.
  • Kotilombus, Monuai koi ndo dokumen miampai jabatan popohimag kokomoi poingkuro tulun milo momoguno kawagu kod mantad Wikifunctions miampai au manahak kobolingkangan nung milo om pointanud ii do kooturan lisin.

Yahai nogi poposolimbou log di poinggonop ontok timpu kumaraja tadau Tontolu.

Au koi kopio kagampot piunungan id ponguhatan (di maan da kopio no soroho'), mantad di tuminanud yahai do !undi om om banta di pinoinsawat. Ponsikou no kopio isai-isai di nokohompit kaamapatan di pibarasan, ponsikou no ri banta pointilombus, om ponsikou nogi do kumaraja mulong po koyuan di apagon. Mongunsikou oku nogi kopio kumaa Stephen LaPorte do kouhupan diti, om Quiddity do minonginsonong karaja diti.


The team, together with a few volunteers, had the opportunity to reflect on our wishes and hopes for Wikifunctions in 2022. I wanted to use the chance of this year’s final newsletter to let you know about some of these hopes.

Our plan is to launch Wikifunctions in 2022. And our expectation is that in the first few weeks and months after launch we will discover many bugs and issues, and we will rely on your patience and help with those. We will switch from a team developing a product into a team maintaining and expanding a product, reacting to bug reports and issues. We will need to balance the issues of an on-going project with the need to develop new features beyond those with which we will launch.

One thing that was mentioned several times was that we look forward to being surprised. Surprised by the creativity of the community, and what they will do with this new project. We hope for a number of communities to grow around parts of Wikifunctions, and that Wikifunctions will be used in novel and unexpected ways.

Particularly high on our wishlist was the hope that smaller, under-served communities will find their way to Wikifunctions, and that Wikifunctions will be one way for achieving more balanced and representative communities within current Wikipedias and the Wikimedia movement as a whole. We hope that the functions in Wikifunctions will be requested and used by a great diversity of contributors and users, and that Wikifunctions will start contributing to knowledge equity in our world sooner rather than later. We hope to see the diversity of the world reflected in our usage, in our users, in our contributors, and in the depth and breadth of our catalog of functions.

We hope that Wikifunctions might have the opportunity to dispel the myth that “programming is really hard”. Wikifunctions will let people ask their questions and answer them using functions. But not just that: we will also expose and make transparent how these functions work. Everyone will be able to "peek behind the curtain" and see how the answers are being computed. This is not only meant as a way to build trust in the results of Wikifunctions, but also to show that these computations are not that complicated. By showing how functions are composed from simpler functions, and allowing people to read these compositions in their language, we hope to democratize access to functions and the knowledge of their inner workings, not just in Wikifunctions itself but in the computers that surround us all.

We hope to overcome in a timely fashion any challenges of technical scaling and our growing pains as we discover new use cases for Wikifunctions. We have a lot of ideas on how to grow and improve the system and the services that we will offer, and we hope that the usage patterns of Wikifunctions and discussions will guide us in picking the most productive areas for improvement.

We hope to iterate and experiment with the Wikifunctions software, and over time discover and implement a good experience and a good conceptual model to make Wikifunctions widely usable for everyone. We hope that people will discover the low hanging fruit with which Wikifunctions can help them, and that we will quickly grow beyond that into the role of being an integral part of tomorrow’s knowledge infrastructure.

The first newsletter of 2022 should be expected in the week of 10 January 2022. Happy holidays, and a great start into the new year 2022!