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Updates on the progress of the Abstract Wikipedia project:

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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:

2022:

2022-12-19: Fellows' evaluation and Ariel's goodbye letter
2022-12-09: Thank you to the volunteers
2022-12-02: Monthly public NLG meetings
2022-11-23: Meet Ori Livneh, Google.org Fellow / Returning Wikipedian (direct link)
2022-11-17: Code of Conduct for Wikifunctions
2022-11-09: Checking lexical forms
2022-11-04: One Ring, or a thousand flowers?
2022-10-27: Thank you, fellows!
2022-10-20: A demo video of Wikifunctions Beta
2022-10-14: Welcome, Stef!
2022-10-05: Catching up
2022-09-30: Cory in residency in İstanbul - closing parenthesis
2022-09-27: Staff contributions to Wikifunctions
2022-09-23: The State of Abstract Wikipedia Natural Language Generation (direct link)
2022-08-19: Template language draft and Wikimania 2022
2022-08-09: Wikifunctions Beta
2022-08-05: Launch plan and representing functions
2022-07-29: Benjamin arrays
2022-07-20: Welcome, Rebecca and Elena! Welcome to the second round of Google.org fellows!
2022-07-15: The potential of Abstract Wikipedia
2022-07-12: Welcome, Amin! Cory in residency
2022-06-30: Thank you, Aishwarya! And we are hiring
2022-06-21: Manually-written articles
2022-06-10: Recommendations for Wikifunctions
2022-06-07: Model articles
2022-05-27: A proposal for the NLG architecture
2022-05-20: Abstract Wikipedia Team's first off-site
2022-05-05: How can we make functions popular?
2022-04-28: Requirements for code in Wikifunctions
2022-04-20: Welcome, Josh! And we are hiring a Product Manager
2022-04-12: Welcome, Google.org Fellows!
2022-04-08: Phase η completed
2022-04-01: Typed lists are looong
2022-03-25: Designing Wikifunctions, brick by brick (direct link)
2022-03-14: What's in a name?
2022-03-04: Update on the ongoing development phase; Designs for view function upcoming; Update on tests and smoke testing
2022-02-11: View function designs and launch plan requirements
2022-02-04: What's up with the lambda?
2022-01-28: How do we represent functions?
2022-01-21: Welcome, Luca!
2022-01-13: Update on phase η

2021:

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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2020-09-15 – 2020-12-22: Wiki of functions naming contest; followed by a logo contest
2020-07-02: Public announcement of the project; development begins on Extension:WikiLambda; mailing list and other channels created and in-depth discussions increase
2020-05-22: Project approved by a Wikimedia Foundation Resolution
2013 – 2020: Early project discussion, research, and proposal

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