2024:Program/State of Wikifunctions
Session title: State of Wikifunctions
- Session type: Lecture
- Track: Technology
- Language: en
Wikifunctions is the newest Wikimedia project, having launched less than a year ago. We introduce Wikifunctions and highlight the current state of the project in its first year. We show what the new community has achieved so far. We show how the features that have been developed since its launch have been used. We will provide metrics and statistics around the growth of Wikifunctions so far. We also will lay out the improvements that are underway, discuss its planned integration into the other Wikimedia projects and close with the longer-term future goals of supporting Abstract Wikipedia.
Description
[edit | edit source]Wikifunctions (available at wikifunctions.org) is the newest Wikimedia project. It launched towards the end of last year. Wikifunctions' goal is to create a library of functions that is useful to many people in various circumstances, but primarily to support the Wikimedia projects, and make editing easier in our projects, particularly across language barriers.
We will introduce and explain the idea behind Wikifunctions, and discuss the current state of the project. We will provide metrics and statistics around the growth of Wikifunctions so far. Our goal is to let the nascent community and their achievement shine.
We will discuss next steps, particularly our current ideas on how to integrate Wikifunctions with the other Wikimedia projects in the upcoming few months after Wikimania. We want to invite a discussion with the wider community in order to understand their requirements and wishes with regards to the integration, and to discuss our preliminary plans.
The last part of the presentation is to situate Wikifunctions within the wider “Abstract Wikipedia” project, and how it plans to lead to a considerable decrease in the knowledge gaps particularly in the smaller language editions, but also how it will enable contributors from non-dominant backgrounds to contribute more effectively to the world’s largest knowledge project.
Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOeZ8sHimN0&list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJdC5P86rsDsUtxEow0gDnR&t=2802
- How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?
Wikifunctions is an open, collaborative project. We are exploring entirely new paths to the collaborative creation and open sharing of functionality which has not been available before.
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
Resources
[edit | edit source]- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rYH_J5rt2Sho1JsFgGi48mmRmW8vG5tNPGhl4-bFGZE/edit?usp=sharing
Speakers
[edit | edit source]- Luca Martinelli [Sannita]
- Wikimedian user since 2006, admin on Italian Wikipedia, Wikidata and Neapolitan Wikipedia, I work for Wikimedia Foundation since 2021. Among other things I do, I currently work as Community Relations Specialist for Wikifunctions, operating as a liaison between the community and the developer team.
- James D. Forrester
- James is a Principal Software Engineer working for the Wikimedia Foundation as tech lead for the Abstract Wikipedia team. A Wikimedia volunteer since 2002, James has been staff at the Foundation since 2012.
- Sharvani Haran
- I am the Product Manager for the Abstract Wikipedia team. I have been with the foundation for 7 years. I contribute to Kannada and Hindi wikis, along with English. I am very passionate about knowledge equity among our wikis and am thrilled to be part of Wikimania 2024!