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page aims to give a reasonably current view on the <b>current status</b> of Wikifunctions. If something does not work, this page is a good first stop to check if that is a known issue. </p><p>This page is not the complete source of details. A more immediate view is the <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4876/" class="extiw" title="phab:project/view/4876/">"Abstract Wikipedia" Phabricator board</a>. This page just aims to provide a good and more easily understandable overview of major known issues and problems. </p><p>See <a href="/wiki/Wikifunctions:Report_a_technical_problem" title="Wikifunctions:Report a technical problem">Wikifunctions:Report a technical problem</a> for details on how to report a bug or make a feature request. </p><p><b>Summary</b>: This page is not complete. We don't plan to list every single user facing issue, but merely the main ones. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Prioritisation_framework" data-mw-thread-id="h-Prioritisation_framework"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Prioritisation_framework"></span>Prioritisation framework<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Prioritisation_framework"></span></h2></div> <p>This is the framework the development team use to make sure we're working on the important things for you. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Task prioritisation framework for Wikifunctions issues, July 2023 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Level </th> <th scope="col">Meaning </th> <th scope="col">Timeliness </th> <th scope="col">Areas of concern </th> <th scope="col">Example </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">P0 </th> <td>A critical concern in production that must be fixed immediately </td> <td>Fix immediately. Drop everything. </td> <td> <ul><li>Data corruption</li> <li>Damage to integrity of the system</li> <li>Leaking of sensitive data</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Any time someone presses 'Publish', the page is instead broken for everyone until reverted</li> <li>Abusive calls at a scale that overwhelms the system so real users can't do anything</li> <li>Unauthorised users can see the IP used by a user making a function call</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">P1 </th> <td>The service is significantly limited, for a large number of users </td> <td>Fix within a week. </td> <td> <ul><li>Major functionality loss for many people</li> <li>Significant performance issue for most users</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>The editing system doesn't work on mobile devices</li> <li>When most users press "Evaluate", they instead get a "Sorry, system busy" message</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">P2 </th> <td>The service is limited, for a smaller number of users </td> <td>Fix within a month. </td> <td> <ul><li>Minor functionality loss for only a few people</li> <li>Minor performance issue that doesn't impact most users</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>The function calling system doesn't work for users of a minor browser</li> <li>For a few minutes a day, functions take ten or so seconds to reply instead of less than one.</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">P3 </th> <td>The service is imperfect, or could do better (including new feature requests) </td> <td>Triage and set expectations. </td> <td> <ul><li>User experience leads to confusion</li> <li>Non-optimal experience</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Some key system labels have been translated very expansively or technocratically, and the UX feels very clunky or intimidating</li> <li>After making an edit, the new page flashes into view rather than smoothly transitions from one state to the next</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Is_anything_currently_very_broken?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Is_anything_currently_very_broken?"><span id="Is_anything_currently_very_broken.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Is_anything_currently_very_broken?"></span>Is anything currently very broken?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Is_anything_currently_very_broken?"></span></h2></div> <dl><dd><i>No current known P0 or P1 issues!</i></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="What_are_we_working_on_this_Quarter?_(October–December_2024)" data-mw-thread-id="h-What_are_we_working_on_this_Quarter?_(October–December_2024)"><span id="What_are_we_working_on_this_Quarter.3F_.28October.E2.80.93December_2024.29"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-What_are_we_working_on_this_Quarter?_(October–December_2024)"></span>What are we working on this Quarter? (October–December 2024)<span data-mw-comment-end="h-What_are_we_working_on_this_Quarter?_(October–December_2024)"></span></h2></div> <table class="messagebox plainlinks layouttemplate" style="margin:2px 10%;width:auto;border:2px solid #48d;background:#fbfcff;color:#222;border-left-width:8px;border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><tbody><tr> <td class="mbox-image" style="padding-left:.9em"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Commons-emblem-notice.svg/45px-Commons-emblem-notice.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="45" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Commons-emblem-notice.svg/68px-Commons-emblem-notice.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Commons-emblem-notice.svg/90px-Commons-emblem-notice.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text">Updates on this Quarter's work, and the new Quarter's work to come, will be published in the community newsletter in the normal way.</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Each Quarter, we set out in a <a href="/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates" title="Wikifunctions:Status updates">Weekly Update</a> our plans, and then report on how we're doing. </p><p>The current work plan, for October–December 2024, was published in <a href="/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2024-09-26" title="Wikifunctions:Status updates/2024-09-26">2024-09-26</a>: </p> <ul><li>(<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376521" class="extiw" title="phab:T376521">T376521</a>) <b>Enable one Wikifunctions use case in one language Wikipedia</b>: Just two weeks ago, we announced that we aim to have <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2024-09-13" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikifunctions:Status updates/2024-09-13">our first integration with Wikipedia</a> on the Dagbani Wikipedia. We aim to develop everything needed for that integration this quarter, and to likely deploy it very early next year (<i>i.e.</i>, January 2025).</li> <li>(<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376078" class="extiw" title="phab:T376078">T376078</a>) <b>Wikipedia integration usability improvements</b>: We will continue our research, design and user test usability enhancements to make the integration of Wikifunctions into Wikipedia easier. The implementation of these design improvements will happen afterwards.</li> <li>(<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376662" class="extiw" title="phab:T376662">T376662</a>) <b>Iterate the Wikidata integration, and plan its and the Type system's evolution</b>: We are very close towards the first integration of Wikidata into Wikifunctions. The next quarter will see us extend that integration to cover more parts of the Wikidata data model, and to evolve the Wikifunctions type system to work with that.</li> <li>(<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376664" class="extiw" title="phab:T376664">T376664</a>) <b>Wikifunctions services alert monitoring</b>: We want to be automatically notified when the Wikifunctions services are having issues.</li> <li>(<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376668" class="extiw" title="phab:T376668">T376668</a>) <b>Service platform improvements</b>: Our services are built on top of an outdated "template" of how to write a back-end service, originally created a decade ago before many changes in how Wikimedia manages them. We want to modernise our services, replacing the base platform with a simpler, faster framework. We also will explore rewriting the evaluator in a different language better suited to process management.</li> <li>(<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376671" class="extiw" title="phab:T376671">T376671</a>) <b>On-wiki tooling to improve content and help editors onboard</b>: We plan to create a set of related special pages to support the Wikifunctions community with maintenance, like finding proposed Implementations that need to be connected, or Functions that don't have any labels in a given language like French or Igbo.</li> <li>(<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368002" class="extiw" title="phab:T368002">T368002</a>) <b>Testing Wikifunctions Services with Catalyst</b>: Catalyst is the Wikimedia Foundation’s platform to support development through Continuous Integration and testing. We want to integrate the Wikifunctions backend services.</li> <li>(<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375065" class="extiw" title="phab:T375065">T375065</a>) <b>Improve performance of the PHP layer</b>: We want to give the MediaWiki layer a proper audit. For example, we know that we are validating objects more often than needed. The goal is to cut unnecessary work and improve performance.</li> <li>(<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376663" class="extiw" title="phab:T376663">T376663</a>) <b>Make Phabricator more useful for the team</b>: Phabricator is our main task and bug management system, but it needs some work to get a better handling of the many tasks on our board so that we are focussed on working on the right things at the right time.</li> <li>(<i>No Phab task</i>) <b>Establish team chores practice</b>: As a team, we want to adopt practices to help us improve reliability of the site and our responsiveness to issues and questioned that you raise on the site.</li></ul> <p>You can see <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/7414/" class="extiw" title="phab:project/view/7414/">our team's Phabricator board for the current Quarter</a> for more detailed tracking of how things are going. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Longer-term_plans" data-mw-thread-id="h-Longer-term_plans"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Longer-term_plans"></span>Longer-term plans<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Longer-term_plans"></span></h2></div> <dl><dd><i>These are issues that we hope to work on in the future, as part of the bigger plans for Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. 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There are a number of built-in functions, <i>e.g.</i> <a href="/view/en/Z811" title="Z811">first element of a list</a>, <a href="/view/en/Z881" title="Z881">typed list</a>, and many others, which are currently not well-supported for custom types, which we are looking at addressing. Generic types and generic functions require a bit of development and bug-fixing, and are not ready yet. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="You_cannot_embed_Wikifunctions_calls_in_Wikipedia_articles,_Wiktionary_entries,_etc." data-mw-thread-id="h-You_cannot_embed_Wikifunctions_calls_in_Wikipedia_articles,_Wiktionary_entries,-Longer-term_plans"><span id="You_cannot_embed_Wikifunctions_calls_in_Wikipedia_articles.2C_Wiktionary_entries.2C_etc."></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-You_cannot_embed_Wikifunctions_calls_in_Wikipedia_articles,_Wiktionary_entries,-Longer-term_plans"></span>You cannot embed Wikifunctions calls in Wikipedia articles, Wiktionary entries, <i>etc.</i><span data-mw-comment-end="h-You_cannot_embed_Wikifunctions_calls_in_Wikipedia_articles,_Wiktionary_entries,-Longer-term_plans"></span></h3></div> <div class="tracked tracked-floatright mw-trackedTemplate"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r118096"> Tracked in <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator">Phabricator</a>: <br/> <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272516" class="extiw" title="phabricator:T272516"><strong class="trakfab-T272516">Task T272516</strong></a></div> <p>This is a vital part of helping communities get the benefit of Wikifunctions, as well as building towards the Abstract Wikipedia goal. 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