Wikifunctions crossed 4000 functions this weekend, with subtracting two complex numbers being judged as the 4000th function. Also, Abstract Wikipedia crossed the first 1000 articles, with the article about the legendary Indian Brahmin Chanakya. Congratulations to the community!
Just before sending out this newsletter, a deployment may have resolved some of the ongoing issues with the system. A combination of hard-to-debug issues while a few of our engineers are out lead to a real test for your patience. We are sorry for the inconvenience we caused, and thankful for your patience. There were issues involving the caches throughout the whole Wikifunctions infrastructure, which had an effect on the display of previews in Abstract Wikipedia, on embedded function calls across all enabled projects, and access to Wikidata data from functions. This should cover T420630, T422299, and T432211, and maybe others. Please let us know if you encounter further issues, or they don’t seem resolved. Thanks to the engineering team and SRE for their work resolving this!
This week, on Wikifunctions, the display of labels when function calls are collapsed has been adjusted to better handle long labels or narrow windows, with further improvements coming soon (T421959); on Abstract Wikipedia, links to abstract articles on special pages (such as Special:RecentChanges or Special:AllPages) now show a label alongside the QID (e.g., “universe (Q1)”) (T420254), and fragment fetches now hit servers more gently, giving them more time to respond before saying they timed out (T421581).
Based on a proposal by YoshiRulz, an enumeration type for word order has been implemented as word order (Z33568). We invite you all to create new and discuss the existing type proposals so we can keep on creating new types.
This Monday’s volunteer’s corner (13 April 2026) is now available as a recording on Commons. This time, we did not have the time to build a function together, but instead had a lot of questions and a number of discussions, particularly about Abstract Wikipedia.
This Saturday, 18 April 2026, Wikimedia Deutschland’s Wikipedia 25 bus is coming to Stuttgart, Germany. The event at the Stuttgart library includes booths and a program with presentations. Plenty of Wikipedia volunteers will be there during the day. One of the presentations will be around Wikidata and also Abstract Wikipedia. The event is from 11:00 to 17:00 local time. The event is in German, although speakers of other languages will be among the volunteers and at the booths.
Late last year in Nara, Japan, at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2025, Denny gave the opening keynote, celebrating Wikipedia and the Semantic Web - 20 years of co-development, and the future. The talks start with the roots of the histories of both Wikipedia and the Semantic Web, before showing how they interacted with each other in the last two decades, leading to the development of Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. The recording of the talk is now available on VideoLectures.net.
No program for the NLG SIG (the natural language generation special interest group) meeting for next Tuesday has been proposed, and we therefore cancel the meeting.
This week we had 46 new functions. Here is an incomplete list of functions with implementations and passing tests to get a taste of what functions have been created. Thanks everybody for contributing!
A complete list of all functions sorted by when they were created is available.