The on-wiki version of this newsletter can be found here: https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2025-10-03 -- Rich text now available for embedded Wikifunctions calls

We have this week enabled "rich text" (meaning enabling some HTML) embedded Wikifunctions calls, which means that you can write Functions that rather than just a Unicode code point (Z86) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z86 of plain (unstyled) text, can output a HTML fragment (Z89) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z89, like "*Jane Doe* (*born 1 Jan 2000*) is an actor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/actor." or more complex things like a table or list. The first two demonstration Functions for this are Multiplication table (Z23293) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z23293 and Latin first declension table (Z26333) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z26333, which we have demonstrated on the sandbox page https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Embedded_function_calls/sandbox?oldid=221273. Please tell us if you find any issues, and happy Functioneering! Wikifunctions available on 148 Wiktionaries and the Incubator

The ability to embed Wikifunctions function calls is now available on 25 more Wiktionaries and on Wikimedia Incubator. The 25 new Wiktionary language editions are French, Greek, Spanish, Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch, Vietnamese, Italian, Finnish, Turkish, Korean, Swedish, Czech, Portuguese, Armenian, Tamil, Thai, Malagasy, Hindi, Persian, Catalan, Romanian, Hebrew, Bulgarian, and Simple English.

This brings the total of Wiktionary editions with the ability to embed Wikifunctions to 148, in addition to Dagbani Wikipedia, Wikimedia Incubator, Wikifunctions itself, and Test Wikipedia.

This leaves us with 21 Wiktionary language editions that currently don’t have Wikifunctions: Zulu, Interlingua, Inuktitut, Scottish Gaelic, Tajik, Walloon, Georgian Ukrainian, Asturian, Icelandic, Galician, Serbocroatian, Serbian, Uzbek, Hungarian, Kurdish, Polish, Chinese, German, Russian, and English.

These are be due to one or more of these reasons:

- The wiki uses flagged revisions (i.e. Ukrainian, Icelandic, Polish, German, and Russian), which until recently did not work with Wikifunctions. - The wiki uses content translation, i.e. it is available in several scripts (i.e. Serbocroatian, Serbian, Uzbek, and Chinese) - The wiki does not have Parsoid enabled yet, for other reasons (i.e. English, Kurdish, Hungarian, Galician, Asturian, Georgian, Walloon, Tajik, Scottish Gaelic, Inuktitut, Interlingua, Zulu)

Once these reasons are resolved, we plan to deploy Wikifunctions on those Wikitionaries as well in order to get to a full coverage of Wiktionaries. Recent Changes in the software

There has been one bigger user-facing change this week, plus a number of smaller bug fixes and preparatory work for using errors.

We have changed the interface for multi-lingual strings, to limit the list of languages shown (T391130 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391130). We hope that this will make the interface less "heavy" and intimidating, by helping you focus on your languages (if available) and the common ones. You can click on the button at the bottom of each list to see all available languages, and picking a language without a label will move you to edit mode to add it. We're interested in your thoughts on this new design, and what improvements we can make.

We have made it possible for a Test case to check thrown errors, as part of our wider work on helping you use custom errors (T405114 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405114). We also provided the ability to add and remove local keys for complex, typed Objects (T405082 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405082) to help with custom error handling. More on this area is coming soon.

The view mode for HTML fragments now disables the editor, rather than confusingly letting you edit content (T403244 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T403244). We no longer try to find the label of a string input to a Function call that happens to look like a reference (T405085 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405085). We fixed a bug that meant the results details dialog would show the expected and actual test results as text, and not the mysterious " [object Object]" ( T404878 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T404878). We made the request button cancel the current one when clicked a second time, so you don't have multiple requests at once (T397831 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397831).

As part of Wikimedia-wide language support work, we have added a new language Hyam Z1980/jab https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z1980 (T405473 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405473). News in Types: RGBA colour

We introduced a new type to Wikifunctions for representing RGBA colour values https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28579. This follows a community proposal https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Type_proposals/RGBA_color made by infernostars https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/User:Infernostars, and with a lot of supporters voting for it.

RGBA colour values consist of four values, each between 0 and 1. The first three values are for the intensity of the three primary colours red, green and blue, and the fourth value provides the “alpha channel”, or transparency, of the colour value, with 0 being fully transparent and 1 being fully opaque.

The catalogue of functions already has a whole section full of colour functions https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Catalogue/Colour_functions, and we are looking forward to how this will develop given the new type. WikiCon 2025 in Potsdam (German) on 3-5 October

This weekend, from September 3 to 5, is WikiCon 2025 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon%202025 in Potsdam. It is a hybrid event for and by the German Wikimedia community. Community members Hogü-456 https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/User:Hog%C3%BC-456 and Ameisenigel https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/User:Ameisenigel are presenting *Wikifunctions & Abstrakte Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon%202025/Programm/Wikifunctions%20&%20Abstrakte%20Wikipedia* at the WikiCon on Sunday morning 9 am local time. We are looking forward to a lively and informative session! Thanks to Hogü and Ameisenigel for hosting the session, and thanks to the WikiCon organizers for preparing WikiCon! Recording of Wikimedia CEE talk by Cory Massaro

Last week was the Wikimedia CEE 2025 meeting https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%20CEE%20Meeting%202025 in Thessaloniki. Cory Massaro https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/User:CMassaro_(WMF) presented *What Can Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia Do for You? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%20CEE%20Meeting%202025/Submissions/What%20Can%20Wikifunctions%20and%20Abstract%20Wikipedia%20Do%20for%20You%3F*. A recording including the talk https://www.youtube.com/live/YSnCtUACryM, with a lively discussion, is available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/live/YSnCtUACryM. Thanks to the organizers of the meeting for providing a recording, and thanks to Cory for the talk! WikiConference North America in New York City on 16-19 October

This year’s WikiConference North America https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2025/Main_Page will be on 16-19 October 2025 in New York City. On 18 October 2025 at 3pm local time community member Mahir Morshed https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/User:Mahir256 will present the session *How Different Languages Contribute to Abstract Wikipedia Content's Potential https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions:2025/How_Different_Languages_Contribute_to_Abstract_Wikipedia_Content%27s_Potential*. We are looking forward to an interesting and engaging session! Thanks to Mahir for hosting the session, and thanks to the WikiConference organizers for preparing WikiCon NA! Fresh Functions weekly: 23 new Functions

This week we had 23 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!

- String ("ZID") from quoted Reference (Z28467) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28467 - length of Wikidata item (Z28479) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28479 - Filter statements by year (Z28482) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28482 - Get values from Wikidata enum (Z6896) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z6896 - days until next Easter (Z28495) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28495 - days since last Easter (Z28498) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28498 - convert Wikidata quantity to compatible unit (Z28509) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28509 - filter statements by qualifiers (Z28513) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28513 - display day of year in German (Z28539) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28539 - filter statements by property type (Z28548) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28548 - multiply quantity by rational without rounding (Z28549) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28549 - quantities are equivalent (including ~bounds) (Z28553) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28553 - French infinitive from past participle (Z28562) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28562 - percentile of float64 list (Z28565) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28565 - Gregorian dates have same month (Z28570) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28570 - same RGBA color (Z28580) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28580 - make opaque (Z28587) https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z28587

A complete list of all functions sorted by when they were created https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:ListObjectsByType?type=Z8&orderby=latest is available.