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| 2 | title: What we're working on | |
| 3 | tags: [About] | |
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| 6 | Wiki Forge grows in three stages, each with more people than the last: | |
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| 8 | :::table[Release stages] | |
| 9 | Stage, Who, What happens to data | |
| 10 | Pre-alpha (now), The founders, Can be wiped and reloaded at any time | |
| 11 | Alpha, Friends and family, Can still be wiped | |
| 12 | Beta, Anyone who wants to try it, Kept: we migrate rather than wipe | |
| 13 | ::: | |
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| 15 | ## Focus now | |
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| 17 | The aim of the alpha is a handful of real wikis with real editors. That means the work right now goes into what a small crew needs to build a wiki quickly and well: | |
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| 19 | - **Writing:** a fast editor with live preview, and syntax that new editors pick up without a manual. | |
| 20 | - **Building blocks:** [[Platform components]], wiki-made [[Writing components|components]] and [[Wiki Data]], so a wiki can have proper infoboxes, navboxes and stat tables. | |
| 21 | - **Getting content in:** uploading many images at once, and later importing from other wikis. | |
| 22 | - **Keeping it healthy:** roles, review for new editors, rollback, blocks, and a public moderation log. See [[Editing and moderation]]. | |
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| 24 | ## Why this order | |
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| 26 | A wiki platform lives or dies by whether communities choose to build on it. Speed, a pleasant editor and good tools for the first crew matter more early on than features for huge wikis, which come once real wikis show what they need. | |
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| 28 | ## Later | |
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| 30 | Bigger pieces we expect to need, in rough order: importing from MediaWiki and Fandom, queries that build lists and tables from the data pages pass to components, and the steps needed to open the beta (a legal entity, a copyright process). |