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title: What we're working on
tags: [About]
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Wiki Forge grows in three stages, each with more people than the last:

:::table[Release stages]
Stage, Who, What happens to data
Pre-alpha (now), The founders, Can be wiped and reloaded at any time
Alpha, Friends and family, Can still be wiped
Beta, Anyone who wants to try it, Kept: we migrate rather than wipe
:::

## Focus now

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:

- **Writing:** a fast editor with live preview, and syntax that new editors pick up without a manual.
- **Building blocks:** [[Platform components]], wiki-made [[Writing components|components]] and [[Wiki Data]], so a wiki can have proper infoboxes, navboxes and stat tables.
- **Getting content in:** uploading many images at once, and later importing from other wikis.
- **Keeping it healthy:** roles, review for new editors, rollback, blocks, and a public moderation log. See [[Editing and moderation]].

## Why this order

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.

## Later

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).