Wiki Forge grows in three stages, each with more people than the last:

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 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).