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Is sillsdev/webonary beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to sillsdev/webonary to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
5
Forks
4
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
59
Avg merge
12h 44m
Merged PRs (30d)
4
Dominant language
PHP
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Oct 1, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
No beginner labels indexed

How to contribute to sillsdev/webonary

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
  3. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Published date not showing on search widget or display-all-sites
    May be free again @phillip-hopper claimed this 40 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    bug

    sillsdev/webonary#953 · 1 assignee ·

  • Change Copyright page to be uneditable by Compilers
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    sillsdev/webonary#946 · 3 comments ·

  • Block search box when password protected
    May be free again @phillip-hopper claimed this 70 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    sillsdev/webonary#945 · 1 assignee ·

  • Update LocalizedLists semantic domain files with trimmed descriptions
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

    sillsdev/webonary#942 · 1 comment ·

  • PWA Apps
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    sillsdev/webonary#909 · 5 comments ·

  • Shortcodes for Sitename and Year
    May be free again @phillip-hopper claimed this 151 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    sillsdev/webonary#907 · 1 assignee ·

  • Error message for Semantic Domain page
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    sillsdev/webonary#881 ·

  • When uploading from FLEx don't delete old Dictionary unless update successful
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    sillsdev/webonary#879 ·

  • Put link to page in comment email
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    sillsdev/webonary#873 ·

  • Use analysis language name for Reversal Index
    May be free again @phillip-hopper claimed this 247 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    sillsdev/webonary#867 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • FLEx Formatting variations causes problems displaying Semantic Domains
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    sillsdev/webonary#829 · 1 comment ·

  • Semantic Domains not showing in Browse view
    May be free again @phillip-hopper claimed this 427 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    bug

    sillsdev/webonary#813 · 12 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Public API for Developers
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    sillsdev/webonary#731 · 1 comment ·

  • Re-do the reversal indexes
    May be free again @phillip-hopper claimed this 280 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    medium priority

    sillsdev/webonary#711 · 1 assignee ·

  • Delete Languages before uploading
    May be free again @phillip-hopper claimed this 690 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    bug

    sillsdev/webonary#710 · 7 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Drop down filter for inflection features
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    sillsdev/webonary#694 ·

  • Research auto-upgrade from MongoDB 5
    May be free again @stevendyk claimed this 865 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    web2

    sillsdev/webonary#686 · 1 assignee ·

  • Increase in limit to number of entries on a page
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    sillsdev/webonary#640 · 1 comment ·

  • Individual entry page should also show nav menu
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    sillsdev/webonary#513 ·

  • Incorrect indentation of subentry in Search Results view
    May be free again @phillip-hopper claimed this 1321 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    bug

    sillsdev/webonary#498 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Create Cloud API endpoint to support chooser box for fields.
    May be free again @johntseng claimed this 1356 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    sillsdev/webonary#481 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • All entries with selected Part of Speech should be returned
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    sillsdev/webonary#478 · 1 comment ·

  • Highlighting should match search results.
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    sillsdev/webonary#477 · 1 comment ·

  • Validate user email address
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    sillsdev/webonary#452 ·

  • Whole word search matches partial word
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    sillsdev/webonary#410 ·

  • Search box alignment for RTL
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    sillsdev/webonary#409 ·

  • Cloud search should weight fields differently
    May be free again @hanatgit claimed this 1259 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement high priority web2

    sillsdev/webonary#406 · 5 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Import expanded schema into cloud database
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    sillsdev/webonary#405 ·

  • Expand Cloud Entry Schema
    May be free again @johntseng claimed this 1494 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    sillsdev/webonary#404 · 1 assignee ·

  • Discrepancy in the number of dictionary entries
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    sillsdev/webonary#400 ·

  • Search Reversal Entries
    May be free again @johntseng claimed this 1564 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    sillsdev/webonary#337 · 1 assignee ·

  • Incorporating an exported htm file of Interlinearized text into Webonary
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    sillsdev/webonary#336 ·

  • Migrate existing WordPress dictionaries into the Cloud/Mongo database
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    sillsdev/webonary#333 · 1 comment ·

  • Setup system monitoring, alerts
    May be free again @stevendyk claimed this 1620 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    sillsdev/webonary#320 · 1 assignee ·

  • Update webonary-cloud-api packages
    Open
    web2

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    sillsdev/webonary#316 · 1 comment ·

  • Right to Left for Search widget
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    sillsdev/webonary#227 · 1 comment ·

  • Images on Webonary
    Open
    Low Priority

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    sillsdev/webonary#226 ·

  • Search results need to be right-aligned in right-aligned language dictionaries
    May be free again @phillip-hopper claimed this 1964 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    bug

    sillsdev/webonary#190 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • develop a dashboard that will show database migration status
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    sillsdev/webonary#148 ·

  • Super Admin role
    Open
    wordpress

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    sillsdev/webonary#107 · 1 comment ·

  • Search Box - Add chooser box for Fields
    Open
    enhancement Search issues

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    sillsdev/webonary#84 · 2 comments ·

  • Disable comments for dictionary entries when in cloud api mode
    Open
    medium priority web2 wordpress

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    sillsdev/webonary#81 · 2 comments ·

  • Show total number of entries in part of speech drop down
    May be free again @hanatgit claimed this 1314 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    bug

    sillsdev/webonary#78 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Semantic Domains tree is expandable, but not collapsible
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    sillsdev/webonary#69 · 1 comment ·

  • User roles and permissions
    May be free again @stevendyk claimed this 1595 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    wordpress

    sillsdev/webonary#37 · 1 assignee ·

  • Filter/sort options for sites
    May be free again @stevendyk claimed this 1595 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    sillsdev/webonary#36 · 1 assignee ·

  • WebMaster/Admin issues
    May be free again @stevendyk claimed this 1595 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    sillsdev/webonary#35 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Statistics page
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    sillsdev/webonary#33 ·

  • Custom lists
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    sillsdev/webonary#32 · 1 comment ·

  • Anthropology Categories view (similar to SD view)
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    sillsdev/webonary#31 ·

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