Community Liaisons/Product Surveys/Ideas
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This is an ongoing list of ideas which have been submitted so that anyone can see which ideas are being entered into the poll. Only ideas which have been entered into the AllOurIdeas poll will be entered here so that anyone can review them. Please do not add new ideas here, but do feel free to comment on the Discussion page. Some "further information" may be a request for clarity
English Wikipedia
edit| Submitted idea | Added? | Why/Why not? |
|---|---|---|
| Reflinks - semi-automatically adds meta-info to bare references | Yes | |
| CopyVios - copyright violation detector | Yes | |
| revisionjumper - powerful tools for browsing diffs and histories | Yes | |
| Page stats - e.g. http://stats.grok.se versus X!’s articleinfo | Yes | |
| Twinkle - quick support for maintenance tasks | Yes | |
| HotCat - easily remove, change, add categories | Yes | |
| Edit counter - e.g. X!’s EC | Yes | |
| PrepBio - helps to generate infobox templates for biographies | Yes | |
| FlickrFree - shows free, recently uploaded images, ready for transfer to Commons | Yes | |
| QuickIntersection - fast and simple category tree intersection | Yes | |
| Central Reference Store - transclusion of references from WikiData IDs to make articles more readable | No | Not an existing tool/gadget |
| Bring the few good things from VE to Wikitext: the template editor, the file selector, and perhaps the reference tool | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Search web sources in a reflist | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Peer reviewer program - checks articles against Featured Article criteria: http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/view/Peer_reviewer | Yes | |
| Reflinks should be automated to add data from the web | No | Already entered |
| add gre gmat sat words as a category in wiktionary | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| extend mobile wishlist for wiktionary | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| local social mobile | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| more images and videos | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| my wishlist for keeping track of pages. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget (But see watchlist wishlist) |
| Project Management Software used by WMF itself in order to inform WMF better when newly developed software and facilities should be released | No | Not a specfic tool or gadget |
| Anti-copivio - tool, shows you percent of copivio text from chosen website to Wikipedia article | No | Already entered |
| WikiEditor | Yes | |
| Some sort of shadow box that shows images larger/full-size over current page either when either clicked or hovering over thumbnails. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Please find the real worker to train them and give admin ship for publishing or real worker gonna loose in every situation. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Please find the real worker to train them and give admin ship for publishing. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Always my suggestion is please find the real worker to train them and give admin ship for publishing this is the thing. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| email the creator for confermation | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Contact through email | No | Not a specific tool or gadget (already exists) |
| All the best way to i'v wrote before | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| find real people who are really working and train them | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| by there Phone IMEI | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| ok | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Please find the real person and support them by there needs | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Refine the tool (if it exists) that helps us find all these tools that we never heard of! | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Refine the tool (assuming it exists) that shows all the contributions a specified editor has made to the current article. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget (use 500 revisions, and ctrl-f) |
| Refine wikiblame to show how a given sentence or paragraph has evolved over time (and which editor made which change). | Yes | added as wikiblame/xtools' blame) |
| Vada - Anti-vandalism, cleaning in-browser tool | Yes | |
| Ask less questions. Try making them different, it's less likely to bore me into quitting this questionaire | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Syntax highlighter - Use color to highlight elements of wikicode | Yes | |
| Why does this fucking thing keep asking me the same questions? | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Copy to Commons via WMFLabs Commons Helper | Yes | |
| Please, please, please fix the Edit counter!! It's great....it just breaks a lot! | No | Already entered |
| Bugs 15017, 25602, 49132, 49133, 49134, 70385, 10094, 10453, 11, 11127, 11259, 11374, 12306, 12363, 12401, 13025, 13064, 13070, 13291, 13619 | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Neither is of interest | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Will this ever end? I've been clicking on this survey for a long time and it seems like it will never end. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| CropTool, lossless cropping tool for Commons Images | Yes | |
| Wikidata powered structured infoboxes | No | Not a specific tool or gadget / Already in development |
| It is not at all clear whether one can vote for just one, or both. Please improve. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Please see the bot here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EranBot | No | Already entered (all copyvio tools are treated as a group) |
| We need the WMF working on the "copy and paste" detection bot. Rates of plagiarism of high :-( | No | Already entered (all copyvio tools are treated as a group) |
| Ability to watchlist a talkpage thread—although Erik has already said this is non-trivial (but possible). | No | Not an existing tool/gadget |
| Chrome extension that automatically formats the page into {{citation}} format, and archives the URL if web-based | No | Not an existing tool/gadget (but covered by Cite4wiki, below) |
| Silence option - let users silence other users so the latter can't leave pings or talkpage messages for the former | No | Not an existing tool/gadget |
| 'Facilitator' flag that lets users protect pages/files from deletion and users from being blocked | No | Not an existing tool/gadget |
| Up/downvote comments on talkpages (mainly to gray out downvoted ones a la hackernews) | No | Not an existing tool/gadget |
| A custom userpage design tool for those of us unskilled enough to build our own userpage with internet coding. | No | Not an existing tool/gadget |
| A non MediaViewer tool to keep users from having to use the device. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| I would like to see improvements in the Expand Citations tool. | Yes | (added as "Citation expander gadget") |
| Cite4Wiki -- browser add-on to automatically create citations from current web page | Yes | |
| The many bugs that are still open in Phabricator ... please solve those issues first, they are BUGS REPORTED by PEOPLE | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Better recognition of volunteer software developers. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Moreuse of donated hardware / virtual machines. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Faster page loading.... more local to the user squid caching. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Better methodsfor COI declaration. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Volunteer recognition tools - who is the major contributor? | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| I'd like to see improvements to DabSolver ............ User:PKT | Yes | added as "Dab Solver (fixes links to disambiguation pages |
| Reference archive finder/creator tool | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| citation re-use tools | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| RefToolbar - Dialog boxes to make inserting reference templates easier | No | Already in development |
| Incorporate Twinkle as an official gadget of the site, add more functions, fix bugs, etc | No | Already entered! |
| None of the above. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| kill MediaViewer and Flow | No | out of scope |
| Referencing tools - reflinks, checklinks, etc | Yes | added as: Checklinks - an external link access-status checker |
| Image adder. Add images based on commons categories, gecoding or images used on the same article in other languages. | No | Not an existing tool or gadget |
| Flow - a new way to hold discussions | No | Already in development |
| A Visual Editor would be a good idea, but only if it was designed to work on old PCs. The existing Visual Editor is not fit for purpose. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Reduce edit conflicts. There are several easy fixes on Bugzilla that are won't fixes because they only drive away newbies. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Twinkle is good for welcoming, but it is part of our biggest problem - the shift from fixing things to templating them for others to fix | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Hotcat works fine, please don't change it as half the WMF developments mean that software won't work on my old PC and I use Hotcat a lot. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Rangeblock calculator | Yes | |
| Stop administrators taking pride in deleting other peoples articles. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Shadow namespaces - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Shadow_namespaces | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Duplication Detector | No | Already entered |
| map drawer: encode geographical coordinates suitable for KML/template use to map non-point features like roads, trails, etc. | Reviewing | |
| Template finder: a tool to help quickly locate templates based on purpose, namespace, related articles, history, and popularity. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| PrepPlace - a tool like PrepBio, except for places, not biographies | No | Not an existing tool/gadget (but noted as a feature request) |
| ProofreadPage - per-page scan transcription and transclusion assistance on Wikisource | Yes | |
| Match and split tool (User:Phe-bot) - match & split text transcriptions by page scans on Wikisource | Yes | |
| Redirect image links to Commons for files that are hosted there | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| GoogleTrans -open a translation popup for the selected text or the word under the cursor when pushing the shift button | No | Already in development |
| GregU/dashes.js - A tool for easily fixing dashes | Yes | |
| Hotcat - tool for adding categories | No | Already entered! |
| Cross-platform version of AWB (i.e. AWB for Mac OS, for starters). | Yes | added as: AWB - autowikibrowser, a semi-automated MediaWiki editor |
| Citation bot - maintains, expands, and fixes broken citation templates. Exists but needs an active developer. | Yes | |
| Flow | No | Already in development |
| VisualEditor | No | Already in development |
| allow thumb to be a crop of image, without having to create&upload a separate cropped img e.g. syntax for begin/end X %, begin/end Y % | No | Not an existing tool/gadget |
| Fixing X! Tools article info and edit count so that it isn't broken all of the time | No | Already entered |
| A more reliable tool server that monitors tools and restarts them when they stop working. | No | Not an existing tool/gadget |
| Better citation creation and editing tools are much more important than either of these. | No | Not an existing tool/gadget (but addressed elsewhere) |
| A filter that automatically blocks an account until unlocked upon more than three copyvios being detected | No | Not an existing tool/gadget |
| Most important tool we could have: One that is really smart at scraping and creating formatted, populated citations from URLs given to it. | No | Already in development |
| The watchlist | No | See talk Page |
| Revert back to Monobook as the default as it's many times better than Vector and make Vector an opt-in skin. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Improve the mobile ui, make it possible to disable it. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| NavPopups - article previews/editing function popups when hovering over links | Yes | |
| Defaultsummaries - prewritten edit summaries in a dropdown box | Yes | |
| Tab2Wiki - converts tsv-tables (i.e. copied from Excel) to Wikitext tables | Yes | |
| URL decoder - fix %xx character encoding | Yes | |
| ImageAnnotator - add/view notes and links overlayed on images | Yes | |
| derivativeFX - helps to upload derivative works from Wikimedia Commons | Yes | |
| CrossCats - find relevant categories based on other languages | Yes | |
| GLAMourus - keep track of Commons images used on other projects | Yes | |
| JSL - JavaScript Standard Library - compatibility library for browsers | Yes | |
| dictionaryLookupHover - interwiki Wiktionary popups | Yes | |
| RegexMenuFramework - a sidebar menu of user-defined regex tools | Yes | |
| metadata - display quality assessment metadata [Only for a few wikis] | Yes | |
| Rechtschreibpruefung and Corrector ortográfico - spellcheck | Yes | |
| CheckWiki | Reviewing | |
| Well, I voted for Greg dashes. I can't live without that one. | Reviewing | |
| Reinstate an article feedback tool (the rate this page version 4 I think) | ||
| upload wizard | No | Already in development |
| a page search, which is filtered by multiple criteria. etc:contributions of certain users, between date A and B, including the text "xxx" | Reviewing | |
| I want restoration of the bot (before July '14) that was used to fix dab links - it used to provide a direct link to the dab page for change | Reviewing | |
| Reinstate Wikiviewstats, which hasn't worked for months | ||
| Replace the database reports. Nothing speaks louder of a project in decline than this page, with its prominent "Many reports are broken" banner and its long list of useful reports which no longer run, whether marked as "broken" or not | Not a specific tool or gadget, see Discussion Page |
Spanish language Wikipedia
edit| Submitted idea | Added? | Why/Why not? |
|---|---|---|
| FlickrFree - muestra imágenes libres recién subidas, listas para ser transferidas a Commons | Si | |
| ImageAnnotator - agregar/mirar notas y enlaces sobrepuestos en imágenes | Si | |
| HotCat - eliminar, cambiar y agregar categorías fácilmente | Si | |
| CopyVios - detector de violación de derechos de autor | Si | |
| PrepBio - ayuda a generar plantillas de fichas para biografías | Si | |
| Twinkle - apoyo inmediato para tareas de mantenimiento | Si | |
| Popups de navegación - ventanas emergentes para previsualizar y editar artículos enlazados. | Si | |
| Tab2Wiki - convierte hojas tabuladas (ej. copiadas de Excel) a tablas de Wikitext | Si | |
| Corrector ortográfico | Si | |
| Contador de ediciones - ej. X!'s EC | Si | |
| none, both are useless and unnecesary | Si | |
| QuickIntersection - intersección rápida y sencilla de árboles de categorías | Si | |
| CrossCats - encuentre categorías relevantes basadas en otros idiomas | Si | |
| Defaultsummaries - resúmenes de edición escritos de antemano en un cuadro desplegable | Si | |
| RegexMenuFramework - menú lateral de herramientas de expresión regular definidas por el usuario | Si | |
| Estadísticas de páginas - ej. http://stats.grok.se contra X!’s articleinfo | Si | |
| revisionjumper - herramientas potentes para consultar revisiones e historiales | Si | |
| GLAMourus - hace seguimiento de imágenes de Commons utilizadas en otros proyectos | Si | |
| derivativeFX - ayuda a subir trabajos derivados de Wikimedia Commons | Si | |
| URL decoder - reparar %xx en la codificación de caracteres | Si | |
| metadata - mostrar metadatos de evaluación de calidad [solamente en algunos wikis] | Si | |
| dictionaryLookupHover - ventanas emergentes de Wiktionary en otros wikis | Si | |
| JSL - JavaScript Standard Library - biblioteca de compatibilidad para buscadores | Si | |
| Reflinks - agregación semi-automàtica de metadatos a referencias mínimas | Si | |
| Un programa de reconocimiento de plantillas por categoría para buscar artículos que necesiten ser wikificados, fusionados, por categoría | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Localizar imágenes utilizables en Wikipedia/Commons. Algo parecido a lo propuesto con Flicker ¿Y Google, no se deja? | Si | |
| Viewer of spheric panoramas (those offering a roundabout view in all direction of a location and can be steered with the mouse) | No | Not a specific tool or gadge |
| Popups de navegación - ventanas emergentes para previsualizar y editar artículos enlazados. | No | Already added! |
| Una herramienta similar al DisamAssist en todas las wikis | Si | |
| La forma de incluir las versiones en otros idiomas de un artículo. Creo que como era antes era más fácil y rápido | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Los Popups de navegación, no me funcionan hace como 8 meses | No | Already added! |
| Wikidata acabará con los árboles de categorías. No hay que perder el tiempo en ellos | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| none, both are useless and unnecesary | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Para agilizar la carga de contenido: deberían eliminar los abundantes comentarios que hay en los escrips | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |
| Mejorar este tipo de encuestas para que no parezcan absurdas. | No | Not a specific tool or gadget |