Community Wishlist

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The Community Wishlist is a forum for Wikimedia project contributors to share ideas or "Wishes" to improve our product and technology, and then collaborate with each other and the Wikimedia Foundation to prioritize and solve these opportunities together. In order to build sustainable, multi-generational software, the Wikimedia Foundation needs to hear from, and collaborate with volunteers about challenges and opportunities to improve our product and technology.

How it works:

Volunteers can submit a wish (feature request, bug fix, system change) at any time. We encourage users to submit a wish in their native language.
Submitted wishes can be reviewed, commented, and edited by fellow volunteers, and accepted by the Foundation.
The Foundation then reviews all new wishes, identifies common themes across wishes, and turns these themes into focus areas. Focus areas help us move beyond individual solutions, which might only work for certain use cases, and instead identify and solve as many of the biggest, most impactful problems as possible.
Contributors may support and comment on focus areas, which will then be adopted by Wikimedia Foundation teams, Community Tech, affiliates, or volunteer developers.

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📢 Latest Updates

December 16, 2024: Better stitching between Commons and other projects is open for discussion and support

The Community Wishlist has curated a focus area from requests to improve connection between Wikimedia Commons and other Wikimedia projects. The focus area is titled Better stitching between Commons and other projects. It is also open for discussion and support.

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Some Focus areas

Below is the first batch of focus areas. Each focus area is comprised of three or more wishes that share an underlying problem.

In progress

Template recall and discovery

We're building a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, to increase dialog usage and the number of templates added.

Supported by: 25 people

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Submitted

Help content reviewers more efficiently manage their repetitive tasks

Help content reviewers more efficiently manage their repetitive tasks, so they can focus more on editing articles or other on-wiki activities. We'll know we're successful if we can cut down on the number of edits in review and improve moderator satisfaction.

Supported by: 22 people

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Submitted

Media formats, editing, and display

Volunteers noted the importance of supporting new file formats and improving features and tools that can allow users to upload high-efficiency images to Wikimedia sites, have an easier editing experience and improved use of media players.

Supported by: 19 people

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Submitted

Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks

Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks, so they can more efficiently review and uphold the quality of content on their wikis. We'll know we're successful if this work improves editor or patroller satisfaction and reduces the "queue" of things to review.

Supported by: 13 people

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All focus areas

Recent wishes

These are the recently submitted wishes. You can learn more about each individual wish, and see other wishes in the same focus areas. If you don't find what you are searching for, you are welcomed to submit your wish for consideration.

Title	Focus area	Type	Projects	Date (UTC)	Status^?
Automatically create videos based on media in Wikipedia articles	Create new consumer experiences for learning from / engaging with Wikipedia content	Feature request	Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons	2024-12-24T08:46:27.000ZDecember 24, 2024	Open
Créer des planches illustratives dans le Wiktionnaire grâce aux données structurées (P2677)	Media formats, editing, and display	Feature request	Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary	2024-12-24T05:18:15.000ZDecember 24, 2024	Open
Wikistoryboards	Create new consumer experiences for learning from / engaging with Wikipedia content	Feature request	Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikipedia, Wikiversity	2024-12-23T19:42:39.000ZDecember 23, 2024	Open
I don't need all the special characters, but it can be hard to find the ones I want	Unassigned	System change	All projects	2024-12-21T03:17:05.000ZDecember 21, 2024	Open
Sorting of Categories	Unassigned	Feature request	Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons	2024-12-20T20:25:03.000ZDecember 20, 2024	Open

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