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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

October 27, 2024: Article Creation focus area is open for discussion and support

The Community Wishlist has created a collection of wishes and suggestions over time, highlighting the need for better support and guidance for newcomers as they create articles, while also aiming to reduce frustration and reverts. These ideas have been grouped under the Article Creation Guidance Focus Area.

All who are interested in the improvement of newcomer workflows are invited to explore these wishes, join the discussion on the focus area's collective talk page, and support if this topic resonates with you.

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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

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: 12 people

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Submitted

Help newer contributors understand the status and rationale behind a moderation decision

Help newer contributors understand the status and rationale behind a moderation decision, so they are more likely to make additional contributions. We know we're successful when newer contributors are more likely to make a second (or tenth) edit, and when their edits are more efficiently reviewed.

Supported by: 8 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
Make individual categories editable in Visual Editor	Unassigned	System change	Wikipedia	2024-11-16T04:12:04.000ZNovember 16, 2024	Open
Make it easier for editors to design pages and templates according to the Codex design system	Unassigned	Feature request	All projects	2024-11-15T23:46:14.000ZNovember 15, 2024	Open
Revamp pagination / page navigation	Unassigned	System change	Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, Wikifunctions, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Meta-Wiki	2024-11-15T23:45:43.000ZNovember 15, 2024	Open
Modification of RecentChanges button	Unassigned	System change	All projects	2024-11-15T11:48:11.000ZNovember 15, 2024	Submitted
Watchlist - identify Structured Data changes	Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks	Feature request	Wikimedia Commons	2024-11-15T10:40:16.000ZNovember 15, 2024	Open

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