Community Wishlist
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.
📢 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.
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.
Template recall and discovery
Help content reviewers more efficiently manage their repetitive tasks
Media formats, editing, and display
Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks
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? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikistoryboards | Create new consumer experiences for learning from / engaging with Wikipedia content | Feature request | Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikipedia, Wikiversity | December 25, 2024 | Open |
| 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 | December 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 | December 24, 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 | December 21, 2024 | Open |
| Sorting of Categories | Improve how categories are presented on articles | Feature request | Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons | December 20, 2024 | Open |