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
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.
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
Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks
Help newer contributors understand the status and rationale behind a moderation decision
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subscribe to non–level-2 sections | Unassigned | System change | All projects | November 20, 2024 | Open |
| Créer des planches illustratives dans le Wiktionnaire grâce aux données structurées (P2677) | Unassigned | Feature request | Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary | November 19, 2024 | Submitted |
| Taille des zones dynamiques dans Wikisource | Unassigned | Feature request | Wikisource | November 19, 2024 | Submitted |
| Disallow or restrict non-confirmed users from cross-wiki uploading files to Commons | Unassigned | System change | All projects | November 19, 2024 | Submitted |
| Make individual categories editable in Visual Editor | Unassigned | System change | Wikipedia | November 19, 2024 | Open |