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Community Wishlist Survey has been renamed!
Thank you for participating in the refresh of the Wishlist! The project's name has been changed from Community Wishlist Survey to Community Wishlist. Learn more. |
July 1, 2024: The Community Wishlist is re-opening Jul 15, 2024. Here's what to expect, and how to prepare.
The Community Wishlist helps communities surface technical and user experience problems and opportunities, so that the Wikimedia Foundation and communities can prioritize and solve these issues together.
Like in years past, contributors can surface problems and opportunities by submitting “Wishes” year-round. The Foundation will identify patterns between wishes and propose “Focus Areas” of wishes that share a collective problem, and contributors are encouraged to comment and vote on Focus Areas to highlight the areas in need of prioritization. Then, the Foundation, affiliates, and volunteer developers can adopt Focus Areas and collaborate with contributors to solve these problems.
The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to integrating Focus Areas into our Annual Planning for 2025–26. Focus Areas align to hypotheses (specific projects, typically taking up to one quarter) and / or Key Results (broader projects taking up to one year).
The Community Wishlist reopens on July 15 2024 and will remain open.
How to participate
We encourage all volunteers to participate in the Community Wishlist. Volunteers may submit wishes, edit each other's wishes, and comment on a wish's talk page. Volunteers may comment or vote on a Focus Area, or suggest technical contributors. Our hope is that volunteers build up each other's ideas and work together to identify the biggest and most impactful technical needs and opportunities.
How to submit a wish
Participating in the new wishlist is as simple as submitting a wish. Using our new intake form, you can submit Wishes in any language, via Wikitext or the Visual Editor. You can submit as many wishes as you'd like, as well as edit or comment on wishes submitted by others. Here's how to get started:
- Navigate to the Community Wishlist home page and click “Submit Wish”. Note that users must be logged into MetaWiki to submit a wish. You can submit in any language.
- Complete the following required fields
- Name: a name for your wish
- Description: the problem you want to solve.
- Type: a feature request, bug report, system change, or something else.
- Project: Wiki projects associated with the wish.
- Affected users: A description of users who'd benefit from the wish being solved
- Users may optionally share a Phabricator ticket.
- Press Submit. That's it!
I've submitted a wish, now what?
The Foundation will review Wishes on a rolling basis, and mark them with a “status”. The options are:
- Submitted: These are new wishes. Often, the Foundation will ask clarifying questions on the Wish's talk page.
- Open: wishes that articulate a clear problem or user need, and are marked for translation
- Archived: most often, these are wishes advocating for non-technical policy changes or that are too niche.
- In progress: a team, affiliate, or volunteer developer has adopted the Wish and is working on it
Starting in August, Community Tech will begin grouping wishes into Focus Areas. Community members may vote on a Focus Area, from which the Wikimedia Foundation, developers at an affiliate organization, or volunteer developers may identify and prioritize possible next steps. Note: not all wishes will align to a Focus Area.
How to write a good wish
The best wishes articulate a problem that the proposer wants to solve and leaves volunteers and staff more space for creative problem-solving together. They illustrate empathy and show a user's challenges. This framing helps ensure that wishes can scale from one Wiki to another, and avoids the pitfalls of a wish being too niche or specific, where someone may disagree with the implementation.
In the example below, both the problem-led and solution-led examples articulate a need to improve the experience for new editors. The problem-led example leaves the solution open-ended and invites collaboration, whereas the solution-led example might get “tripped up” by contributors who resist renaming a user sandbox. Thus, the problem-led wish might have a higher chance of being assigned to a Focus Area.
–– Community Tech
| Problem-led Wish (encouraged) | Solution-led Wish (discouraged) | |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Make it easier for newcomers to create their first article | Rename sandbox to “Draft editor” |
| Description | Especially for new editors, it can be hard to find a user sandbox. Once they find their sandbox, new editors see a number of disclaimers that make it hard to gain confidence in writing a good quality article. This impacts a newcomer's ability to onboard to Wikipedia and feel confident as a contributor.  |
The term “Sandbox” is confusing to new users. Let's rename it to “Draft editor” so that people are more likely to open a draft article. |
| Type | System change | Feature request |
| Project | Wikipedia | Wikipedia |
| Users affected | New editors and, downstream, patrollers who review new edits | Editors |
| Phab ticket | optional | T123456 |
Can't wait until July 15?
If you feel compelled to start drafting Wishes, we encourage you to write them in your Sandbox or editor of choice (we can help you review them), and submit wishes through our Intake Form, when the Wishlist reopens.
Community Wishlist Survey is now Community Wishlist
Thank you everyone who has participated in the restructuring and rebranding conversations of the Wishlist so far.
Regarding the renaming, based on your feedback, we will keep the 'Community Wishlist' and remove 'Survey'.
Please read more about the renaming, check out the vote results and learn more about the re-opening of the Community Wishlist on July 15, 2024, in our latest update.
June 2024: Update 4
Renaming the Wishlist
We realized that we've outgrown the name “Community Wishlist Survey” in our redesign efforts. With a new approach, we think it's the right time to choose a new name.
We have provided some renaming rationale and also engaged the community in discussions.
Currently, we have opened the polls for the community to choose a name. You are invited to vote.
–– Jack Wheeler, Lead Community Tech Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
June 2024: Update 3
Hello everyone!
Community engagement around the Wishlist's redesign is still in progress to help make decisions ahead of the relaunch of the survey in July 2024. The revised survey will need a new name that reflects its new direction. You are invited to help choose a name.
There are some early renaming ideas like Wikimedia Opportunities Registry, Wikimedia Collaboration Hub and ImagineWiki. Please join the discussions and suggest your own name if need be.
Looking forward to hearing from you on the discussion page.
–– Community Tech
Maggio 2024: Aggiornamento 2
Riepilogo delle modifiche in arrivo
- La nuova wishlist sarà pubblicata a luglio e rimarrà disponibile per tutto l'anno.
- I volontari possono esprimere un desiderio nella loro lingua di preferenza e non hanno bisogno di conoscere il Wikitext.
- I volontari potranno inviare desideri, rivedere desideri, modificare desideri esistenti e discutere di desideri tra loro e con il personale della Foundation.
- I partecipanti voteranno su "Focus Areas"
- I desideri possono essere classificati per progetto/i e per "tipo" (bug, richiesta di funzionalità, ottimizzazione, altro).
- Alla fine avremo una dashboard che permetterà agli utenti di cercare i desideri e di filtrarli per progetto o per tipo di desiderio.
Ciao a tutti,
Grazie a tutti coloro che hanno fornito feedback nelle pagine di discussione, su Discord, nelle chiamate e nelle e-mail. Volevo condividere alcuni aggiornamenti sui progressi del design e sulle decisioni prese per il lancio della nuova lista dei desideri, che stiamo pianificando di riaprire in una prima forma il 15 luglio 2024.
Definizione delle caratteristiche
La nuova wishlist avrà alcune caratteristiche che favoriscono l'accessibilità e l'inclusione:
- La nuova wishlist è in apertura a luglio e rimarrà aperta tutto l'anno.
- I volontari possono esprimere un desiderio nella loro lingua di preferenza e non hanno bisogno di conoscere il Wikitext.
- I volontari potranno inviare desideri, rivedere desideri, modificare desideri esistenti e discutere di desideri tra loro e con il personale della Foundation.
- I partecipanti voteranno su "Focus Areas" invece che su singoli desideri.
Introduzione a "Focus Areas"
La nuova wishlist inizierà a sperimentare le "Focus Areas," gruppi di più di 3 desideri individuali su uno scenario di problematiche simili. I volontari possono esaminare e sostenere le Focus Areas per segnalare le loro priorità; Community Tech e i team WMF competenti esamineranno e adotteranno le Focus Areas su cui lavorare. Inoltre, anche gli affiliati e gli sviluppatori volontari possono adottare e lavorare sulle Focus Areas.
Le Focus Areas ci aiutano a identificare e risolvere il maggior numero possibile di problemi più grandi e di maggiore impatto. Invece di esaudire un desiderio, uniremo i punti e dedicheremo lo stesso tempo a soddisfare più di 3 desideri risolvendo il problema di fondo.
Ecco un esempio tangibile: Aggiungere rapidamente i template preferiti, Aggiungere rapidamente un infobox, Selezionare i template per categorie e Modelli di facile accesso sono tutte proposte individuali che mirano a risolvere un problema di fondo: "è troppo complicato trovare e inserire i template che voglio." Invece di risolvere ogni desiderio - o di risolverne solo uno - stiamo raggruppando questi desideri in una "Focus Area" con "Miglioramenti al Template Picker."
Ecco come funziona il processo nella nuova Wishlist:
Esamineremo insieme i desideri per generare delle Focus Areas
- Lo staff di WMF e i volontari interessati esamineranno e identificheranno gli schemi tra i desideri per suggerire aree di interesse. Le aree di interesse "raggrupperanno" i desideri simili in uno spazio problematico, proponendo soluzioni. Poiché le Focus Areas sono più direttamente collegate al modo in cui i team WMF adotteranno e daranno priorità al lavoro futuro, i volontari potranno sostenere solo le Focus Areas.
I team WMF definiranno le priorità e selezioneranno le Focus Areas da affrontare
- I gruppi che lavorano alla wishlist, compresi i team di prodotto e di ingegneria di WMF, sceglieranno le aree di interesse su cui lavorare in base al supporto della comunità, alle competenze dei team o dei volontari, alle risorse disponibili e all'impatto potenziale dell'area di interesse. Il Community Tech lavorerà all'interno di WMF per aiutare gli altri team di prodotto ad aggiungere le Focus Area alle loro roadmap insieme al lavoro prioritario nel piano annuale di WMF per quell'anno. Misureremo il successo in base al numero di aree di interesse adottate e completate durante un determinato anno fiscale.
Focus Area Collaborazione e consegna
- I gruppi che lavorano su una Focus Area collaboreranno con i volontari - compresi quelli che hanno suggerito, commentato o sostenuto l'argomento o il desiderio individuale - per costruire le giuste soluzioni di prodotto sulla base delle proposte di desiderio presentate e di ulteriori ricerche.
Mi rendo conto che questi cambiamenti proposti per la Wishlist saranno controversi per alcuni, dal momento che molti di voi hanno speso molte energie nella Wishlist e hanno forti sentimenti su come il lavoro dovrebbe essere prioritario. Riteniamo che i desideri individuali debbano essere discussi e analizzati, e che concentrando le nostre energie sull'articolazione e il sostegno delle Focus Areas, saremo in grado di avere un impatto maggiore - insieme.
La discussione è sempre benvenuta. Lasciate i vostri pensieri o le vostre domande sulla pagina di discussione o, in alternativa, unitevi a noi in una conversazione dal vivo, dove condivideremo alcuni dettagli e progetti su Google Meet.
E un ringraziamento speciale a (in ordine sparso): Klein Muçi, Novem Linguae, Bluerasberry, TheDJ, AntiCompositeNumber, Theklan, Sohom Datta, Noé, Xavier Dengra, Townie, Galahad, Ciridae, Robertgarrigos, MER-C, Amadalvarez, Iniquity, Thingofme, GPSLeo e altri per i vostri contributi sulla Wishlist.
PS. Un'anteprima dell'aspetto del modulo di assunzione e delle pagine della Focus Area:
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Un mockup del nuovo modulo di iscrizione all'Indagine sulla Wishlist della comunità -
Un'immagine delle Focus Areas dell'Indagine sulla Wishlist della comunità
–– Jack Wheeler, Responsabile tecnico della comunità, Fondazione Wikimedia
March 2024: Update 1
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Hello everyone,
In January, Community Tech shared some early decisions about changes coming to the Community Wishlist Survey, and soon after, we invited you to participate in ongoing conversations (please join if you haven't yet) about what a new Wishlist survey should look like.
I have also shared my learnings from talking with volunteer contributors and Wikimedia Foundation staff on the same page as the conversations.
So the question is: how do we fulfill more wishes and make more impact for the Movement? We can start by experimenting with these changes:
- The Wishlist should be a forum for volunteers and the Foundation to discuss new ideas and raise awareness of impactful bugs. If we're able to capture all sorts of community needs, large and small at scale, we'll have a clearer picture of volunteer needs, from which we tackle the biggest problems.
- We're going to have lots of wishes, but we need to recognize that not every wish will get an intensive review and response from the Foundation. But we will look at each wish and reply within a reasonable time frame.
- Our goal is to eventually have more engineers focused on fulfilling wishes, in the areas where they have expertise. This should lead to faster, more impactful development. But, as the revised Wishlist process kicks off, it might not feel like much is changing.
- We're not going to close wishes for being “too big” or “too small.” Instead, wishes will remain open so volunteers have an opportunity to work on technical solutions together, even when Foundation teams do not take up that idea. This means that the number of open wishes will grow over time, and that it is treated as an idea space more than a task list.
We want to increase participatory design and achieve the most impact. To do this, we'll need your input.
Preview of the New Wishlist (Potential Modifications)
We're still ironing out the details of the new Wishlist and wishlist process, but I wanted to give you a preview of what's to come. We still plan to launch the pilot Wish intake process by July 1, and will add additional functionality throughout the year.
Key attributes:
- The Wishlist will be open year-round. We won't ever “close” an actionable wish, or flag a wish as too big or too small. The Foundation aims to respond to wishes in a timely manner, and will focus on Wishes that can be technically resolved.
- Logged in users will be able to access a new “Wish form” and submit a wish.
- Users won't need to know Wikitext to submit a wish.
- Wishes can be categorized by project(s) and by “type” (bug, feature request, optimization, other).
- We'll eventually have a dashboard which will allow users to search for wishes and filter by project or wish type.
Currently Exploring:
- Opportunities to integrate with Phabricator
- How we might expose the “status” of a wish
- How the Foundation and community prioritize wishes together
- How to strengthen the role of volunteer developers in granting wishes
- To what degree wishes should be editable after they are submitted
I'm so excited to pilot this new process in July with our volunteers.
In the coming weeks, I'll share our Key Results for the Future of the Wishlist and design directions to solicit feedback.
If you have any feedback on this update, please click the blue button below.
–– Jack Wheeler, Lead Community Tech Manager, Wikimedia Foundation