Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Results

The Community Wishlist Survey 2023 is over! We thank everyone who participated. Hereunder, we want to share with you the voting results, notes about Larger suggestions, and express our gratitude to those who made outstanding contributions to the survey.

Voting results

Rank	Proposal	Category		Tickets	Status
1	Dark mode	Reading	240	T26070	Done by the Web team for Vector 2022
2	Allow citations to be edited in the references section with VisualEditor	Citations	174	T54750	Done by ESanders (WMF)
3	Display the categories on the mobile site for everyone	Mobile and apps	162	T24660 Related: T73966
4	Notifications for user page edits	Anti-harassment	130	T3876 Related: T296955	Done by Legoktm, ESanders (WMF) and KHarlan (WMF)
5	Quickly add infobox	Editing	129	T55590, T347370	In progress… and now called Template Picker Improvements
6	VisualEditor should use proper names for references	Editing	129	T52568, T92432, T245199
7	Extend "Who Wrote That?" tool to more wikis	Reading	125	T332195 Related: T243711, T270490, T296590, T298007	Done by MusikAnimal (WMF) and Sage (Wiki Ed)
8	Auto-save feature	Editing	124	Related: T57370, T75241	Done by Community Tech-team and now called Edit Recovery
9	Avoid editing conflicts	Editing	124	T329975 Related: T19467	Hackathonable
10	Warn when adding a url reference that matches the SpamBlacklist	Citations	123	T276857 Related: T315072, T327330	In progress… The Editing team's edit check project will include this for VisualEditor.
11	Quickly add favorite and related templates	Editing	116	T55590, T347370	In progress… and now called Template Picker Improvements
12	Prompt for page number(s) for compatible cite sources (e.g. book, journal)	Citations	99	T216817
13	Add notice to Visual Editor that unsourced edits may be reverted	New contributors	99	T300942 Related: T265163
14	Layering/timing of blocks	Admins and patrollers	91	T194697	In progress… see Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Multiblocks for updates.
15	Enable 180°-360° metadata detection and embed/navigate capabilities in Commons/MediaViewer	Multimedia and Commons	91	T151749, T138933, T70719
16	Adding statements on mobile devices	Wikidata	87	T95878
17	Add link to CentralAuth on Special:Contributions	Admins and patrollers	85	T331743 Related: T57473, T140585, T67446	Done by TheresNoTime
18	Support copying references to other languages with the correct format	Translation	84	Related: T222059
19	Add ability to share QR code for a page in any Wikimedia project	Mobile and apps	83	T329973 Related: T242467	Done with some possible follow-ups. See Community Tech/Sharing QR Codes for updates.
20	Auto-merging the identical references in HTML output	Citations	81	Related: T311369, T246960
21	Search bar at preferences	Miscellaneous	81	T313804 Related: T53147	Done by ESanders (WMF)
22	Nested templates in Visual Editor	Editing	78	T52355
23	Clickable map for coordinate locations	Wikidata	75	T329852	Hackathonable
24	Different alphabetical sortings according to languages	Wiktionary	75	T30397
25	Native SVG support	Multimedia and Commons	72	T5593	In progress… by TheDJ
26	Reference requirement for new article creation	New contributors	72	T329942 Related: T265163
27	Visual Editor should automatically map templates when pasting content form other languages	Translation	71	T243150
28	Mobile site or desktop by browser's function	Mobile and apps	70	T60425
29	Make Navigation Popups & Page Previews work cross-wiki	Bots and gadgets	68	T67117 Related: T243820
30	Default collapse statements when they have many values	Wikidata	67	T239820, T158182
31	Allow viewing of edit filter logs for IP ranges	Admins and patrollers	66	T256823 Related: T146628, T188690, T257420
32	Show syntax highlighting on View Source/protected pages	Miscellaneous	66	T301615	Done by MusikAnimal (WMF) as part of the CodeMirror 6 upgrade. You can follow the original project page for updates and deployments.
33	Improve handling of dates in languages other than English	Wikidata	65	T63958, T221097, T214002, T65732, T260699 Related: T167788
34	Provide links to discussions that are stable after discussions get archieved	Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages	64	T273341
35	Allow each wiki and each translatable article to have more than one source language	Translation	64	T329944
36	Notify users when their revision has been approved or rejected	Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages	63	T54510
37	Linking of citing tool with Wikidata	Citations	62	Related: T289287	In progress… by D6194c-1cc
38	Easily add page numbers with "cite" automatic button for books and then easily "reuse" listed book references with/without new page number(s) if needed.	Editing	61	T216817 Related: T321669
39	Block history for individual IPs on ranges	Admins and patrollers	60	T146628 Related: T163562, T206954
40	Advanced sorting on Commons	Multimedia and Commons	60	T329961
41	Inline diffs and inline patrol	Admins and patrollers	59	T53958 Related: T327566
42	Possibility of thanking for more subsequent edits	Miscellaneous	56	Related: T14191
43	Allow user to pin/unpin specific languages	Reading	55	T188401 Related: T301787
44	Content translation: Editing content in wiki syntax	Translation	55
45	Prevent data duplication	Wikidata	55	T157774, T310981, T224333, T270375, T44325
46	Update TemplateStyles CSS rules to current CSS spec versions	Miscellaneous	51	T322482, T320322, T277755
47	Minimize Wikimedia/Wikipedia's risk by enforcing 2FA on 'Mandatory Use User' groups	Anti-harassment	50	T150898, T242031	Related task in progress by Taavi
48	Make Navigation Popups into an Advanced-mode of Page Previews	Bots and gadgets	49	T109796
49	Update Vega to the latest build	Multimedia and Commons	49	T165118	In progress… by Jon (WMF)
50	Utility to attach acccount to all wikis	Admins and patrollers	48		Done by Suffusion of Yellow
51	Custom edit summaries per user	Editing	48	Related: T54174
52	Customization of text	Reading	48	T91201
53	Add the number of items (search results) in "What links here"	Multimedia and Commons	47	T6394
54	Create a button to expand all collapsible elements on a page	Reading	47	T347299	Done by JSherman (WMF)
55	Support for non-Gregorian and non-Julian calendar models on Wikidata	Wikidata	47	T252627
56	Mitigate the damage caused by proxy blocks	Anti-harassment	46	Related: T243863, T265812, T189362, T27000, T309328
57	DabLinks	Bots and gadgets	46		Hackathonable
58	In Spam blacklist, allow sysops to enable blacklisting only on some namespaces	Admins and patrollers	45	Related: T203157
59	Translatable language names	Translation	45	T231755, T231748, T324892, T157809, T256649
60	A more performant bot to replace ListeriaBot	Bots and gadgets	44	Related: T67626, T329380
61	Editable gallery captions in Visual Editor	Editing	44	T190224	Done by ESanders (WMF) and Arlolra
62	Fix CropTool	Multimedia and Commons	44
63	Prevent Flickr2Commons from uploading duplicate files	Multimedia and Commons	44
64	Discussion pages should not use HTML lists	Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages	44	T6521
65	Return to the article when closing the MediaViewer	Reading	44	T241909	Done by Jon (WMF) and Matma Rex
66	Allow access to SDC from other wikis	Multimedia and Commons	42	T238798 Related: T325949
67	Support linking to lexemes in structured data on Commons	Multimedia and Commons	42	T304392
68	Implement Extension:ProofreadPage functionality for Parsiod (aka native support of tag:pages to Parsoid)	Wikisource	42	T319258
69	Add "Sorting order by alphabet" in Special:Search	Search and Categories	41	T40403
70	ContentTranslation for Wikivoyage	Translation	41	T106469, T105171, T322537 Related: T322325
71	Allow grouping of blocks and protections	Admins and patrollers	40
72	Wikipedia logout: Logout confirmation	Miscellaneous	40
73	Communicate local and global announcements through notifications rather than banners	Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages	40	Related: T138572, T52865
74	Sort pages with Chinese Japanese or Korean titles in a more useful order	Search and Categories	40	Related: T47443
75	More languages for editing label	Wikidata	40	T126510
76	Insert attestation using Wikisource as a corpus	Wiktionary	40	T139152, T157802
77	Option to filter bots from the block log	Admins and patrollers	39	T21322
78	Collaborative editing	Editing	39	T3898, T76546, T112984
79	Cookie block exception option for hard IP blocks	Admins and patrollers	38	T306751
80	Make the AbuseFilter edit window resizable and larger by default	Anti-harassment	38	T294856	Done by Od1n and TheresNoTime
81	New users should see the deletion log when visiting a deleted page on English Wikipedia	New contributors	38	T204234	Done by Matma Rex
82	Enabling subscribe action for lower headers for specific pages (prefix)	Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages	38	T275943
83	Voluntary pending changes	Editing	37	Related: T113004
84	Ease the creation of diagrams	Multimedia and Commons	37
85	Instant linking to other articles while reading	Reading	37
86	Allow checkusers to use user-agent variables in Abusefilters	Anti-harassment	36	T234155, T50623 Related: T242825
87	Support ASGI on Toolforge	Bots and gadgets	36	T296729	Done by Wikimedia Cloud Services
88	Enable a search by image in Commons	Multimedia and Commons	36
89	Integrate PageImages with Wikisource	Wikisource	35	T323570
90	Links for preferences	Miscellaneous	34	Related: T295302	In progress… by TheresNoTime
91	Extend formula handling to cope with actuarial notation	Editing	33	T175673
92	Display definitions from Wikisource dictionaries	Wiktionary	33	T240191
93	Edit-war-detecting bot or bots	Bots and gadgets	32		Hackathonable
94	On-wiki notifications for the Watchlist or subscriptions per page	Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages	32	T309855, T263821, T284795
95	Wikibreak/OoO notification autoresponder	Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages	32	Related: T327655, T329052
96	Popup to link to or create a new Wikidata item after creating an article	Wikidata	32	T308059, T178249, T312927
97	Add watchers variable to AbuseFilter	Anti-harassment	31
98	Allow going beyond the first page on RecentChanges/Watchlist ("older n")	Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages	31	T20228, T163429
99	Allow template wizard to substitute a template with a checkbox	Editing	30
100	Create an easy-to-use editing interface for JSON tabular data	Editing	30	T248897 Related: T250919, T249419, T250065
101	Exchange rate template	Editing	30
102	Add user-profile previews to page previews	Miscellaneous	30
103	Photo and video requests to be fullfilled by Wikipedians all around the world	Miscellaneous	30
104	Allow users to emphasise languages when looking up words.	Wiktionary	30
105	Allow abuse filters to be hidden to only oversighters	Anti-harassment	29	T290324
106	DabFix	Bots and gadgets	29		Hackathonable
107	Automatically detect blank pages	Wikisource	29
108	Create a private sandbox page for a Wikipedia user	Editing	27	Related: T176647
109	Remember OCR column/region profiles	Wikisource	27	T294903, T288389
110	Automate WikiProject weekly collaborations	Bots and gadgets	26
111	Fix Wikipedia IFTTT integration	Miscellaneous	26	T294448, T250363	Done by BDavis (WMF)
112	Improve error handling of video2commons	Multimedia and Commons	26
113	Special media search to allow filters in a category	Multimedia and Commons	26
114	Improve tracking of categorization changes	Search and Categories	26	T89582, T130134, T126851, T148533, T270662, T270774 Related: T6366
115	Something like Extension:Variables to simplify template calls	Wiktionary	26	Related: T250963
116	Add block option to hide or suppress username from logs	Admins and patrollers	24	T23097
117	Allow client-side scripts to convert dates in the format used in MediaWiki interface	Bots and gadgets	24	T21992
118	Change information about the number of watchers on a page	Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages	24	Related: T313581 T336250	Done by SMukuti-WMF
119	Allow checkusers to use XFF variable in Abusefilters	Anti-harassment	23	Related: T25343
120	Allow posting new sections to top of Talk pages	Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages	23	T33919, T313165
121	Limit which namespaces are allowed in a category on the category page itself	Search and Categories	23
122	Fix security key (WebAuthn) support	Miscellaneous	22	T244088, T242031 Related: T303495	Partly in progress by Taavi
123	A warning popup when adding a DAB cat while using HotCat	Multimedia and Commons	21
124	Add "search results per page" at the top of Special:Search	Multimedia and Commons	21	T337115	Done by DLynch (WMF)
125	linksfrom: filter	Search and Categories	21	T253642 Related: T301030	Hackathonable
126	Improve patrolling new uploads in Commons	Multimedia and Commons	20
127	Make MediaViewer actually show all authors, instead of just the first one	Multimedia and Commons	20	T68606
128	Community-level notifications	Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages	20
129	Highlight edits that are likely to have problems on page history	Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages	20	T318372
130	Add preference to open links in a new window or tab	Reading	20
131	Allow Thumbor to generate images at higher DPI	Wikisource	20	T256959
132	More functionality for the talk-page reply gadget	Editing	19	Related: T259865
133	Quickly visit template's page in Visual Editor	Editing	19	T328021	Done by ESanders (WMF)
134	Checksums of files at dumps.wikimedia.org	Miscellaneous	19	T331761
135	Tool to copy images from archives to Commons with metadata	Multimedia and Commons	19	T193526
136	Label "New Article" by default with transition to "Needs improvement"	Translation	19
137	Add LUA function to read out previous section heading	Wiktionary	19	T331906
138	Option to show changes from subcategories when viewing related changes of a category	Admins and patrollers	18
139	Make Navigation Popups work on grandchild sub-cats from category pages	Bots and gadgets	18		Hackathonable
140	Allow users to selectively disable code editor functions	Editing	18	Related: T146393
141	Add a new content model for member lists	Miscellaneous	18	Related: T123028
142	Ability to reorder statements	Wikidata	18	T173432
143	IIIF support	Wikisource	18
144	Display a notice on newly created articles	Admins and patrollers	17
145	Change year range shown in date selection popup	Miscellaneous	17	T334316	Done by JSherman (WMF)
146	Make Commonist work again	Multimedia and Commons	17
147	Watchlist edit - "check all" checkbox	Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages	17	T334252	Done by JKieserman (WMF)
148	"Preview page with this template" should only accept/suggest pages that transclude the template	Editing	16	T279736
149	Display the metadata of video files in the metadata section of the file description	Multimedia and Commons	16	T49487, T237154
150	Easier drag-and-drop uploading with licensing options	Multimedia and Commons	16
151	Moving page preview window	Reading	16
152	Scientific papers: Sort authors by their own rank	Wikidata	16	T173432
153	Improve PagePile or create new tool for article lists for communication metrics	Miscellaneous	15	T231891
154	Vote and statistic server	Miscellaneous	15
155	Allow users to specify their location in their profile	Miscellaneous	14	T317063
156	TOC in PDF versions can optionally include page numbers	Miscellaneous	14
157	Deploy Skin:Citizen to Wikimedia wikis	Reading	14
158	Date filter in deleted contributions	Search and Categories	14	T36524	Hackathonable
159	Optional native language label language name	Wikidata	14
160	Structure request pages	Editing	13
161	Button to mark a single change as read in the global watch list	Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages	13	T334246	Done by Tran (WMF)
162	A better way to show differences on Wikidata	Wikidata	13
163	Show Wikimedias language code and language name in Wikidata label box	Wikidata	12
164	Allow category in EXIF data	Multimedia and Commons	11	T23795
165	Improvements to requested articles pages	Miscellaneous	10
166	Can a deletion request for a category be as easy as for a file?	Multimedia and Commons	10
167	Display all copyright info from the EXIF of the uploaded file in the thumbfiles	Multimedia and Commons	10	T5361
168	Some transcluded templates include the page in unnecessary categories	Search and Categories	10
169	Reduce Conflict - Change Revert workflow	Anti-harassment	9
170	Attribution repair mechanism	Admins and patrollers	8
171	Add status messages to assembling and publishing stages of upload process	Multimedia and Commons	8	T309094
172	Disadvantages of '公共轉換組' in Wikipedia (Chinese Version)	Search and Categories	8
173	ContentTranslation Article size	Translation	8
174	Stop-time blocks	Admins and patrollers	7
175	Enable removing block log entries entirely, not just redacting	Admins and patrollers	6
176	Add "No keyword" as the default option in the Gerrit search dropdown list	Miscellaneous	6
177	Provide example code for adding depict statements with a command line script	Multimedia and Commons	6	Related: T213904, T223796
178	Sort label box by language name on Wikidata	Wikidata	6
179	Make Special:Search on Commons show all requested thumbnails	Multimedia and Commons	5	T266155	Partly done by TheDJ
180	Sister project read	Reading	5		Already done; feature already exists
181	Kiwik template - Ping projects/limited workflow	Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages	4	Related: T323875, T123529, T123636
182	Wikipedia API: Output also in text or in TSV format	Miscellaneous	1

See also the results for each category:

• Larger suggestions (not shown in the table above)
• Admins and patrollers
• Anti-harassment
• Bots and gadgets
• Citations
• Editing
• Miscellaneous
• Mobile and apps
• Multimedia and Commons
• New contributors
• Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages
• Reading
• Search and Categories
• Translation
• Wikidata
• Wikisource
• Wiktionary

Larger suggestions

Thank you for your 30 Larger suggestions and the 842 votes you cast for them, and all the comments you added! We will share the results with the rightful colleagues at the Foundation.

Regarding the Dismantling of the annual Wishlist Survey system suggestion, we have drafted a report and once again we will share it with the Foundation.

Gratitude

We thank all who put time and effort into the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition.

We are not able to make a full list of everyone who deserves to be mentioned here. Heartfelt appreciation to everyone who helped us on social media, within their own communities, and was less likely to be noticed by us.

• TheDJ, Nardog, and Theklan, for their feedback and general assistance.
• Xavier Dengra, for dismantling the Wishlist discussion and Sdkb for your thoughts about fatigue.
• Xaosflux, for the general technical feedback on wishes, and for tagging all the Phabricator tasks for the last few years!
• Ignacio Rodríguez, Ciencia Al Poder, DaxServer, Tacsipacsi, Base, and Nux, for noticing and sharing issues with our voting gadget.
• 리듬, Elilopes, Jules*, Laurent Jerry, Sabelöga, INS Pirat, Doraemonplus, WikiFer, Kokage si, and Pols12 among others who tirelessly translated proposals and other content throughout the survey.
• Other WMF teams who helped us evaluate feasibility of proposals that were in their scope.

What's next

Curious about what happens next? Last year we published a prioritization process to rank an ideal order of prioritized proposals. However, this year we will iterate on that process and give popularity more weight plus allow more time for the estimation of complexity so that it can be more accurate. Before we select any wishes for completion, we will investigate the complexity of the top 10 wishes and share an update this April!

If you have proposals for the next Survey

...and don't want to forget them, add them to the sandbox. Proposals saved there do not count as submitted, but they will be in other people's minds and will be less likely to be abandoned.

Thank you!

With sincerest regards,

Natalia Rodriguez, Karolin Siebert, James McLeod, Dayllan Maza, MusikAnimal, Sam Wilson, Harumi Monroy, TheresNoTime, Dom Walden, George Mikesell, Sandister Tei – Community Tech