Requests from Incoming requests should be placed here if there's consensus among developers, editors and the community that the request is useful, needed and possible to realize. Feel free to order the tasks by priority. Once a task is completed please move it to Completed tasks.

Chain: Incoming requests - Open tasks - Completed tasks

Old examples

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from 2004, though still relevant today

Article validation system

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  • Description: possibility to rate articles according to different criterias
  • Needed for: CD-edition, Wikipedia 1.0 paper edition
  • Benefits: quality control
  • Votes:
  • Developer opinion:
  • taken by: Magnus Manske
  • Status: prototype on http://test.wikipedia.org

Database schema redesign

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  • Description:
  • Needed for: MediaWiki software improvement
  • Votes:
  • Developer opinion:
  • taken by: User:Brion VIBBER
  • Status:

Code documentation

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  • Description: commenting source code
  • Needed for: MediaWiki software improvement
  • Benefits: attracting new programmers
  • Votes:
  • Developer opinion:
  • taken by:
  • status: