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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

from 2004, though still relevant today

Article validation system

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

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

Code documentation

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