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
editMarch 12, 2025: Multiblocks pilot
editMultiblocks, the #14 wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 will be released to the Polish-language Wikipedia by the end of March 2025 for piloting. We are also seeking additional wikis to pilot with. We have a deployment schedule on Phabricator.
With Multiblocks, admins get more block options: a sitewide and a partial block can run at the same time with different expiry dates. This eliminates the need to wait for the expiration of one block to apply the other. An admin may want to initially impose a temporary sitewide block on a disruptive user, and later keep their access to specific pages or namespaces restricted. This may be useful in cases of blocking Wikipedians heavily involved in editing specific namespaces or pages.
Currently, admins must wait for the first block to expire before applying a second one. They need to find other solutions like setting reminders to return and update the restrictions manually. With Multiblocks, this extra step is no longer necessary. As part of preparations for building Multiblocks, Community Tech has redesigned the Special:Block page using Codex. The block log has been repositioned towards the top of the page so the admins can easily access this information to decide the nature of subsequent blocks.
Blocks can now be applied using precise date selections, providing clearer and more consistent expiration settings compared to written time intervals such as "fortnights." These design changes serve as foundational steps for the Multiblocks implementation.
The refreshed Special:Block page is accessible via applying a url parameter ?usecodex=1 to the end of the link to an admin's block page. You can try it out. Give feedback about the refreshed Special:Block page on the project talk page.
Some communities may need to update their policies or guidelines for using Multiblocks. We encourage you to start considering these needs if they apply to you. Community Tech is here to support your discussions and will also be listening to how communities wish to approach this.
Thank you for your patience as we work towards delivering this helpful new feature.
Some focus areas
editBelow is the first batch of focus areas. Each focus area is comprised of three or more wishes that share an underlying problem.
Media formats, editing, and display
Template recall and discovery
Help content reviewers more efficiently manage their repetitive tasks
Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks
Recent wishes
editThese 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? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden Categories Grouping | Improve how categories are presented on articles | Feature request | All projects | March 27, 2025 | Open |
| Improve search facility | Unassigned | Feature request | All projects | March 27, 2025 | Open |
| Watchlist - hide structured data edits | Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks | Feature request | Wikimedia Commons | March 27, 2025 | Open |
| Watchlist - identify Structured Data changes | Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks | Feature request | Wikimedia Commons | March 27, 2025 | Open |
| If a video is available in another language(s), show a hint in the video player | Unassigned | Feature request | Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata | March 27, 2025 | Open |