Community Wishlist

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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 e dey job:

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.

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📢 Latest Updates

December 16, 2024: Better stitching between Commons and other projects is open for discussion and support

The Community Wishlist has curated a focus area from requests to improve connection between Wikimedia Commons and other Wikimedia projects. The focus area is titled Better stitching between Commons and other projects. It is also open for discussion and support.

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Focus areas

Below is the first batch of focus areas. Each focus area is comprised of three or more wishes that share an underlying problem.

In progress

Template recall and discovery

We're building a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, to increase dialog usage and the number of templates added.

Supported by: 26 people

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Submitted

Help content reviewers more efficiently manage their repetitive tasks

Help content reviewers more efficiently manage their repetitive tasks, so they can focus more on editing articles or other on-wiki activities. We'll know we're successful if we can cut down on the number of edits in review and improve moderator satisfaction.

Supported by: 22 people

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Submitted

Media formats, editing, and display

Volunteers noted the importance of supporting new file formats and improving features and tools that can allow users to upload high-efficiency images to Wikimedia sites, have an easier editing experience and improved use of media players.

Supported by: 19 people

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Submitted

Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks

Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks, so they can more efficiently review and uphold the quality of content on their wikis. We'll know we're successful if this work improves editor or patroller satisfaction and reduces the "queue" of things to review.

Supported by: 13 people

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All focus areas

Recent wishes

Dese be de wishes dem recently submit. You go fi mow chaw about each individual wish, den see oda wishes wey dey de 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^?
Support for ISO, EDTF or IETF Date Standards in MediaWiki Parser Functions	Unassigned	Feature request	All projects	2025-01-09T21:48:45.000Z9 January 2025	Open
AbuseFilter hit notifications	Unassigned	Feature request	All projects	2025-01-09T21:47:08.000Z9 January 2025	Open
Allow use of modern CSS in templates by updating the TemplateStyles CSS sanitizer	Unassigned	Unknown	All projects	2025-01-09T16:45:25.000Z9 January 2025	Submitted
Page swap	Unassigned	Feature request	Wikipedia	2025-01-07T15:25:30.000Z7 January 2025	Open
universal templates	Unassigned	System change	Wikipedia	2025-01-01T02:30:41.000Z1 January 2025	Submitted

All wishes