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Community Tech

Community Tech manages the Community Wishlist, a forum for contributors from all Wikimedia projects to suggest and comment on product and technology changes and improvements.

We leverage the Wishlist to collaborate with editors, volunteer developers, and other Wikimedia teams to turn community-identified needs into real solutions, and work on priority wishes.

✨ Make a Wish or support Wishlist ideas

The team

Jack Wheeler

Lead Community Tech Manager

Karolin Siebert

Engineering Manager

Cormac Parle

Principal Software Engineer

Dayllan Maza

Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead

Tim Starling

Principal Software Architect

Joydeep Sengupta

Principal User Experience Designer

Harumi Monroy

Senior Software Engineer

MusikAnimal

Staff Software Engineer

Sam Wilson

Staff Software Engineer

TheresNoTime

Software Engineer

Sandister Tei

Movement Communications Specialist

Dom Walden

Test Engineer

George Mikesell

Test Engineer

🛠️ How We Work

We are a small team with limited resources, and balance our efforts across three categories:

Building tooling to advance the Community Wishlist
Maintenance of existing tools and features supported by the Community Tech team
Delivering on wishes, primarily by adopting Focus Areas supported by volunteers.

When we say "no" to a given request, we are merely stating it goes against our current priorities.

When working and communicating with us:

Please be calm, civil, and assume we’re working in good faith.
We aim to respond promptly but can't guarantee immediate replies.
Sometimes, we may need to close a conversation if it takes too much of our time or attention.
We can not handle projects on another team's roadmap or ones that conflict with their work, but we will direct you to the right person when possible.
We can not discuss staffing or confidential issues.

Current selected projects

Community Tech is currently wrapping up carry-over work from the 2023 Wishlist. Beginning in 2024-25, the team will adopt community-supported Focus Areas via the new Community Wishlist.

Projects	Project status
Multiblocks	In development
Edit-Recovery Feature	In development

// add in CodeMirror 6 (in development)

// add in the Community Wishlist/Focus areas/Template recall and discovery (in planning) // recently done: QR Share

📢 Latest Updates

October 22, 2024. General updates to the Community Wishlist
- Since launching on July 15, we have fielded over 315 wishes; approximately 25% of these wishes were written in non-English. We've also released 5 Focus Areas, with a goal to publish at least 6 more focus areas before the end of 2024.
- Machine translations of wishes. To increase participation in the Wishlist, volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content. Our goal is to make Wishlist content more accessible. We are inviting you to try this out by activating the “WishlistTranslation” gadget preference on MetaWiki. Please see below a screenshot of the section where you can turn on the feature. Please bear in mind that these machine translations are not human-reviewed. Therefore, the quality of translations will vary, and we welcome any feedback from you via the Community Wishlist talkpage.
- Multiblocks. The Community Tech team is focused on delivering Multiblocks, the #14 wish in the Community Wishlist Survey from 2023. This is carry-over work from our previous annual plan, with the goal to introduce layering blocks. To build this new capability, we've also re-written the Special:Block page in Codex.
- Template Recall and Discovery: Community Tech is writing out a technical plan to introduce Favoriting Templates, our first feature and capability identified via our Template Recall and Discovery focus area. We anticipate work on this starting in November 2024.

Further information