Community Liaisons/Product Surveys/Ideas

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This is an ongoing list of ideas which have been submitted so that anyone can see which ideas are being entered into the poll. Only ideas which have been entered into the AllOurIdeas poll will be entered here so that anyone can review them. Please do not add new ideas here, but do feel free to comment on the Discussion page. Some "further information" may be a request for clarity

English Wikipedia[edit]

Submitted idea Added? Why/Why not?
Reflinks - semi-automatically adds meta-info to bare references Yes
CopyVios - copyright violation detector Yes
revisionjumper - powerful tools for browsing diffs and histories Yes
Page stats - e.g. http://stats.grok.se versus X!’s articleinfo Yes
Twinkle - quick support for maintenance tasks Yes
HotCat - easily remove, change, add categories Yes
Edit counter - e.g. X!’s EC Yes
PrepBio - helps to generate infobox templates for biographies Yes
FlickrFree - shows free, recently uploaded images, ready for transfer to Commons Yes
QuickIntersection - fast and simple category tree intersection Yes
Central Reference Store - transclusion of references from WikiData IDs to make articles more readable No Not an existing tool/gadget
Bring the few good things from VE to Wikitext: the template editor, the file selector, and perhaps the reference tool No Not a specific tool or gadget
Search web sources in a reflist No Not a specific tool or gadget
Peer reviewer program - checks articles against Featured Article criteria: http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/view/Peer_reviewer Yes
Reflinks should be automated to add data from the web No Already entered
add gre gmat sat words as a category in wiktionary No Not a specific tool or gadget
extend mobile wishlist for wiktionary No Not a specific tool or gadget
local social mobile No Not a specific tool or gadget
more images and videos No Not a specific tool or gadget
my wishlist for keeping track of pages. No Not a specific tool or gadget (But see watchlist wishlist)
Project Management Software used by WMF itself in order to inform WMF better when newly developed software and facilities should be released No Not a specfic tool or gadget
Anti-copivio - tool, shows you percent of copivio text from chosen website to Wikipedia article No Already entered
WikiEditor Yes
Some sort of shadow box that shows images larger/full-size over current page either when either clicked or hovering over thumbnails. No Not a specific tool or gadget
Please find the real worker to train them and give admin ship for publishing or real worker gonna loose in every situation. No Not a specific tool or gadget
Please find the real worker to train them and give admin ship for publishing. No Not a specific tool or gadget
Always my suggestion is please find the real worker to train them and give admin ship for publishing this is the thing. No Not a specific tool or gadget
email the creator for confermation No Not a specific tool or gadget
Contact through email No Not a specific tool or gadget (already exists)
All the best way to i'v wrote before No Not a specific tool or gadget
find real people who are really working and train them No Not a specific tool or gadget
by there Phone IMEI No Not a specific tool or gadget
ok No Not a specific tool or gadget
Please find the real person and support them by there needs No Not a specific tool or gadget
Refine the tool (if it exists) that helps us find all these tools that we never heard of! No Not a specific tool or gadget
Refine the tool (assuming it exists) that shows all the contributions a specified editor has made to the current article. No Not a specific tool or gadget (use 500 revisions, and ctrl-f)
Refine wikiblame to show how a given sentence or paragraph has evolved over time (and which editor made which change). Yes added as wikiblame/xtools' blame)
Vada - Anti-vandalism, cleaning in-browser tool Yes
Ask less questions. Try making them different, it's less likely to bore me into quitting this questionaire No Not a specific tool or gadget
Syntax highlighter - Use color to highlight elements of wikicode Yes
Why does this fucking thing keep asking me the same questions? No Not a specific tool or gadget
Copy to Commons via WMFLabs Commons Helper Yes
Please, please, please fix the Edit counter!! It's great....it just breaks a lot! No Already entered
Bugs 15017, 25602, 49132, 49133, 49134, 70385, 10094, 10453, 11, 11127, 11259, 11374, 12306, 12363, 12401, 13025, 13064, 13070, 13291, 13619 No Not a specific tool or gadget
Neither is of interest No Not a specific tool or gadget
Will this ever end? I've been clicking on this survey for a long time and it seems like it will never end. No Not a specific tool or gadget
CropTool, lossless cropping tool for Commons Images Yes
Wikidata powered structured infoboxes No Not a specific tool or gadget / Already in development
It is not at all clear whether one can vote for just one, or both. Please improve. No Not a specific tool or gadget
Please see the bot here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EranBot No Already entered (all copyvio tools are treated as a group)
We need the WMF working on the "copy and paste" detection bot. Rates of plagiarism of high :-( No Already entered (all copyvio tools are treated as a group)
Ability to watchlist a talkpage thread—although Erik has already said this is non-trivial (but possible). No Not an existing tool/gadget
Chrome extension that automatically formats the page into Empty citation (help)  format, and archives the URL if web-based No Not an existing tool/gadget (but covered by Cite4wiki, below)
Silence option - let users silence other users so the latter can't leave pings or talkpage messages for the former No Not an existing tool/gadget
'Facilitator' flag that lets users protect pages/files from deletion and users from being blocked No Not an existing tool/gadget
Up/downvote comments on talkpages (mainly to gray out downvoted ones a la hackernews) No Not an existing tool/gadget
A custom userpage design tool for those of us unskilled enough to build our own userpage with internet coding. No Not an existing tool/gadget
A non MediaViewer tool to keep users from having to use the device. No Not a specific tool or gadget
I would like to see improvements in the Expand Citations tool. Yes (added as "Citation expander gadget")
Cite4Wiki -- browser add-on to automatically create citations from current web page Yes
The many bugs that are still open in Phabricator ... please solve those issues first, they are BUGS REPORTED by PEOPLE No Not a specific tool or gadget
Better recognition of volunteer software developers. No Not a specific tool or gadget
Moreuse of donated hardware / virtual machines. No Not a specific tool or gadget
Faster page loading.... more local to the user squid caching. No Not a specific tool or gadget
Better methodsfor COI declaration. No Not a specific tool or gadget
Volunteer recognition tools - who is the major contributor? No Not a specific tool or gadget
I'd like to see improvements to DabSolver ............ User:PKT Yes added as "Dab Solver (fixes links to disambiguation pages
Reference archive finder/creator tool No Not a specific tool or gadget
citation re-use tools No Not a specific tool or gadget
RefToolbar - Dialog boxes to make inserting reference templates easier No Already in development
Incorporate Twinkle as an official gadget of the site, add more functions, fix bugs, etc No Already entered!
None of the above. No Not a specific tool or gadget
kill MediaViewer and Flow No out of scope
Referencing tools - reflinks, checklinks, etc Yes added as: Checklinks - an external link access-status checker
Image adder. Add images based on commons categories, gecoding or images used on the same article in other languages. No Not an existing tool or gadget
Flow - a new way to hold discussions No Already in development
A Visual Editor would be a good idea, but only if it was designed to work on old PCs. The existing Visual Editor is not fit for purpose. No Not a specific tool or gadget
Reduce edit conflicts. There are several easy fixes on Bugzilla that are won't fixes because they only drive away newbies. No Not a specific tool or gadget
Twinkle is good for welcoming, but it is part of our biggest problem - the shift from fixing things to templating them for others to fix No Not a specific tool or gadget
Hotcat works fine, please don't change it as half the WMF developments mean that software won't work on my old PC and I use Hotcat a lot. No Not a specific tool or gadget
Rangeblock calculator Yes
Stop administrators taking pride in deleting other peoples articles. No Not a specific tool or gadget
Shadow namespaces - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Shadow_namespaces No Not a specific tool or gadget
Duplication Detector No Already entered
map drawer: encode geographical coordinates suitable for KML/template use to map non-point features like roads, trails, etc. Reviewing
Template finder: a tool to help quickly locate templates based on purpose, namespace, related articles, history, and popularity. No Not a specific tool or gadget
PrepPlace - a tool like PrepBio, except for places, not biographies No Not an existing tool/gadget (but noted as a feature request)
ProofreadPage - per-page scan transcription and transclusion assistance on Wikisource Yes
Match and split tool (User:Phe-bot) - match & split text transcriptions by page scans on Wikisource Yes
Redirect image links to Commons for files that are hosted there No Not a specific tool or gadget
GoogleTrans -open a translation popup for the selected text or the word under the cursor when pushing the shift button No Already in development
GregU/dashes.js - A tool for easily fixing dashes Yes
Hotcat - tool for adding categories No Already entered!
Cross-platform version of AWB (i.e. AWB for Mac OS, for starters). Yes added as: AWB - autowikibrowser, a semi-automated MediaWiki editor
Citation bot - maintains, expands, and fixes broken citation templates. Exists but needs an active developer. Yes
Flow No Already in development
VisualEditor No Already in development
allow thumb to be a crop of image, without having to create&upload a separate cropped img e.g. syntax for begin/end X %, begin/end Y % No Not an existing tool/gadget
Fixing X! Tools article info and edit count so that it isn't broken all of the time No Already entered
A more reliable tool server that monitors tools and restarts them when they stop working. No Not an existing tool/gadget
Better citation creation and editing tools are much more important than either of these. No Not an existing tool/gadget (but addressed elsewhere)
A filter that automatically blocks an account until unlocked upon more than three copyvios being detected No Not an existing tool/gadget
Most important tool we could have: One that is really smart at scraping and creating formatted, populated citations from URLs given to it. No Already in development
The watchlist No See talk Page
Revert back to Monobook as the default as it's many times better than Vector and make Vector an opt-in skin. No Not a specific tool or gadget
Improve the mobile ui, make it possible to disable it. No Not a specific tool or gadget
NavPopups - article previews/editing function popups when hovering over links Yes
Defaultsummaries - prewritten edit summaries in a dropdown box Yes
Tab2Wiki - converts tsv-tables (i.e. copied from Excel) to Wikitext tables Yes
URL decoder - fix %xx character encoding Yes
ImageAnnotator - add/view notes and links overlayed on images Yes
derivativeFX - helps to upload derivative works from Wikimedia Commons Yes
CrossCats - find relevant categories based on other languages Yes
GLAMourus - keep track of Commons images used on other projects Yes
JSL - JavaScript Standard Library - compatibility library for browsers Yes
dictionaryLookupHover - interwiki Wiktionary popups Yes
RegexMenuFramework - a sidebar menu of user-defined regex tools Yes
metadata - display quality assessment metadata [Only for a few wikis] Yes
Rechtschreibpruefung and Corrector ortográfico - spellcheck Yes
CheckWiki Reviewing
Well, I voted for Greg dashes. I can't live without that one. Reviewing
Reinstate an article feedback tool (the rate this page version 4 I think)
upload wizard No Already in development
a page search, which is filtered by multiple criteria. etc:contributions of certain users, between date A and B, including the text "xxx" Reviewing
I want restoration of the bot (before July '14) that was used to fix dab links - it used to provide a direct link to the dab page for change Reviewing
Reinstate Wikiviewstats, which hasn't worked for months
Replace the database reports. Nothing speaks louder of a project in decline than this page, with its prominent "Many reports are broken" banner and its long list of useful reports which no longer run, whether marked as "broken" or not Not a specific tool or gadget, see Discussion Page

Spanish language Wikipedia[edit]

Submitted idea Added? Why/Why not?
FlickrFree - muestra imágenes libres recién subidas, listas para ser transferidas a Commons Si
ImageAnnotator - agregar/mirar notas y enlaces sobrepuestos en imágenes Si
HotCat - eliminar, cambiar y agregar categorías fácilmente Si
CopyVios - detector de violación de derechos de autor Si
PrepBio - ayuda a generar plantillas de fichas para biografías Si
Twinkle - apoyo inmediato para tareas de mantenimiento Si
Popups de navegación - ventanas emergentes para previsualizar y editar artículos enlazados. Si
Tab2Wiki - convierte hojas tabuladas (ej. copiadas de Excel) a tablas de Wikitext Si
Corrector ortográfico Si
Contador de ediciones - ej. X!'s EC Si
none, both are useless and unnecesary Si
QuickIntersection - intersección rápida y sencilla de árboles de categorías Si
CrossCats - encuentre categorías relevantes basadas en otros idiomas Si
Defaultsummaries - resúmenes de edición escritos de antemano en un cuadro desplegable Si
RegexMenuFramework - menú lateral de herramientas de expresión regular definidas por el usuario Si
Estadísticas de páginas - ej. http://stats.grok.se contra X!’s articleinfo Si
revisionjumper - herramientas potentes para consultar revisiones e historiales Si
GLAMourus - hace seguimiento de imágenes de Commons utilizadas en otros proyectos Si
derivativeFX - ayuda a subir trabajos derivados de Wikimedia Commons Si
URL decoder - reparar %xx en la codificación de caracteres Si
metadata - mostrar metadatos de evaluación de calidad [solamente en algunos wikis] Si
dictionaryLookupHover - ventanas emergentes de Wiktionary en otros wikis Si
JSL - JavaScript Standard Library - biblioteca de compatibilidad para buscadores Si
Reflinks - agregación semi-automàtica de metadatos a referencias mínimas Si
Un programa de reconocimiento de plantillas por categoría para buscar artículos que necesiten ser wikificados, fusionados, por categoría No Not a specific tool or gadget
Localizar imágenes utilizables en Wikipedia/Commons. Algo parecido a lo propuesto con Flicker ¿Y Google, no se deja? Si
Viewer of spheric panoramas (those offering a roundabout view in all direction of a location and can be steered with the mouse) No Not a specific tool or gadge
Popups de navegación - ventanas emergentes para previsualizar y editar artículos enlazados. No Already added!
Una herramienta similar al DisamAssist en todas las wikis Si
La forma de incluir las versiones en otros idiomas de un artículo. Creo que como era antes era más fácil y rápido No Not a specific tool or gadget
Los Popups de navegación, no me funcionan hace como 8 meses No Already added!
Wikidata acabará con los árboles de categorías. No hay que perder el tiempo en ellos No Not a specific tool or gadget
none, both are useless and unnecesary No Not a specific tool or gadget
Para agilizar la carga de contenido: deberían eliminar los abundantes comentarios que hay en los escrips No Not a specific tool or gadget
Mejorar este tipo de encuestas para que no parezcan absurdas. No Not a specific tool or gadget