Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks (Community Wishlist/FA1)
Background
With the scale and breadth of editing activity on Wikipedia (example), even advanced editors and patrollers can be flooded with information and feel overwhelmed on where to focus. As one contributor said: "If one has many articles on the Watchlist and wants to check all of them or as many as possible, this takes a lot of time. It also takes more effort to see the semantic changes done by human editors when diffs are very long and cluttered with such bot changes."
Contributors and editors need better tooling and capabilities to uphold the quality of their respective wikis, specifically to signal where and how to focus first. Use cases include editors who want to maintain quality of a specific topic (i.e., transit systems) that align to their personal interests, and editors who seek to ensure that topical and newsworthy edits (i.e., 2024 Olympics) or new pages align to the quality standards of their wiki.
Objectives
This Focus Area connects to the following Wikimedia Foundation objectives:
- WE1: Both experienced and new contributors rally together online to build a trustworthy encyclopedia, with more ease and less frustration.
- WE2: Communities are supported to effectively close knowledge gaps through tools and support systems that are easier to access, adapt, and improve, ensuring increased growth in trustworthy encyclopedic content.
- Created: 08:54, 6 August 2024
- Last updated: 01:34, 2 October 2025
This focus area currently has 24 supporters. Voting for this focus area is open until it is completed.