Community Wishlist/Updates

May 13, 2026: Latest updates from the Community Tech team

Hello everyone! It’s time to share with you an update of the work we’ve done in the last month, and what lies ahead in terms of what we’re going to work on.

The work we did in the last month

As part of the work on Watchlist labels, we closed another wish that was asking for tagging and tracking which pages users need to edit based on priority, interest levels, topics, and page improvement tasks. In addition, some of the required features of the wish were included in the newly deployed Personal Dashboard.

Also, we continued working on adding new languages to “Who Wrote That” and to the P&E Dashboard, with an additional 12 languages now available for those tools. There may be additional languages that will be available in the future.

Moreover, the Editing Team has been working on a wish related to a warning message when large amounts of content are being copy-pasted: a feature for this has now been deployed to all wikis and the team is currently asking for feedback about it.

Lastly, during the Wikimedia Hackathon in Milan, Katie Filbert worked on a patch to ensure to add a date range filter for MediaSearch. The patch is currently awaiting review.

What we currently have in progress

This is what we are currently focusing on this month:

Make the Chart extension beginner-friendly: we have finished some design mock-ups, which we have published on the new project page, and we started the technical implementation of the wish.
Support full colour 3D models on Wikimedia projects: 3D rendering has now been improved (scene lighting and normalising model scale, see this example). In addition, we have been investigating GLB support for 3d2png, exploring a new potential solution to the problem, after we found the initial attempt to not work. You can track progress on Phabricator at phab:T424872.
Add Wikipedia Mobile App’s Reading Lists to the Website: the feature has been deployed to all wikis on Beta only by the Reader team, which will be monitored to determine full production rollout.

What we are scoping next

Looking ahead, we already identified our priorities for the months to come:

Add the "hide templates" option to What links here page, a wish that already made top 6 in the 2022 Community Wishlist survey and that has quite some support in its resolution by users now, that focuses on removing articles from “What links here” page if included in a template, rather than included directly in the text.
Edit introduction instead of the entire article, a wish that asks for the possibility of editing only the incipit of an article, instead of opening the whole article in order to do it.
A way to see why a file is somewhere underneath a specific category (tool to show cat-path), a wish that asks for a functionality that shows the categorization path of the file to the parent category, so that one can spot the faulty categorization and fix it.
A proper audio player, a wish that calls for improving the current way for Wikimedia Commons to show and listen to audio files.
Allow sorting of discussions on talk pages, a wish already proposed in 2023, to help projects and pages that have non-standard sorting of discussions. Instead of forcing all users into one sorting order,, we can allow individual users to sort discussions chronologically in their preferred order, or even by “last modified”.

Some statistics

Here is a snapshot showing the breakdown of wish status over the past month:

These numbers are regularly shifting due to new incoming wishes and more in depth review of wishes under review with stakeholders. The most notable shifts in numbers over the past month have been under review (down from 87 to 79), prioritised (up from 15 to 21) and long-term opportunity (up from 204 to 210).

Lastly, in April we reached a turnaround time of just under 3 business days for all new incoming wishes.

We need your feedback

As always, there are topics and areas for which we are seeking your feedback. In particular:

The Wikimedia Foundation’s 2026-2027 Annual Plan has been published, and six Key Results are relevant for recurring wishes. Join the talk page, which includes various prompts, authored collectively by the Product & Technology department.
- For example, see the discussion on newcomers, which is relevant for the popular Highlight edit button wish.
The draft we shared last month about how we triage and prioritise wishes to work on has now been published, and the page has been reorganised into sections due to the increased length.
As we enter the new financial year in July, we have started to think about refreshing Focus Areas and have posted some initial thoughts where you can participate.

As always, if you have questions or feedback about it, please let us know in the Community Wishlist’s talk page. We are eager to hear from you!

April 7, 2026: What we have done so far and what the team will be working on in the next months

Hello everyone! This time, we have a lot of news to share regarding the work done so far, and what’s coming next. This will also be the format going forward to provide more visibility into work.

The work we did in the last month

First of all, we are wrapping up work on Watchlist labels on all projects. This new feature allows users to add labels to items in their watchlist to help with managing and filtering watchlists, especially large ones. So far, 1,595 users across projects have created at least one label, and 3,554 labels have been created, for a total of 250,279 watchlist pages that have been assigned a label. We are happy about these initial results, and we expect these statistics to grow with time.

Other smaller wishes that we implemented in the last month are:

"Preview page with this template" should not work with pages that do not transclude the template, a bug with the preview page feature;
Google & DuckDuckGo search not indexing media files and categories on Commons, a wish related to the indexing of Commons on two main search engines that had quite some support;
Allow editors to subscribe to community wishes, to allow editors to receive a cross-wiki notification if there is an update or reply;
Editing mathematics is too difficult, a wish that requires simplifying the insertion of maths formulas in articles.

What we currently have in progress

We are also wrapping up work to be completed in the next few months, in collaboration with other Wikimedia Foundation teams, on wishes such as:

Prevent VisualEditor from fabricating sources, that would fix a bug when generating automatically a reference through VisualEditor;
Enable mul tags from Wikidata in the global watchlist, to let watchlists show the multilingual label from Wikidata when a local label isn’t entered;
Three wishes related to Video2Commons (subtitle import, max resolution import, and enabling importing playlists);
Allow abuse filters to be hidden to only oversighters, a request to mask private information needed for AbuseFilter needs;
When searching Commons, under "Categories and Pages" show the category for the search term, a wish that was already presented in 2021.

What we are scoping next

Looking ahead, we already identified our priorities for the months to come, and it is a lot of work! Here’s a sneak peak at some of the work we defined as our next priorities:

Add the "hide templates" option to What links here page, a wish that already made top 6 in the 2022 Community Wishlist survey and that has quite some support in its resolution by users now, that focuses on removing articles from “What links here” page if included in a template, rather than included directly in the text;
Edit introduction instead of the entire article, a wish that asks for the possibility of editing only the incipit of an article, instead of opening the whole article in order to do it;
we’re also about to conclude work on Make "Who Wrote That" tool and P&E Dashboard's Authorship Highlighting feature work in all languages, a wish about improving two well-used tools in the community.

We will also keep on our table the Support full colour 3D models on Wikimedia projects, a very popular wish among those submitted with 37 supporters. The team has already started working on it and is resolving new productionalization dependencies now. We also are continuing to evaluate and plan on how to scope and decompose Make the Chart extension beginner-friendly, since this is another well-supported wish (see discussion page to add feedback).

Meanwhile, we are working closely with other teams to solve other wishes, such as:

Warn when large amount of content has been copy-pasted, that asks to warn users when they insert a large amount of content, and that will add a tag to the edit, so that patrollers are aware of a possible problem (we are working on this with the Editing team);
Add Wikipedia Mobile App’s Reading Lists to the Website, to port the reading list functionality to the website, currently done with a browser extension (we are working on this with the Readers team);
Make subreferencing work with inline refs and reflist, to expand the usability of the new subreferencing feature (see also the project page).

Some statistics

We also wanted to share some statistics with you regarding the current situation of wishes:

so far, we closed 44 wishes as fulfilled (8% of the total of wishes);
we have 17 wishes in progress and we have prioritized another 15 (meaning we will start working on them soon), totaling 7% of wishes;
204 wishes are categorized as long-term opportunities, but we commit to continually revisit these to determine whether some could become actionable in the near future;
78 wishes are considered community responses and we invite community to look at this to solve them;
79 wishes were closed due to duplication, alignment with community guidelines rather than technical issues, or lack of feasibility;
lastly, another 87 are still under review by our various Foundation teams.

These numbers are regularly shifting due to new incoming wishes. For the past two months, we have also been responding to wishes consistently within a week of submission.

We need your feedback

To provide more transparency about how we triage and prioritize wishes, we want to also update our guidelines with tips on how to write a good wish. Please, join the discussion and have your say.

As always, if you have questions or feedback about it, please let us know in the Community Wishlist’s talk page. We are eager to hear from you!

February 18, 2026: Update on current and future work

Hello everyone! We have some more news to share regarding the work done so far, and what’s coming next in our line of work.

First of all, we successfully deployed Watchlist labels on all projects. This new feature allows users to add labels to items in their watchlist to help with managing and filtering watchlists, especially large ones. So far, 1,088 users across projects have created at least one label, and 2,325 labels have been created, for a total of 76,459 watchlist pages that have been assigned a label. We are happy about these initial results, and we expect these statistics to grow with time.

Our team’s work is not done, by the way. We will take up two new wishes from the community. The first one will be “Add the "hide templates" option to What links here page”, previously wish #6 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022, that focuses on removing articles from “What links here” page if included in a template, rather than included directly in the text.

The second one will be “Support full colour 3D models on Wikimedia projects”, a very popular wish among those submitted with 34 supporters. The team will probably work on it starting from what the community has already done in the past on the matter.

We also are evaluating and planning on how to scope and decompose “Make the Chart extension beginner-friendly”, since it's a very open wish. This is another very popular wish among those submitted. We will keep you posted on relevant developments.

As always, if you have questions or feedback about it, please let us know in the Community Wishlist’s talk page. We are eager to hear from you!

January 7, 2026: Update to statuses and to users’ watchlists

Hello everyone! For the first update of 2026, we got some interesting news to share with you.

First of all, we will revisit slightly the statuses for wishes, to better align our work with the needs of the users: more specifically, the “accepted” status will be merged with the “under review” status, and we will open the possibility to vote “under review” wishes; moreover, we will remove the “unsupported” status, that will be merged with the “community opportunity” status. This will mean that “unsupported” wishes can be part of the workstream of the Unsupported Tools Working Group, that has recently started an independent process to resolve some of these issues through shorter development cycles. In the next few days, we will update accordingly the statuses of the involved wishes.

In addition to this, we have some changes to Special:Watchlist that are coming, as part of our current work on the Watchlist labels project:

we will update the display of Special:EditWatchlist as a first step towards watchlist labels;
we will update pagination on Special:Search, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation wish.

As always, if you have questions or feedback about it, please let us know in the Community Wishlist’s talk page. We are eager to hear from you!