Community Wishlist
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 it works:
- 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.
📢 Latest Updates
June 18, 2025: Results of our last Wishathon sprint
Hello everyone! We wanted to share with you the results of the recently closed “Wishathon”, our internal hackathon organized by Community Tech to help fulfill more wishes from Community Wishlist.
The Wishathon, which ran from Monday 19 to Friday 23 May, engaged Wikimedia Foundation staff to help fulfill more wishes, and also foster cross-team and cross-departmental collaboration.
22 patches were written during the week, of which 4 were already merged. This allowed us to grant three wishes from the community, and we have a clearer path ahead for five more wishes.
The wishes granted through our Wishathon include:
- Filing a patch to introduce the ability to set default watchlist expiries (phab:T265716; thanks to This, that and the other, MusikAnimal, and Susana Cardenas Molinar)
- Fixing a bug that prevented the “[show/hide]” dropdown button of the navigational boxes to be shown by the “edit preview” reload button (phab:T315894, which came also with phab:T394078 to be fixed first; thanks to Sam Wilson and Joydeep Sengupta)
- Filing seven different patches to the CSS sanitizer (phab:T324526, phab:T394619, phab:T277755, phab:T360725, phab:T368089, phab:T293633, and phab:T371809) that are awaiting code review at the moment, plus a couple more ideas to be evaluated (phab:T394963 and phab:T394964; thanks to Tim Starling and MusikAnimal)
In addition to that, we also worked on the following tasks and wishes:
- Improved the way translation on discussion pages of wishes work (phab:T295862 and phab:T363306; thanks to Nik Gkountas and Joydeep Sengupta)
- Realising a functional prototype to select templates by categories, related to Template recall and discovery (phab:T392553, thanks to Sam Wilson)
- Completing the design and WIP implementation to revamp pagination of page navigation (phab:T394637, thanks to Michelle Horsey and Bárbara Martínez)
- Improved the modules of the Wikimedia Dashboard (thanks to Arina Igumenshcheva, Dayllan Maza, Harumi Monroy, Jack Wheeler, Julieta Fernandez, and Katherine Graessle)
As you can see, wishes are very different in complexity and feasibility, so in some cases (such as the “[show/hide]” dropdown button and the CSS sanitizer) we were able to resolve all or at least most of the it, others (such as the Wikimedia Dashboard modules) are more experimental in nature, and we could only do some improvements without resolving it completely. Our work will be used to guide the direction of teams in this regard.
Some 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.
Media formats, editing, and display
Template recall and discovery
Help content reviewers more efficiently manage their repetitive tasks
Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks
Recent wishes
These are the recently submitted wishes. You can learn more about each individual wish, and see other wishes in the 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? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A way to see why a file is somewhere underneath a specific category (tool to show cat-path) | Unassigned | Feature request | Wikimedia Commons | June 19, 2025 | Open |
| (Commons) file description pages should be indexable by (Google) search | Improved discovery of media files | Bug report | Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wikisource | June 19, 2025 | In progress |
| Do something about Google & DuckDuckGo search not indexing media files and categories on Commons | Improved discovery of media files | System change | Wikimedia Commons | June 18, 2025 | In progress |
| Support for more 3D model types in the media viewer, including GLTF | Unassigned | Feature request | Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons | June 18, 2025 | Blocked |
| An easier way to mass-revdel a single user's contributions | Unassigned | Feature request | Wikipedia | June 17, 2025 | Submitted |