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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
May 14, 2025: Multiblocks, Favourite templates, and upcoming Wishlist improvements
Multiblocks, the #14 wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023, has been successfully released on four wikis (Polish, German, Italian and Hebrew Wikipedia) and will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks on the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it on the week of June 2. Consult our current deployment schedule on Phabricator to know more.
With Multiblocks, admins get more block options: a sitewide and a partial block can run at the same time with different expiry dates. This eliminates the need to wait for the expiration of one block to apply the other. An admin may want to initially impose a temporary sitewide block on a disruptive user, and later keep their access to specific pages or namespaces restricted. This may be useful in cases of blocking Wikipedians heavily involved in editing specific namespaces or pages.
We are also working on Favourite Templates, a new feature that was suggested by several users, that will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog. We hope this will increase dialog usage and the number of templates added.
Since 2013, experienced volunteers have asked for a more intuitive template selector, exposing popular or most-used templates on the templates dialog. At this stage of work, we are focusing on allowing users to put templates in a “favourite” list, so that their reuse will be easier. We are currently exploring additional ways to help users discover or find templates, and welcome your ideas and feedback.
We will involve Polish and Arabic Wikipedias for piloting this new feature, and we are already evaluating involving other projects for a second phase of piloting. We will keep you posted about this.
Lastly we are working on some improvements to the Wishlist:
- we are exploring new ways to update the status of the focus areas and wishes, to make them more clear to users;
- we will introduce a better way to categorise wishes, as requested, as well as ordering them by date of creation, to make them more browsable;
- and finally, we will introduce (in the upcoming months, probably July-September 2025) a way for users to support individual wishes, and not just focus areas.
We also want to discuss one more consideration for the Wishlist, which we’d like your input. As WMF product teams and developers work off Phabricator to prioritize tasks, some teams have asked for a tighter integration between the Wishlist and Phabricator, so they can evaluate wishes and Phabricator tasks when they prioritize work. We’ve evaluated the data, and approximately 30% of wishes have a Phabricator task already. What is the ideal relationship between the Wishlist and Phabricator, and how should that be represented?
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? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-Wiki Transclusion | Unassigned | Feature request | All projects | la 13-a de junio 2025 | Submitted |
| Direct link on a pdf page | Unassigned | Feature request | All projects | la 13-a de junio 2025 | Open |
| VEで、出典の再利用回数の表示に、何番目の再利用位置かを表示してほしい | Reference management | Feature request | Wikipedia | la 13-a de junio 2025 | Open |
| Improve VE references' automatic names and reuse | Unassigned | System change | Wikipedia, Vikimedia Komunejo | la 12-a de junio 2025 | Open |
| In Commons category deepcategory view mode (wall of images), allow easily filtering offtopic subcats | Unassigned | Feature request | Vikimedia Komunejo | la 10-a de junio 2025 | Submitted |