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Since December 2025, creating a wish automatically adds a proposer vote, but proposer votes for wishes created earlier have not been backfilled. (T415231)
Some wishes have been declined as duplicates, but thier votes have not been transferred to the wishes they were deemed duplicates of. (T418937)
A new vote for a wish or focus area removes votes by users who have since been renamed. (T412648)
Some wishes were accidentally declined or marked done (or vice versa) during the October 2025 system migration (stats).
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Below is a summary of all the ideas that were shared during the workshop I hosted at Wikimania. Thank you to everyone who participated! As a next step, I will work on a proposal consolidating these ideas and other learnings from prior wish years and earlier conversations. Please comment below if I missed anything in the meantime.
Have a committee of community members and staff to do triage
Keep the overall process simple, responsive, and impactful
Involve the community and create an open and transparent process
To make it easy to submit wishes, ask for problems & solutions, and don’t commit to delivering the solution exactly as requested
Allow both problems and solutions to be presented, and connect solutions to problems during triage
Connect impossible or bad wishes to problems as well and reframe or offer alternate solutions before voting
There were some concerns around declining impossible wishes, with the proposal to keep them all open in case someone else ever wants to pick them up / the become possible later
Consider complexity (keeping in mind new and experienced users)
Suggestions:
Preliminary effort estimates (T-Shirt sizing)
Sizing should be relative, not absolute
Deduplication
Clarification & refinement, linking content to other tickets/wishes and explain why it hasn’t been done yet
Small communities should have a way for their wishes to be selected otherwise
Set a contingent for special interest groups, such as users with extended rights, smaller wikis, Global South etc.
Categorize wishes by the amount of resources needed for implementation, and then pick the top 5 or 10 of large & small wishes to avoid only having wishes that are easy to implement
Assign more points to underrepresented groups
Factor in how long a wish has been an issue
Rank wishes by votes
Open questions:
Should impact be a factor? Conflicting opinions:
Impact should not be a factor because impact is already determined by the number of votes
A super late reply, but in our group B, we changed our mind on the dual voting during the discussion already, as suggested impact voting only would convey the same without confusing people as much. With Area C, there is still work to be done on making this a truly community-led prioritization. I can come back in September trying to write a proposal on how this could work, if that works in terms of timeline. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 07:51, 13 August 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, Femke! I've been working on a proposal pulling all these things together as well and hope to be able to post it for community input by the end of the month. So that works great with your proposed timing -- you could share your reactions and feedback to my proposal in early September and potentially offer an alternate proposal as well if you have one. SPerry-WMF (talk) 20:16, 13 August 2026 (UTC)Reply
Wish submission will open at the beginning of October, until Nov 8, 2026. We are currently updating the process and the form. We have a banner scheduled, but for later. Could you share more details about this banner, please? Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 14:47, 29 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hi @WhatamIdoing! You're welcome to use the current form for submitting a wish, everything is functioning and the wish will be captured. We're working on updating the form to match the new process, so if you can wait for a couple of weeks you'd be able to see the new intake form, which would be a bit cleaner on our side, but either way is totally fine. Glad to hear you're eager to submit your ideas! SPerry-WMF (talk) 17:37, 30 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
