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The [[Community Wishlist Survey]] is an endeavour to get a prioritized list of software development tasks that would help the core community of active Wikimedia editors. There're always more tasks than developers who can work on them; the wishlist is an attempt to make sure we work on the things that will help a larger number of editors.

However, these editors are spread out over roughly 800 wikis. They edit in almost 300 languages. The Wikimedia movement communicate mainly in English, which many editors don't speak, or feel comfortable communicating in. Even when they do, we organize cross-movementinterwiki decisions like this on Meta, where few editors feel at home – many rarely leave the wikis where they normally edit. Decisions are normally taken on the local wikis; however, this would lead to a very fragmented process where the communities wouldn't discuss with each other, and would require an enormous amount of time and resources to coordinate. The Wikimedia Foundation typically doesn't have a lot of time to assign to any particular process – what in many organizations would have been taken care of by multiple persons can be tasked to someone who is trying to handle it at the same time as taking care of other responsibilities. The Wikimedia movement also depend on translators who do what they feel like prioritizing in their valuable spare time; they will make their own decisions on whether something like a wishlist survey is where their time is best spent.