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Community Tech
Community Tech manages the Community Wishlist, a forum for contributors from all Wikimedia projects to suggest and comment on product and technology changes and improvements.
We leverage the Wishlist to collaborate with editors, volunteer developers, and other Wikimedia teams to turn community-identified needs into real solutions, and work on priority wishes.
The team
🛠️ How We Work
We are a small team with limited resources, and balance our efforts across three categories:
- Building tooling to advance the Community Wishlist
- Maintenance of existing tools and features supported by the Community Tech team
- Delivering on wishes, primarily by adopting Focus Areas supported by volunteers.
When we say "no" to a given request, we are merely stating it goes against our current priorities.
When working and communicating with us:
- Please be calm, civil, and assume we’re working in good faith.
- We aim to respond promptly but can't guarantee immediate replies.
- Sometimes, we may need to close a conversation if it takes too much of our time or attention.
- We can not handle projects on another team's roadmap or ones that conflict with their work, but we will direct you to the right person when possible.
- We can not discuss staffing or confidential issues.
Current selected projects
Community Tech is currently wrapping up carry-over work from the 2023 Wishlist. Beginning in 2024-25, the team will adopt community-supported Focus Areas via the new Community Wishlist.
| Projects | Project status |
|---|---|
| Multiple Watchlists |
 In development |
| Multiblocks |
 Tamamlandı |
| Template recall and discovery |
Tamamlandı |
📢 Latest Updates
August 21, 2025: Back from Wikimania and next steps
Hello everyone! We’re back from Wikimania, where we had a presentation about the Community Wishlist. You can read our slides and follow the recording of our presentation on Wikimedia Foundation’s official channel.
We were also pleased to notice that our work of the last months was well received by people at Wikimania, and by the Wikimedia community at large: we had users with extended rights thanking us for our work on Multiblocks, and we noticed that the number of users adopting the Favourite Templates feature is rising. Right before Wikimania, on August 4, 3,916 users were using the feature, with 591 users adopting more than 5 favourites.
As we are back from Wikimania, we are now fully working on the deployment of the new Community Wishlist extension, which will likely be deployed at the beginning of September. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. This may help the CommTech team to prioritize a wish within a focus area.
In order to ensure a connection between community wishes and WMF Annual Plan, and allow for a better prioritization of developers’ work, WMF staff will review and assign statuses to incoming wishes on an ongoing basis, and every three months statuses will be re-assessed in their product domains, to create focus areas, and prioritize the work as necessary. You can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki.
Lastly, in the upcoming weeks we will start working on our next feature: Multiple watchlists under the Task Prioritization focus area. We already have announced in the last update that we were looking for feedback regarding how watchlists and recent changes pages are used across projects, and we are still looking for input from you! In particular, we are interested in knowing which filters you use to select relevant edits, when doing your activities. What is considered best for patrolling, for example?
Thank you in advance for your help!
Further information
- Team Processes
- Development
- Maintenance
- Team Documentation (Drafts in progress)
- Community Tech/Phabricator criteria
