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
editAugust 21, 2025: Back from Wikimania and next steps
editHello 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 more tags to their wishes, to better categorise them, and to better sort them by status, date of update, or tag. It will be also possible again to support individual wishes, as requested by the community in many instances.
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 work as necessary. You can follow the current documentation on MediaWiki.
Lastly, in the upcoming weeks we will start working on our next feature: multiple watchlists. 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!
Some focus areas
editBelow 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
editThese 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? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| An annotation tool | Unassigned | Feature request | Wikipedia, Wikisource | August 25, 2025 | Submitted |
| Allow use of modern CSS in templates by updating the TemplateStyles CSS sanitizer | Unassigned | Unknown | All projects | August 22, 2025 | Delivered |
| Two new Magic Words for number of unique linked pages/articles on a page | Unassigned | Feature request | Wikipedia | August 16, 2025 | Submitted |
| Add a few more color pairs in Codex design tokens | Unassigned | Feature request | Wikipedia | August 15, 2025 | Submitted |
| Filter watchlist by user set for greater productivity | Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks | Feature request | All projects | August 15, 2025 | Open |