Community Wishlist

See also: Wishlists

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.

Community Wishlist

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.
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📢 Latest Updates

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June 18, 2025: Results of our last Wishathon sprint

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Hello everyone! We wanted to share with you the results of the recently closed “Wishathon”, our internal hackathon organized by Community Tech to help fulfill more wishes from Community Wishlist.

The Wishathon, which ran from Monday 19 to Friday 23 May, engaged Wikimedia Foundation staff to help fulfill more wishes, and also foster cross-team and cross-departmental collaboration.

22 patches were written during the week, of which 4 were already merged. This allowed us to grant three wishes from the community, and we have a clearer path ahead for five more wishes.

The wishes granted through our Wishathon include:

In addition to that, we also worked on the following tasks and wishes:

As you can see, wishes are very different in complexity and feasibility, so in some cases (such as the “[show/hide]” dropdown button and the CSS sanitizer) we were able to resolve all or at least most of the it, others (such as the Wikimedia Dashboard modules) are more experimental in nature, and we could only do some improvements without resolving it completely. Our work will be used to guide the direction of teams in this regard.

Previous updates

Some focus areas

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Below is the first batch of focus areas. Each focus area is comprised of three or more wishes that share an underlying problem.

Submitted

Media formats, editing, and display

Volunteers noted the importance of supporting new file formats and improving features and tools that can allow users to upload high-efficiency images to Wikimedia sites, have an easier editing experience and improved use of media players.
In progress

Template recall and discovery

We're building a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, to increase dialog usage and the number of templates added.
Submitted

Help content reviewers more efficiently manage their repetitive tasks

Help content reviewers more efficiently manage their repetitive tasks, so they can focus more on editing articles or other on-wiki activities. We'll know we're successful if we can cut down on the number of edits in review and improve moderator satisfaction.
Submitted

Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks

Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks, so they can more efficiently review and uphold the quality of content on their wikis. We'll know we're successful if this work improves editor or patroller satisfaction and reduces the "queue" of things to review.

Recent wishes

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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?
A set of tools for image editing directly in Wikimedia Commons Media formats, editing, and display Feature request Wikimedia Commons 2025-07-10T18:59:06.000ZJuly 10, 2025 Open
Enabling the MediaWiki InputBox to use the new MediaSearch instead of SpecialSearch on Commons Improved discovery of media files Feature request Wikimedia Commons 2025-07-10T06:22:41.000ZJuly 10, 2025 In progress
Make available Montserrat font for Wikimedia pages to use Unassigned System change All projects 2025-07-08T17:56:39.000ZJuly 8, 2025 Submitted
Show diffs below revision entries on page history, user contributions, and recent changes on demand Unassigned Feature request All projects 2025-07-03T14:38:43.000ZJuly 3, 2025 Submitted
Quickly add favorite and related templates Template recall and discovery Feature request All projects 2025-07-02T04:23:43.000ZJuly 2, 2025 In progress