User:Udehb-WMF/Drafts/Community Tech
Community Tech
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
Jack Wheeler
Lead Community Tech Manager
Karolin Siebert
Engineering Manager
Cormac Parle
Principal Software Engineer
Dayllan Maza
Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead
Tim Starling
Principal Software Architect
Joydeep Sengupta
Principal User Experience Designer
Harumi Monroy
Senior Software Engineer
MusikAnimal
Staff Software Engineer
Sam Wilson
Staff Software Engineer
TheresNoTime
Software Engineer
Sandister Tei
Movement Communications Specialist
Dom Walden
Test Engineer
George Mikesell
Test Engineer
🛠️ How We Work
editWe 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
editCommunity 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 |
|---|---|
| Multiblocks |
 In development |
| Edit-Recovery Feature |
In development |
// add in the Community Wishlist/Focus areas/Template recall and discovery (in planning) // recently done: QR Share
📢 Latest Updates
edit- October 22, 2024. General updates to the Community Wishlist
- Since launching on July 15, we have fielded over 315 wishes; approximately 25% of these wishes were written in non-English. We've also released 5 Focus Areas, with a goal to publish at least 6 more focus areas before the end of 2024.
- Machine translations of wishes. To increase participation in the Wishlist, volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content. Our goal is to make Wishlist content more accessible. We are inviting you to try this out by activating the “WishlistTranslation” gadget preference on MetaWiki. Please see below a screenshot of the section where you can turn on the feature. Please bear in mind that these machine translations are not human-reviewed. Therefore, the quality of translations will vary, and we welcome any feedback from you via the Community Wishlist talkpage.
- Multiblocks. The Community Tech team is focused on delivering Multiblocks, the #14 wish in the Community Wishlist Survey from 2023. This is carry-over work from our previous annual plan, with the goal to introduce layering blocks. To build this new capability, we've also re-written the Special:Block page in Codex.
- Template Recall and Discovery: Community Tech is writing out a technical plan to introduce Favoriting Templates, our first feature and capability identified via our Template Recall and Discovery focus area. We anticipate work on this starting in November 2024.
Further information
edit- Community Tech/Team Processes
- Community Tech/Development
- Community Tech/Maintenance
- Community Tech/Phabricator criteria
