Hello everyone,

Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey>. The inaugural community edition will take place from March 15th to 17th, 2024. You can learn more and sign up here: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WishathonMarch2024>.

Since May 2022, the Community Tech team has organized five Wishathons <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wishathon> internal to Foundation staff to bring greater technical capacity to address open wishes and promote collaboration on wishes within the product & technology teams. Since the inception of the Wishathon, Foundation staff have helped Community Tech complete work on 10 wishes that were otherwise stalling or incomplete. This next edition of the Wishathon extends to Wikimedia contributors as a next step in these efforts.

If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you are welcome to join the event! If you wish to take part in the Wishathon, you can register for the event on this wiki page: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WishathonMarch2024>. Organizers will send a message to your talk page with more details about the event in January 2024 and post updates on this page.

Read the full announcement: <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/11/introducing-wishathon-for-wikimedias-community-wishlist/>

Cheers,
Srishti

On behalf of the Wishathon organizing committee