Hi everyone,
The Community Tech team is happy to announce the top 10 wishes from the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey!
More than 1,100 people participated in the survey this year -- proposing, discussing and voting on 265 ideas. There was a two-week period in November to submit and discuss proposals, followed by two weeks of support voting. The top 10 proposals with the most support votes now become Community Tech's backlog of projects to evaluate and address.
And here's the top 10:
#1. Global gadgets (91 support votes) #2. Edit summary length for non-Latin languages (90) #3. Section heading URLs for non-Latin languages (88) #4. Global settings (84) #5. Rewrite Xtools (84) #6. Wikitext editor syntax highlighting (82) #7. Warning on unsuccessful login attempts (73) #8. Automatic archive for new external links (72) #9. Fix Mr. Z-bot's popular pages report (72) #10. User rights expiration (70)
You can see the whole list here, with links to proposals and Phabricator tickets: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
So -- who's going to work on all these wishes?
The Community Tech team is responsible for investigating and addressing the top 10 wishes. If there's a wish in the top 10 that we can't work on, because it's unfeasible or because another group is working on it, then we'll explain what's happened.
Community Tech will also pick up some wishes below the top 10 that support smaller user groups who are doing important work, but don't have the numbers to vote a proposal all the way up to the top 10. This will apply to some combination of: campaign and program organizers, GLAM participants, stewards and CheckUsers, and people working on smaller projects or smaller languages. We haven't determined which wishes we'll pick up yet; we'll be talking about these as we get into 2017.
Also, some of these wishes will be granted by volunteer developers; the Technical Collaboration team will help to connect volunteers with important wishes that they can work on.
Some of these wishes are or will be on the roadmap for our colleagues on the WMDE Technical Wishes team, and other Wikimedia Foundation product teams.
To get updates on our progress:
There are project pages for each of the top 10 wishes, which you can put on your watchlist. We'll update them as the project progresses. (At time of writing, these are just skeletons; actual information on each project is still to come.) Feel free to post questions and suggestions on the project talk pages: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Community_Tech_-_Current_projects
If you're familiar with the Phabricator ticketing system, the main Phab task for each wish is noted on the Results page. You can subscribe to those tickets for updates.
We also publish several status reports through the year, to keep people updated. You can watch the main Community Tech page for updates: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech
There are more questions and answers on the Wishlist Survey FAQ: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/FAQ
Thanks to everybody who proposed, discussed, debated and voted on ideas in this year's Wishlist Survey, to everyone who's said nice things to us recently, and to all people everywhere in time and space, on general principles. Danny Horn Sr Product Manager, Community Tech
Thanks Danny
Some excellent projects. Great to see so many that will benefit more than just the EN WP community such as global gadgets, non-Latin language improvements and global settings.
:-) J
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Danny Horn dhorn@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
The Community Tech team is happy to announce the top 10 wishes from the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey!
More than 1,100 people participated in the survey this year -- proposing, discussing and voting on 265 ideas. There was a two-week period in November to submit and discuss proposals, followed by two weeks of support voting. The top 10 proposals with the most support votes now become Community Tech's backlog of projects to evaluate and address.
And here's the top 10:
#1. Global gadgets (91 support votes) #2. Edit summary length for non-Latin languages (90) #3. Section heading URLs for non-Latin languages (88) #4. Global settings (84) #5. Rewrite Xtools (84) #6. Wikitext editor syntax highlighting (82) #7. Warning on unsuccessful login attempts (73) #8. Automatic archive for new external links (72) #9. Fix Mr. Z-bot's popular pages report (72) #10. User rights expiration (70)
You can see the whole list here, with links to proposals and Phabricator tickets: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
So -- who's going to work on all these wishes?
The Community Tech team is responsible for investigating and addressing the top 10 wishes. If there's a wish in the top 10 that we can't work on, because it's unfeasible or because another group is working on it, then we'll explain what's happened.
Community Tech will also pick up some wishes below the top 10 that support smaller user groups who are doing important work, but don't have the numbers to vote a proposal all the way up to the top 10. This will apply to some combination of: campaign and program organizers, GLAM participants, stewards and CheckUsers, and people working on smaller projects or smaller languages. We haven't determined which wishes we'll pick up yet; we'll be talking about these as we get into 2017.
Also, some of these wishes will be granted by volunteer developers; the Technical Collaboration team will help to connect volunteers with important wishes that they can work on.
Some of these wishes are or will be on the roadmap for our colleagues on the WMDE Technical Wishes team, and other Wikimedia Foundation product teams.
To get updates on our progress:
There are project pages for each of the top 10 wishes, which you can put on your watchlist. We'll update them as the project progresses. (At time of writing, these are just skeletons; actual information on each project is still to come.) Feel free to post questions and suggestions on the project talk pages: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Community_Tech_-_Current_projects
If you're familiar with the Phabricator ticketing system, the main Phab task for each wish is noted on the Results page. You can subscribe to those tickets for updates.
We also publish several status reports through the year, to keep people updated. You can watch the main Community Tech page for updates: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech
There are more questions and answers on the Wishlist Survey FAQ: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/FAQ
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Just a general observation: Making things "global" can be good or bad for non-wikipedia projects depending on how it's done; spreading uniformity across projects could also damage non-wikipedia projects by imposing inappropriate infrastructure. I'm not totally cynical about the idea, just noting one needs to be careful. (A case that comes to mind: I use HotCat all the time on Wikinews, which in some important ways is as different from Wikipedia as a wiki can be, yet HotCat is atm inappropriate for Wikibooks and could cause problems there.)
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:05 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Great to see so many that will benefit more than just the EN WP community such as global gadgets, non-Latin language improvements and global settings.
Yes, for sure. We don't want to impose anything on wikis that don't want or can't use it.
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:21 AM, pi zero wn.pi.zero@gmail.com wrote:
Just a general observation: Making things "global" can be good or bad for non-wikipedia projects depending on how it's done; spreading uniformity across projects could also damage non-wikipedia projects by imposing inappropriate infrastructure. I'm not totally cynical about the idea, just noting one needs to be careful. (A case that comes to mind: I use HotCat all the time on Wikinews, which in some important ways is as different from Wikipedia as a wiki can be, yet HotCat is atm inappropriate for Wikibooks and could cause problems there.)
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:05 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Great to see so many that will benefit more than just the EN WP community such as global gadgets, non-Latin language improvements and global settings.
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