In case any folks on this list aren't aware, the following announcement relating to the disbanding of the Community Tech team was made at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/Updates#May_20,_2026:_Com...:
May 20, 2026: Community Tech becomes a program
Hello all, my name is Suman https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SCherukuwada_(WMF) and I'm the Deputy Chief Product & Technology Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm writing to share with all of you that we've decided to do some internal restructuring about how WMF responds to and supports wishes. After noticing that having a centralized team was leading to frequent bottlenecks and delays as CommTech staff coordinated with other teams, we've decided to shift Community Tech into a program that multiple teams are officially responsible for supporting. This is a model that has proven success already https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/Updates#The_work_we_did_in_the_last_month, but it will involve disbanding the Community Tech team and the roles of five engineers and one manager. We still have dedicated staff managing the wishlist intake and triage process and will continue the same financial support for this work, just under a different structure.
Moving forward, the wishlist will continue to work on wishes from across languages and wikis, and complements many of the other channels where we regularly hear ideas and feedback from volunteers (talk pages, Village Pumps, chat platforms, calls, conferences, etc.) Our latest community update https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/Updates#May_13,_2026:_Latest_updates_from_the_Community_Tech_team offers a detailed update about our progress over the last month, including completing a wish for tagging and tracking which pages users need to edit and adding new languages to “Who Wrote That” and the P&E Dashboard. In the coming weeks and months, we hope you all will continue to see an uptick in the speed and number of wishes we are able to address over time via our monthly statistics https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/Updates#Some_statistics.
There are discussions about this announcement occurring at (at least) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Wishlist#May_20_update & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#WMF_Community_Tec....
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