Hello there! I am writing to let you know that the third round of community calls about Wikimedia Commons,[1] to help prioritize support efforts from Wikimedia Foundation for the 2025-2026 Fiscal Year, will take place next week.

Our next call will focus on tool investment priority. There are constant calls from the community for the Foundation to adopt community-made tools in order to maintain workflows for the contributors that depend on them. The range of these tools varies widely, and includes media upload (e.g. Video2Commons), editing (e.g. CropTool), curation (e.g. Cat-a-lot) and metrics (e.g. BaGLAMa) tools. Batch upload and metrics tools are said to be critical for the affiliates and Wikimedians in Residence who partner with libraries and other cultural institutions to illustrate Wikipedia. They need to be able to contribute files efficiently at scale, and report on the impact of these contributions. However, community surveys have identified more than 30 different tools that are used for content partnerships.

More specifically the questions will be: 1) Does it make sense for the Foundation to invest in supporting the wide range of community-developed tools that don’t have active maintainers, or should a smaller set of critical workflows be enabled through new or improved features in core products? 2) Which tool would you recommend to prioritise? Something community-facing or GLAM-facing or video-related or something else?

The call will take place at two different time slots: * The first one will be on January 15, at 08:00 UTC,[2] and it will be hosted on Zoom by Senior Director of Product Management Runa Bhattacharjee; you can subscribe to it on Meta;[3] * The second one will be on January 15, at 16:00 UTC,[4] and it will be hosted on Zoom by Chief Product & Technology Officer Selena Deckelmann; you can subscribe to it on Meta.[5]

If you cannot attend the meeting, you are invited to express your point of view at any time you want on the Commons community calls talk page.[6] We will also post the notes of the meeting on the project page, to give the possibility to read what was discussed also to those who couldn’t attend it.

If you want, you are invited to share this invitation with all the people you think might be interested in this call.

We hope to see you and/or read you very soon!

Luca/Sannita

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WMF_support_for_Commons/Commons_c... [2] https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1736928000 [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Commons_community_discussion_-_15_Janu... [4] https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1736956800 [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Commons_community_discussion_-_15_Janu... [6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:WMF_support_for_Commons/Comm...