Hi everyone,
We've posted the Community Tech team's first status report on our progress with the Community Wishlist Survey, and you're invited to come and check it out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_report...
In November and December, we invited active contributors to Wikimedia projects to propose, discuss and vote on the features and fixes that they most want to see. 634 people participated in the survey, voting on 107 proposals.
Our team has committed to investigating and responding to the top 10 wishes. In many cases, our team will be designing and building tools ourselves, or collaborating with other teams and volunteers who are working in that area. For the wishes that we can't build this year -- because it's too big for our team, or there's a problem that we can't solve -- then we can at least offer open discussion on the problem, and detailed documentation explaining what we've learned, so the information can be used by other developers in the future.
We've done a preliminary assessment of the top 10, which is described in the status report. As of right now (mid-January), the two items that we're actively working on are #1) Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine, and #7) Pageview Stats tool. Why are we working on those two and not the others? Check out the status report for all the answers.
I'm going to post the quick overview of the top 10 wishes here. Each of these wishes is discussed in detail on the status report page.
1. Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine: Currently in progress, working with a community developer and the Internet Archive. This is one of the two projects we're actively working on now (mid-January).
2. Improved diff compare screen: Needs investigation and community discussion to define the problems that we want to solve.
3. Central repository for templates, gadgets and Lua modules: Needs underlying technical work that's currently under discussion by another team.
4. Cross-wiki watchlist: Needs technical investigation on the existing Crosswatch tool, and the Collaboration team's cross-wiki notifications.
5. Numerical sorting in categories: Investigation is underway. There are a couple potential solutions that we need to figure out.
6. Allow categories in Commons in all languages: Currently talking with Wikidata about using structured metadata to solve the underlying problem.
7. Pageview Stats tool: Currently talking with the Analytics team about their new pageview API. Needs some community discussion to define the front-end spec. This is one of the two projects we're actively working on now (mid-January), because the Analytics team is eager to use the new API that they've developed.
8. Global cross-wiki talk page: Needs community discussion to define the product.
9. Improve copy and paste detection bot: Need to work with volunteer developers to define scope on improving the existing Plagiabot.
10. Add a user watchlist: We've heard significant pushback about the vandal-fighting use case, because of the risk of enabling harassment. Currently investigating an opt-in version that would be useful for mentors, classes, editathons and WikiProjects.
Here's the status report link again, for lots more information:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_report...
Our team is really excited about the work that we'll get to do this year, and we're looking forward to talking and working with you as we go along.
Thanks,
Danny Horn Product Manager WMF - Community Tech User:DannyH (WMF)