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Community Tech manages the
Community Wishlist
, a forum for contributors from all Wikimedia projects to suggest and comment on product and technology changes and improvements.
We leverage the Wishlist to collaborate with editors, volunteer developers, and other Wikimedia teams to turn community-identified needs into real solutions, and work on priority wishes.
✨ Make a Wish or support Wishlist ideas
The team
Mike Eztuinaga
Lead Technical Program Manager
Karolin Siebert
Engineering Manager
Cormac Parle
Principal Software Engineer
Dayllan Maza
Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead
Tim Starling
Principal Software Architect
Joydeep Sengupta
Principal User Experience Designer
Harumi Monroy
Senior Software Engineer
MusikAnimal
Staff Software Engineer
Sam Wilson
Staff Software Engineer
Sammy Fox
Software Engineer
Dom Walden
Test Engineer
George Mikesell
Test Engineer
Luca Martinelli [Sannita]
Movement Communications Specialist
Ruth O'Donoghue
Senior UX Designer
🛠️ How We Work
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We are a small team with limited resources, and balance our efforts across three categories:
Building tooling to advance the Community Wishlist
Maintenance
of existing tools and features supported by the Community Tech team
Delivering on wishes, primarily by adopting Focus Areas supported by volunteers.
When we say "no" to a given request, we are merely stating it goes against our current priorities.
When working and communicating with us:
Please be calm, civil, and assume we’re working in good faith.
We aim to respond promptly but can't guarantee immediate replies.
Sometimes, we may need to close a conversation if it takes too much of our time or attention.
We can not handle projects on another team's roadmap or ones that conflict with their work, but we will direct you to the right person when possible.
We can not discuss staffing or confidential issues.
Current selected projects
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Community Tech is currently wrapping up carry-over work from the 2023 Wishlist. Beginning in 2024-25, the team will adopt community-supported Focus Areas via the new Community Wishlist.
Projects
Project status
Multiple Watchlists
In development
Support full colour 3D models on Wikimedia projects
In development
Make the Chart extension beginner-friendly
In development
📢 Latest Updates
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April 7, 2026: What we have done so far and what the team will be working on in the next months
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Hello everyone! This time, we have a lot of news to share regarding the work done so far, and what’s coming next. This will also be the format going forward to provide more visibility into work.
The work we did in the last month
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First of all, we are wrapping up work on
Watchlist labels
on all projects. This new feature allows users to add labels to items in their watchlist to help with managing and filtering watchlists, especially large ones. So far, 1,595 users across projects have created at least one label, and 3,554 labels have been created, for a total of 250,279 watchlist pages that have been assigned a label. We are happy about these initial results, and we expect these statistics to grow with time.
Other smaller wishes that we implemented in the last month are:
"Preview page with this template" should not work with pages that do not transclude the template
, a bug with the preview page feature;
Google & DuckDuckGo search not indexing media files and categories on Commons
, a wish related to the indexing of Commons on two main search engines that had quite some support;
Allow editors to subscribe to community wishes
, to allow editors to receive a cross-wiki notification if there is an update or reply;
Editing mathematics is too difficult
, a wish that requires simplifying the insertion of maths formulas in articles.
What we currently have in progress
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We are also wrapping up work to be completed in the next few months, in collaboration with other Wikimedia Foundation teams, on wishes such as:
Prevent VisualEditor from fabricating sources
, that would fix a bug when generating automatically a reference through VisualEditor;
Enable mul tags from Wikidata in the global watchlist
, to let watchlists show the multilingual label from Wikidata when a local label isn’t entered;
Three wishes related to Video2Commons
subtitle import
max resolution import
, and
enabling importing playlists
);
Allow abuse filters to be hidden to only oversighters
, a request to mask private information needed for AbuseFilter needs;
When searching Commons, under "Categories and Pages" show the category for the search term
, a wish that was already
presented in 2021
What we are scoping next
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Looking ahead, we already identified our priorities for the months to come, and it is a lot of work! Here’s a sneak peak at some of the work we defined as our next priorities:
Add the "hide templates" option to What links here page
, a wish that already made
top 6 in the 2022 Community Wishlist survey
and that has quite some support in its resolution by users now, that focuses on removing articles from “What links here” page if included in a template, rather than included directly in the text;
Edit introduction instead of the entire article
, a wish that asks for the possibility of editing only the incipit of an article, instead of opening the whole article in order to do it;
we’re also about to conclude work on
Make "Who Wrote That" tool and P&E Dashboard's Authorship Highlighting feature work in all languages
, a wish about improving two well-used tools in the community.
We will also keep on our table the
Support full colour 3D models on Wikimedia projects
, a very popular wish among those submitted with 37 supporters. The team has already started working on it and is resolving new productionalization dependencies now. We also are continuing to evaluate and plan on how to scope and decompose
Make the Chart extension beginner-friendly
, since this is another well-supported wish (see
discussion page
to add feedback).
Meanwhile, we are working closely with other teams to solve other wishes, such as:
Warn when large amount of content has been copy-pasted
, that asks to warn users when they insert a large amount of content, and that will add a tag to the edit, so that patrollers are aware of a possible problem (we are working on this with the Editing team);
Add Wikipedia Mobile App’s Reading Lists to the Website
, to port the reading list functionality to the website, currently done with a browser extension (we are working on this with the Readers team);
Make subreferencing work with inline refs and reflist
, to expand the usability of the new subreferencing feature (see also the
project page
).
Some statistics
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We also wanted to share some statistics with you regarding the current situation of wishes:
so far, we closed
44 wishes as fulfilled
(8% of the total of wishes);
we have
17 wishes in progress
and we have
prioritized another 15
(meaning we will start working on them soon), totaling 7% of wishes;
204 wishes are categorized as long-term opportunities
, but we commit to continually revisit these to determine whether some could become actionable in the near future;
78 wishes are considered community responses
and we invite community to look at this to solve them;
79 wishes were closed
due to duplication, alignment with community guidelines rather than technical issues, or lack of feasibility;
lastly, another
87 are still under review
by our various Foundation teams.
These numbers are regularly shifting due to new incoming wishes. For the past two months, we have also been responding to wishes consistently within a week of submission.
We need your feedback
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To provide more transparency about how we triage and prioritize wishes, we want to also update our guidelines with tips on how to write a good wish. Please,
join the discussion
and have your say.
As always, if you have questions or feedback about it, please let us know in the
Community Wishlist’s talk page
. We are eager to hear from you!
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