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The Community Wishlist is a forum for Wikimedia project contributors to share ideas or "Wishes" to improve our product and technology, and then collaborate with each other and the Wikimedia Foundation to prioritize and solve these opportunities together.

In order to build sustainable, multi-generational software, the Wikimedia Foundation needs to hear from, and collaborate with volunteers about challenges and opportunities to improve our product and technology.

How it works:

• Volunteers can submit a wish (feature request, bug fix, system change) at any time. We encourage users to submit a wish in their native language.
• Submitted wishes can be reviewed, commented, and edited by fellow volunteers, and accepted by the Foundation.
• The Foundation will connect the dots between wishes and suggest Focus Areas back to the communities. Focus areas help us identify and solve as many of the biggest, most impactful problems as possible.
• Contributors may vote and comment on Focus areas, which will then by adopted by WMF teams, Community Tech, affiliates, or volunteer developers.

Focus areas

Coming soon!

Starting in August 2024, the Foundation will release its first batch of focus areas. Each focus area is comprised of three or more wishes that share an underlying problem.

How to write a good wish

While there is no official rubric for writing a "good wish," we encourage wish proposers to articulate a problem they face without providing an explicit solution, so that volunteers and staff have space to problem-solve together.

Wishes that demonstrate empathy and show a user's challenges and goals avoids the pitfalls of being too niche or specific, and where other users may nitpick the solution.

In the example below, both the problem-led and solution-led wish examples hint at improving "new editor" experiences.

The problem-led example leaves the solution open-ended and invites collaboration, whereas the solution-led example might receive negative feedback from contributors who resist renaming a user sandbox.

Thus, the problem-led wish might have a higher chance of being assigned to a focus area.

	Problem-led Wish (encouraged)	Solution-led Wish (discouraged)
Title	Make it easier for newcomers to create their first article	Rename sandbox to “Draft editor”
Description	Especially for new editors, it can be hard to find a user sandbox. Once they find their sandbox, new editors see a number of disclaimers that make it hard to gain confidence in writing a good quality article. This impacts a newcomer's ability to onboard to Wikipedia and feel confident as a contributor. This is in part by design – we need to be mindful of patroller workflows – but the experience hinders our ability to onboard new editors.	The term “Sandbox” is confusing to new users. Let's rename it to “Draft editor” so that people are more likely to open a draft article.
Type	System change	Feature request
Project	Wikipedia	Wikipedia
Users affected	New editors and, downstream, patrollers who review new edits	Editors
Phab tasks	optional	T123456

Frequently asked questions

How long do I have to submit wishes?

The Community Wishlist will remain open. There is no deadline for wish submission.

What are "focus areas"?

The Foundation will identify patterns with wishes that share a collective problem and group them into areas known as "focus areas." The grouping of wishes will begin in August 2024, based on wish submissions from July 2024 and onward.

How do we influence prioritization?

Participants are encouraged to discuss and vote on focus areas to highlight their importance.

How will this new system move wishes forward for addressing?

The Wikimedia Foundation, affiliates, and volunteer developers can adopt focus areas. The Foundation is committed to integrating two or more focus areas in 2024—25, and will incorporate even more focus areas into our Annual Planning for 2025—26.

Focus areas align to hypotheses (specific projects, typically taking up to one quarter) and key results (broader projects taking up to one year).

How do I submit a wish? Has anything changed about submissions?

You can return to this page on July 15 to submit wishes.

There have been changes to made to what we would like to see in wishes. Please see the above guide for more information.