Community Wishlist Survey
| Description | The Community Wishlist Survey is an annual survey that allows contributors to the Wikimedia projects to propose and vote for tools and platform improvements. Have you ever needed to see an improvement in the functionality of the Wiki software? Do you have an idea for a new tool to make the platforms more usable and functional? Do you want to support someone else's idea for such an improvement? Participating in the Survey is just the way to make that happen. By participating in the Community Wishlist Survey, you can affect what platform changes the Community Tech, a Wikimedia Foundation team is working on. You can also work with the Community Tech to build these tools. |
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| Primary recommendation | 2. Improve User Experience |
| Secondary recommendation(s) | 4. Equity in Decision-making |
| Regional focus | Global |
| Links | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey/FAQ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Help_us |
| Stage | Planning / Preparing |
| Seeking collaboration? | Yes |
| Seeking collaboration with | Affiliates, Spanish-speaking and Mandarin-speaking contributors |
| Collaboration needs | Exchange to learn from each other • Replicate/Adapt our activity somewhere else |
| Contact person | NRodriguez (WMF) |
| Wikimedia affiliation | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Wikimedia Foundation team | Wishlist |
The creation of the Community Tech team is a direct outcome of requests from core contributors for improved support for moderation tools, bots, and the other features that help the Wikimedia projects succeed.
This survey process was developed by Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team, who run a wishlist survey on the German-language Wikipedia.
In November, 2015, Community Tech conducted the first Community Wishlist Survey, to help identify the features and fixes that are most important to Wikimedia editors. The team invited contributors from all Wikimedia projects to submit proposals. After two weeks of collecting proposals, the team asked them to vote on the proposals they were most interested in. The process has been repeated every year since and it has been an integral part of staying connected with the Communities to support Knowledge as a Service and Knowledge equity. It is strongly related to the #2 and #4 Recommendations in Movement Strategy.