Community Wishlist
The Community Wishlist is a forum for Wikimedia project contributors to share ideas or "Wishes" aligned with strategic goals targeted through the Annual Plan 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, edited and voted on by fellow volunteers, and accepted by the Foundation. Wishes that do not correspond to strategic priorities will be declined.
- The Foundation then reviews all new wishes, identifies common themes across wishes, and turns these themes into focus areas. Focus areas help us move beyond individual solutions, which might only work for certain use cases, and instead identify and solve as many of the biggest, most impactful problems as possible.
- Contributors may support and comment on focus areas, which will then be adopted by Wikimedia Foundation teams, Community Tech, affiliates, or volunteer developers.
📢 Latest Updates
[edit]February 18, 2026: Update on current and future work
[edit]Hello everyone! We have some more news to share regarding the work done so far, and what’s coming next in our line of work.
First of all, we successfully deployed 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, 1,088 users across projects have created at least one label, and 2,325 labels have been created, for a total of 76,459 watchlist pages that have been assigned a label. We are happy about these initial results, and we expect these statistics to grow with time.
Our team’s work is not done, by the way. We will take up two new wishes from the community. The first one will be “Add the "hide templates" option to What links here page”, previously wish #6 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022, that focuses on removing articles from “What links here” page if included in a template, rather than included directly in the text.
The second one will be “Support full colour 3D models on Wikimedia projects”, a very popular wish among those submitted with 34 supporters. The team will probably work on it starting from what the community has already done in the past on the matter.
We also are evaluating and planning on how to scope and decompose “Make the Chart extension beginner-friendly”, since it's a very open wish. This is another very popular wish among those submitted. We will keep you posted on relevant developments.
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!
Below is the first batch of focus areas. Each focus area is comprised of three or more wishes that share an underlying problem.
These are the recently submitted wishes. You can learn more about each individual wish, and see other wishes in the same focus areas. If you don't find what you are searching for, you are welcomed to submit your wish for consideration.
