Community Tech
Community Tech
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.
The team
🛠️ How We Work
[edit]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
[edit]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
[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!
Further information
[edit]- Team Processes
- Development
- Maintenance
- Team Documentation (Drafts in progress)
- Community Tech/Phabricator criteria
