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 |
| Multiblocks |
 Done |
| Template recall and discovery |
Done |
📢 Latest Updates
[edit]January 7, 2026: Update to statuses and to users’ watchlists
[edit]Hello everyone! For the first update of 2026, we got some interesting news to share with you.
First of all, we will revisit slightly the statuses for wishes, to better align our work with the needs of the users: more specifically, the “accepted” status will be merged with the “under review” status, and we will open the possibility to vote “under review” wishes; moreover, we will remove the “unsupported” status, that will be merged with the “community opportunity” status. This will mean that “unsupported” wishes can be part of the workstream of the Unsupported Tools Working Group, that has recently started an independent process to resolve some of these issues through shorter development cycles. In the next few days, we will update accordingly the statuses of the involved wishes.
In addition to this, we have some changes to Special:Watchlist that are coming, as part of our current work on the Watchlist labels project:
- we will update the display of Special:EditWatchlist as a first step towards watchlist labels;
- we will update pagination on Special:Search, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation wish.
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
