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The team is grateful for "big ideas" for the Foundation and doesn't ignore them. However, some proposals require a dedicated team other than Community Tech.

You may want to bring attention to your idea, and be part of a conversation about the idea happening elsewhere. Gather feedback and share the proposal. You can do this early on, before the voting phase. This way, contributors can know about the problem and remember to participate and vote for it when the time comes.

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Here's a list of some of the projects that got many votes. Community Tech was committed to work on them but had to decline them. It is unlikely, if not impossible, that the team could work on them this year.

If you decide to copy a proposal from the old survey into the new survey, Community Tech expects you to "adopt" that proposal—meaning that you'll be actively participating in the discussion about that idea, and willing to make changes to the proposal in order to make it a stronger idea when it moves to the voting phase.

You may also submit some proposals that were archived in past years. For example, you may go through unclear proposals, describe them better, and submit them.

It's helpful if you want to post a link to the previous discussion, but please don't copy over the votes and discussion from last year. If there are good points that people made in last year's discussions, include the suggestions or caveats in the new proposal.

If a wish was declined by the Community Tech team, it is not eligible for another submission unless it has been changed significantly.

The 2023 edition starts on ۲۳ ژانویه. You can start working on an idea using the Community Wishlist Survey sandbox. This may allow you to make the details public and invite others to draft an idea with you.

It means out of the area of activity of the Community Tech team.

See also How to create a proposal for detailed explanations.

After the proposal phase, the Community Tech team will review the proposals before the voting phase begins.

The team checks if any proposals have to be declined. If there are any issues that prevent proposals from being accepted into the voting phase, they try to contact the proposals' authors and ask additional questions.

If a proposal is correct, Community Tech members mark it for translation. Then, anyone can translate the proposal to make it understandable for more people.

The final score is a combination of all the above. Next, Community Tech begins to work on the proposals with the highest final scores.

Some of the wishes may be addressed by volunteer developers or other development teams.

In addition to the number of votes, Community Tech takes the complexity of wishes into account. This allows the team to stagger the work and complete more wishes.

Also, focusing only on the number of votes is an equity concern. There are small groups like global groups or communities from small Wikimedia projects. In a simple voting, they could easily be outnumbered, and they would continue to be under-supported.

It varies by year based on the complexity of the wishes.

Community Tech does not commit to a fixed count because the team cannot predict a number. The team strives to complete as many wishes as possible. Completing wishes depends on the complexity and resources, such as the number of engineers and designers on the team for that given year.

There was a time when Community Tech promised the “top N” wishes and tried to grant them between July and June. Sometimes wishes took longer than anticipated due to complexity. Other times it meant the team was rushing to get something finished. Also, this meant the team could get into situations of “over-promising” which could limit volunteers' trust.

In 2020, Community Tech stepped away from promising a total number of wishes they would grant.

In the Wikimedia movement, there are many organizations and individuals who work on technical changes. There are volunteers, Wikimedia affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation. The Community Wishlist Survey is only a project of one organization, the Wikimedia Foundation.

The Wikimedia Foundation has two departments working on technical projects: Product and Technology. In each department, there are many teams. The Community Wishlist Survey is only a project of one team, Community Tech.

…instead of addressing other wishes from older surveys?

Community Tech wants to keep our priorities in line with the communities' priority needs!

As software evolves, so do the users' needs. Sometimes a really good wish from last year isn't so important anymore, or the description has simply become outdated. Conducting the survey annually helps reconfirm what the community needs.

Community Tech also spends part of our time maintaining features they built in the past. This may, and sometimes does affect how effectively the team finishes their work on new changes.

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.