No one asked for 10 more wishes? :) Thanks Danny and the Community Tech team. This is a great model for working with our Communities. -Toby On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Nirzar Pangarkar <npangarkar(a)wikimedia.org > It's really cool to see community wish list coming together! > > > We're going to talk with the other Wikimedia product teams, to see if > they can take on some of the ideas the the community has expressed interest > in. > > +1 > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:42 AM, Danny Horn <dhorn(a)wikimedia.org> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm happy to announce that the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist >> Survey has concluded, and we're able to announce the top 10 wishes! >> >> 634 people participated in the survey, where they proposed, discussed and >> voted on 107 ideas. There was a two-week period in November to submit and >> endorse proposals, followed by two weeks of voting. The top 10 proposals >> with the most support votes now become the Community Tech team's backlog of >> projects to evaluate and address. >> >> And here's the top 10: >> >> #1. Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine (111 support votes) >> #2. Improved diff compare screen (104) >> #3. Central global repository for templates, gadgets and Lua modules (87) >> #4. Cross-wiki watchlist (84) >> #4. Numerical sorting in categories (84) >> #6. Allow categories in Commons in all languages (78) >> #7. Pageview Stats tool (70) >> #8. Global cross-wiki user talk page (66) >> #9. Improve the "copy and paste detection" bot (63) >> #10. Add a user watchlist (62) >> >> You can see the whole list here, with links to all the proposals and >> Phabricator tickets: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results >> >> So what happens now? >> >> Over the next couple weeks, Community Tech will do a preliminary >> assessment on the top 10, and start figuring out what's involved. We need >> to have a clear definition of the problem and proposed solution, and begin >> to understand the technical, design and community challenges for each one. >> >> Some wishes in the top 10 seem relatively straightforward, and we'll be >> able to dig in and start working on them in the new year. Some wishes are >> going to need a lot of investigation and discussion with other developers, >> product teams, designers and community members. There may be some that are >> just too big or too hard to do at all. >> >> Our analysis will look at the following factors: >> >> * SUPPORT: Overall support for the proposal, including the discussions on >> the survey page. This will take the neutral and oppose votes into account. >> Some of these ideas also have a rich history of discussions on-wiki and in >> bug tickets. For some wishes, we'll need more community discussion to help >> define the problem and agree on proposed solutions. >> >> * FEASIBILITY: How much work is involved, including existing blockers and >> dependencies. >> >> * IMPACT: Evaluating how many projects and contributors will benefit, >> whether it's a long-lasting solution or a temporary fix, and the >> improvement in contributors' overall productivity and happiness. >> >> * RISK: Potential drawbacks, conflicts with other developers' work, and >> negative effects on any group of contributors. >> >> Our plan for 2016 is to complete as many of the top 10 wishes as we can. >> For the wishes in the top 10 that we can't complete, we're responsible for >> investigating them fully and reporting back on the analysis. >> >> So there's going to be a series of checkpoints through the year, where >> we'll present the current status of the top 10 wishes. The first will be at >> the Wikimedia Developer Summit in the first week of January. We're planning >> to talk about the preliminary assessment there, and then share it more >> widely. >> >> If you're eager to follow the whole process as we go along, we'll be >> documenting and keeping notes in two places: >> >> On Meta: 2015 Community Wishlist Survey/Top 10: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Top_10 >> >> On Phabricator: Community Wishlist Survey board: >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/community-wishlist-survey/ >> >> Finally: What about the other 97 proposals? >> >> There were a lot of good and important proposals that didn't happen to >> get quite as many support votes, and I'm sure everybody has at least one >> that they were rooting for. Again, the whole list is here: >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results >> >> We're going to talk with the other Wikimedia product teams, to see if >> they can take on some of the ideas the the community has expressed interest >> in. We're also going to work with the Developer Relations team to see if >> some of these could be taken on by volunteer developers. >> >> It's also possible that Community Tech could take on a small-scale, >> well-defined proposal below the top 10, if it doesn't interfere with our >> commitments to the top 10 wishes. >> >> So there's lots of work to be done, and hooray, we have a whole year to >> do it. If this process turns out to be a success, then we plan to do >> another survey at the end of 2016, to give more people a chance to >> participate, and bring more great ideas. >> >> For everybody who proposed, endorsed, discussed, debated and voted in the >> survey, as well as everyone who said nice things to us recently: thank you >> very much for coming out and supporting live feature development. We're >> excited about the work ahead of us. >> >> We'd also like to thank Wikimedia Deutschland's Technischer >> Communitybedarf team -- they came up with this whole survey process, and >> they've been working successfully on lots of community wishes since their >> first survey in 2013. >> >> You can watch this page for further Community Tech announcements: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/News >> >> Thanks! >> >> Danny Horn >> Product Manager, WMF Community Tech >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wmfall mailing list >> Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > >