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 <npangar...@wikimedia.org
> wrote:

> 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 <dh...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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