Related wish: W43 – Allow editors to subscribe to community wishes
Problem
Having just gone through every singe wish doing the migration, I noticed we have a clunky, unstructured means of making notes about a wish visible to everyone reading it.
Examples:
- Banner at the top of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/W217
- Message embedded in the description at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/W28
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/W84
- …
In addition, these updates don't notify the users. They may never be informed an update even happened.
Proposal
Add a new section, "Updates", where Community Wishlist managers can help add context to the wish, explain decision-making (such as why a wish was declined), or to announce general updates on the wish.
As a bonus, this will mean it's possible to leverage DiscussionTools so that users are notified when new updates are added. For now, this would require the user subscribe to the "Updates" section.
Imagine an updates section that looks like:
- Wish created --WishProposer (talk) 20:44, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
- Status changed to "In progress" -- MusikAnimal (WMF) 18:42, 10 October 2025 (UTC)
- Add to focus area "Template recall and discovery" CParle (WMF) 2:10, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
- Status changed to "Done" KSiebert (WMF) 15:47, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
Where each comment is presented as a bulleted item and signed by the user who made the update (as signatures are required to send out the DiscussionTools notification).
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