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Pick a 2026 date for all wikis to vote on Wishlist wishes, then market it
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Why

What

  • Pick a date period for the marketing campaign.
  • Market it
    • Central notice banners from TBD date to TBD date
    • Anything else?

Notes

  • I would suggest copying what the old wishlist from a couple years ago did, which was holding it in December.
  • Does anyone remember how many days/weeks it typically was?
  • Does anyone remember what kinds of marketing was done, besides Central Notice banners?

Event Timeline

Novem_Linguae renamed this task from Pick a 2026 date for all wikis to vote on wishes, then market it to Pick a 2026 date for all wikis to vote on Wishlist wishes, then market it.May 30 2026, 8:23 PM
Novem_Linguae updated the task description. (Show Details)

I'd rather this be connected to the current system with the changes outlined in T427719. Also, I don't want this to mean we can't write wishes and do votes all year round like we currently do. There is no need for an annual push to obviate that.

Not a Community Wishlist wish, thus removing project tag

Not a Community Wishlist wish, thus removing project tag

@Aklapper, how do you propose we track changes to the wishlist process?

I'd rather this be connected to the current system with the changes outlined in T427719. Also, I don't want this to mean we can't write wishes and do votes all year round like we currently do. There is no need for an annual push to obviate that.

What significant change do we derive from having continuous voting?

Not a Community Wishlist wish, thus removing project tag

@Aklapper, how do you propose we track changes to the wishlist process?

The Community-Wishlist tag description says "wishes only" so I have to agree with Aklapper about not using that one. Community-Tech would have been a good tag a week or two ago.

What significant change do we derive from having continuous voting?

It's not a change, it's the status quo. I'm just saying don't eliminate what we have now to have an annual event. If I, for example, come up with an idea mid-year (between annual events), I want to post it to the wish list, and (potentially) get support.

Aklapper added a project: Community-Tech.

I do not and cannot follow all stuff closely, but the "June 17, 2026" update on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist says that "We’ll return to a widely-advertised annual wishlist vote". Which I assume covers this request.

This was intended to be a task where we plan out those details. None of the acceptance criteria have been met yet (picking a date, marketing it). I would suggest reopening.

Also, the Community Tech team no longer exists, so that may not be the correct tag for this.

where we plan out those details.

Who is "we" (honest question), and are the folks who are in charge of the Wishlist on this ticket? If not, then the Talk Page might be more suited (I do not know where potential changes to the Wishlist are ultimately discussed).

The Community-Wishlist tag description says "wishes only"

That's right, and for more context, Community-Tech was where we placed all other general work tasks related to the tool and processes, rather than user wishes (though sometimes there are wishes about the tool!).

I would have preferred to just rename Community-Tech to something like Wishlist-Tooling or Wishlist-Team instead of archiving it since UX, Comms and I are still supporting the project along with some additional cross-department colleagues and contractors. I can follow up elsewhere after I check with folks on what preferred naming convention they'd like. We wouldn't want to lose all the tagged tasks or have to migrate them to something new.