The Wikimedia Foundation established theCommunity Tech team in 2015 as a product team devoted to building features and making changes that active Wikimedia contributors need the most. Rather than those on the team coming up with their own ideas and proposing them to the community, the team decided to let the community tell us what to work on. To do this, they invited the community to participate in a cross-project survey to set our agenda for the year. This consisted of two weeks for contributors to propose ideas, followed by two weeks of support voting.
325 proposals were submitted to the 2022 survey, with 1578 editors contributing 9554 support votes, producing a rankedlist of 270 ideas. Community Tech committed to investigating and addressing theas many as it gets in light of the results of the prioritization process and external factors [they] can't change
— designing and building new tools themselves, or collaborating with other teams and volunteers who were working in those areas.
Out of thetop 10 winning proposals, Community Tech has completed two of them (copy-pasting from diffs, anddisambiguation link warnings), and is currently working on one, leaving 7 that are incomplete. Some community membersexpressed concerns that the 2022 Survey would yield the same result, with wishes having long delays in implementation. Community Tech responded, pointing to theirprioritization method and policy ofresearch[ing] projects before committing to them.
With the 2021 Survey, the Team picked 4 wishes to implement and publicly declined one. More details are available onMeta.
TheEditing team at theWikimedia Foundation has been hard at work developing tools for thetalk pages project. As of 18 February, the Reply Tool is available to everyone (logged in and out) on desktop at all Wikimedia wikis except for fi.wiki (T297533), and ru.wiki (T297410). The Reply Tool is planned to be turned on at the English Wikipedia for all editors using the desktop interface on 7 March 2022(Phabricator task). Registered editors are welcome toopt-in to the final testing period and provide any feedback, ask questions, or report issues to the Talk Pages project team in the discussion at theproject talk page. Additionally, the team is working on introducing functionality that will alert you, in real-time, when someone posts a new comment in the discussion you are using the Reply Tool within.Instructions for how to try the prototype and share feedback about it can be found here. You can see the full list of whattalk pages project features are available at what wikis by visiting theMediaWiki wiki.
After many feature requests for a dark mode gadget, one has been created in December 2021. It is based on the work ofWikimedia Design team members Volker E. and Alex Hollender, supported by volunteer MusikAnimal and others. To enable the gadget, go to yourgadget preferences, and enable the gadget "Dark mode toggle: Enable a toggle for using a light text on dark background color scheme". The tool has been criticized for its completely black background color with a white foreground causing eye strain for some. More details can be foundhere. Happy darkness!
Bots that have been approved for operations after a successful BRFA will be listed here for informational purposes. No other approval action is required for these bots. Recently approved requests can be foundhere (edit), while old requests can be found in the archives.
| Bot Name | Status | Created | Last editor | Date/Time | Last BAG editor | Date/Time |
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| WOSlinkerBot 21(T|C|B|F) | Open | 2022-02-18, 20:10:24 | WOSlinker | 2022-02-24, 13:24:16 | Never edited by BAG | n/a |
| AssumptionBot(T|C|B|F) | On hold | 2022-02-16, 11:35:09 | AssumeGoodWraith | 2022-02-25, 05:09:33 | Primefac | 2022-02-16, 12:52:58 |
| Gaelan Bot 2(T|C|B|F) | Open | 2022-02-07, 12:07:35 | Thryduulf | 2022-02-23, 10:53:33 | Anomie | 2022-02-07, 12:48:29 |
| DoggoBot 5(T|C|B|F) | Open | 2022-02-03, 18:34:44 | Dicklyon | 2022-02-26, 03:56:10 | Primefac | 2022-02-22, 08:26:21 |
| ZabesBot(T|C|B|F) | On hold | 2022-01-15, 22:43:07 | Primefac | 2022-02-16, 12:39:30 | Primefac | 2022-02-16, 12:39:30 |
| ElliBot(T|C|B|F) | On hold | 2021-01-23, 14:46:12 | Heanor | 2022-02-08, 18:20:15 | ProcrastinatingReader | 2021-11-08, 01:07:48 |
| BareRefBot(T|C|B|F) | Extended trial | 2022-01-20, 21:37:46 | Rlink2 | 2022-02-26, 05:22:06 | Primefac | 2022-02-13, 14:35:48 |
| Dušan Kreheľ (bot)(T|C|B|F) | Trial complete | 2021-12-05, 11:52:27 | Dušan Kreheľ | 2022-02-20, 01:45:03 | ProcrastinatingReader | 2022-01-30, 23:45:52 |
| Qwerfjkl (bot) 7(T|C|B|F) | Trial complete: BAG assistance requested! | 2022-02-11, 10:49:11 | Qwerfjkl | 2022-02-23, 18:32:05 | Primefac | 2022-02-16, 12:31:41 |
| BattyBot 65(T|C|B|F) | Trial complete | 2022-01-31, 20:57:15 | GoingBatty | 2022-02-16, 15:55:04 | Primefac | 2022-02-16, 14:54:36 |
| IndentBot(T|C|B|F) | Trial complete: Inconsistent categories/tags! | 2021-10-15, 03:20:20 | Theleekycauldron | 2022-02-13, 10:10:45 | Primefac | 2022-01-23, 15:11:18 |
Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community:2022 #9,#8, . Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations areavailable on Meta.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting takes place every Wednesday from4:00–5:00 p.m. UTC. See how to joinhere.
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