User:Donald Trung/Community Tech Wishlist for the Wikimedia Commons

This is a draft page for a proposal to create a local Commonswiki Community Tech Wishlist where contributors can suggest new technical features to be made by the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) to support the Wikimedia Commons community. This page is preserved for the public record and attribution purposes.

Create a Commonswiki Community Tech Wishlist

Introduction.

I would like to propose the creation of a localised version of the Community Wishlist Survey. This survey will function largely the same as the ones that currently exist at the Meta-Wiki and German-language Wikipedia.

I also prefer not to go into too much detail, namely if it should be annual or bi-annual, if the accepted proposals should number only a few or many. Whatever the outcome of that will likely be based on the available resources.

Benefits.

As the Wikimedia Commons is vastly different from other Wikimedia websites the technical needs of this website are also vastly different, something that positively affects the Wiktionary can also be used to help Wikipedia and Wikisource, but as this website primarily deals with multimedia its needs require more specialised proposals to deal with them.

Because of the much larger communities at various language Wikipedia's proposals dealing exclusively with issues faced by contributors and re-users of the Wikimedia Commons will likely not get upvoted much in a global survey, meanwhile these would receive proper discussion in a localised wishlist.

What this proposal isn't.

This proposal only exists to establish local consensus to have such a survey, it does not guarantee its establishment nor implementation. If approved we could use this proposal to show that local consensus exists.