Wikimedia Deutschland 's Technical Wishes Project is an approach to identify and prioritize technical requirements from diverse users in a collaborative way. The Technical Wishes team aims to build new and improved features in MediaWiki.

If you want to learn more about our approach, how it all started and the way we work, read our white paper " Building tools for diverse users. Lessons learned from the Technical Wishes project " or this wiki page .

If you are interested in technical details, please visit the project on Phabricator .

Reusing references (2022?2024)

How can reusing references within an article become easier? More information on the page of this focus area .

Project	On some wikis	On all wikis
Extending references Reusing a reference with different details (e.g. page number) in wikitext and VisualEditor	??In development	??In development
Bug fixes	??Done	??Done

More projects will be added to this list.

Geoinformation (2020?2022)

How can the representation of geographical information be improved? Our work has focused on making Kartographer work on wikis using Flagged Revisions, and on several improvements in Kartographer and its documentation. More information on the page of this focus area .

Project	On some wikis	On all wikis
Update maki icons	??Done	??Done
Show nearby articles	??Done	??Done
Adding geopoints via QID	??Done	??Done
Fixing bugs	??Done	??Done
Improve documentation for Kartographer	??Done	??Done
Make Kartographer compatible with page stabilization and pending changes	??Done	??Done
VisualEditor Kartographer improvements	??Done	??Done
Improved accessibility	??Done	??Done

Make working with templates easier (2019?2021)

How can working with templates generally become easier? The following projects were tackled during our work in this area. More information on the page of this focus area .

Project	on some wikis	on all wikis
Bracket Matching	??Done	??Done
Improved Color Scheme of Syntax Highlighting	??Done	??Done
Line Numbering	??Done	??In development deployment to all namespaces is in progress
Suggested values for template parameters	??Done	??Done
Finding and inserting templates	??Done	??Done
Removing a template from a page using the VisualEditor	??Done	??Done
VisualEditor template dialog improvements	??Done	??Done
TemplateData editor improvements	Cancelled	Cancelled

Older projects

The Technical Wishes team has been working in focus areas since the survey 2019. In the 2013, 2015 and 2017 surveys, the dewiki communtity voted on on specific problems. The following resulting projects are or were being implemented by the Technical Wishes team.

Project	on some wikis	on all wikis
Gendered categories Show correctly gendered category names on biographical articles.	Cancelled	Cancelled
ReferencePreviews Finding a solution that prevents users from losing the reading position when checking out a reference.	??Done	??Done on all wikis using the Popups extension
Paragraph-based Edit Conflict Interface The Paragraph-based Edit Conflict Interface aims to improve the current interface to resolve edit conflicts.	??Done	Beta-Feature
FileImporter/FileExporter With the FileImporter, locally stored files can be moved to Wikimedia Commons including the correct version history.	??Done	??Done
RevisionSlider The RevisionSlider adds a slider to the diff view, so that you easily can navigate between the revisions. As of May 17, 2017, RevisionSlider is a default feature on all wikis.	??Done	??Done
Show text changes in moved text paragraphs This project is about making changes within paragraphs visible in the wikitext on the diff page.	??Done	??Done
Advanced Search The Advanced Search extension is making hidden existing search options accessible for everyone.	??Done	??Done
Footnote Highlighting If a footnote is referenced multiple times, highlight the link in the footnote section that brings you back to your original reading position.	??Done	??Done
Rollback A confirmation prompt that prevents users from accidentally clicking the rollback instead of the thank you link.	??Done	??Done
Tables in PDFs Wish #9 of the German-speaking Technical Wishes Survey was adding tables to the PDF export	??Done	??Done
Catwatch Catwatch is a MediaWiki feature that allows users to view category membership changes in the recent changes and watchlists.	??Done	??Done
Notifications about mentions Notification about successful and failed mentions are two new notification types built within the Echo/Notifications-system	??Done	??Done
RevisionSlider The RevisionSlider helps editors to view edit summaries and the version history on diff pages.	??Done	??Done