About

This is the Phabricator project for the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team. We conduct the annual Community Wishlist Survey, aimed at serving the software needs of the community. You can see what we're currently working on by reviewing the sprint columns on the right side of our Phabricator board.

This tag can be used to grab the attention of the Community Tech, but it is not a catch-all tag for tasks that are outside the purview of other WMF teams. Tasks related to wishes in the Survey will be tagged with Community-Tech by the team once we are sure we can commit to them. Read more about our Phabricator criteria.

Active work: development of a tool
View our current projects in meta.
When we develop a new tool, we welcome ideas for its functionality. We usually gather this feedback in the respective project talk page. We create a project label for each of these tools. You can watch them as we decide what is the priority. This usually includes the core functionality to make the tool valuable and usable. We also include more ambitious goals for the tool. We work on them if time and resources allow us to fulfil them.

Passive work: maintenance of a tool
When we maintain a tool, we assess bug reports associated with the tool. Since we maintain so many tools and create new ones, our assessment is as follows:

High-priority bugs: Bugs that make the tool go down or impede any of its basic functionality. We strive to fix these types of bugs as soon as we reasonably can. We assess once every two weeks, but monitor incoming bugs daily, especially these kinds.
Low-priority bugs: Annoyances in usability of the tool that do not impede its functionality. We often do not work on these types of bugs, but still routinely assess them every two weeks and work on them when we have time for them.

Maintained projects
A complete table can be viewed on Meta.