Wikipedia:User Advocacy
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To-do list for User Advocacy:
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- Brainstorming: We need to plan and build awareness of the User Advocacy effort.
- Roadmap: User-accessible information the software roadmap is being drawn up.
- Features: A list of individual software features for for feedback is being prepared.
- VisualEditor: Research question and methodology proposals are being prepared.
- Volunteers: An audit of people, skills and resources available to the User Advocacy effor is being compiled.

The purpose the User Advocacy effort is:
- to advocate for greater understanding and consideration of Wikipedia user needs;
- to foster greater community awareness of the developers' tasks and challenges;
- to provide an information hub for user research, advocacy and communication;
- to organise community-led research into Wikipedia users and user practices.
The User Advocacy effort is in the motions of being established. Your help will be invaluable. Please see the to-do list for ways you can contribute.
If you support the effort, a userbox has been created here: {{Wikipedia:User Advocacy/Userbox}}
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Information sources
[edit]- An overview of the English Wikipedia software roadmap from the Wikimedia Foundation
- And information page on how Wikipedia software is developed
- A library of research on Wikipedia usage and users
If you want to log a bug report about a feature of Wikipedia, information on how to do so is here:
Other Wikimedia sources that can provide information, include:
- The Strategic Planning wiki
- The Tech page on Meta
Feedback
[edit]Feedback is being actively sought on the features below.
Features in production
[edit]- Wikipedia:VisualEditor
- Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Default State RFC - an RfC on whether to change the default state (e.g. opt-in or opt-out) of the Visual Editor
- Wikipedia:Article Feedback Tool
- Wikipedia:Notifications
Features in beta
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Features in discussion
[edit]Feature requests
[edit]Below are feature requests that are open for discussion.
- Wikipedia:Branching support
- Wikipedia:Category intersection
- Wikipedia:Deferred revisions
- Wikipedia:Pending changes
- Wikipedia:Sticky notes
See also
[edit]- An earlier, inactive Wikipedia:Community Facilitation