Change Wikimedia wishlist homepages to de-emphasize focus areas in favor of ranked individual wishes and wish categories
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	Sat, May 30, 7:59 PM

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Volunteers prefer it this way in order to boost engagement, which has been 92% lower since moving away from a format that emphasizes ranked wishes.
WMF has agreed to make this change.

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Change Wikimedia wishlist homepages to de-emphasize focus areas in favor of ranked individual wishes and wish categories
- [TODO: add technical details here]

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Technical details to be determined. Does this just need some configuration changes? Or will it require patches that add or change features? Exactly what pages need to be modified?

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist is just a wiki page with the tables created by parser functions. Nothing technical would stop you from editing it yourself to de-emphasize focus areas.

I've been a bit BOLD and

In T427719#11969830, @Pppery wrote:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist is just a wiki page with the tables created by parser functions. Nothing technical would stop you from editing it yourself to de-emphasize focus areas.

per that I've been BOLD and removed the focus areas visually from the nav and the page itself in: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Community_Wishlist&diff=prev&oldid=30611130

Soda added a subscriber: mikez-WMF.Sun, May 31, 1:11 AM

Change Wikimedia wishlist homepages to de-emphasize focus areas in favor of ranked individual wishes and wish categoriesOpen, Needs TriagePublicActions

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Change Wikimedia wishlist homepages to de-emphasize focus areas in favor of ranked individual wishes and wish categories
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