Wikipedia:User Advocacy

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:.

Information sources

 * 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:


 * How to report a bug

Other Wikimedia sources that can provide information, include:


 * The Strategic Planning wiki
 * The Tech page on Meta

Feedback
Feedback is being actively sought on the features below.

Features in production

 * VisualEditor
 * VisualEditor/Default State RFC - an RfC on whether to change the default state (e.g. opt-in or opt-out) of the Visual Editor
 * Article Feedback Tool
 * Notifications

Features in discussion

 * Flow

Feature requests
Below are feature requests that are open for discussion.


 * Branching support
 * Category intersection
 * Deferred revisions
 * Pending changes
 * Sticky notes