Wikipedia:WikiProject Policy and Guidelines/proposals

develop better policy proposals, and help Wikipedia with the maintenance and management of policy. , come on over to the discussion page, or follow along with some of the discussion being tracked at other parts of Wikipedia.

Background. Policy maintenance, management, and reform on Wikipedia is neither coordinated nor long-term - neither tactical nor strategic. There is no mechanism to ensure that policy is not changed without consensus, and that minor 'tweaking' is minor. There is no mechanism for tracking policy change, and managing overlapping and potentially contradictory policy. There is no mechanism for policy reform - reform is ad hoc, piecemeal, and proposals are too often given a hostile and superficial treatment. Discussion of policy often occurs across many pages including the Village Pump (which is good for vetting, but poor for development), and WP:CENT (which merely advertises key discussions). The goal of this project is to develop better proposals. This applies particularly to proposals which don't fit easily into a single policy/guideline talkpage. The scope is all policy and guideline pages.

Pump Proposals

 * Cancel button in editor -- needs support to proceed. 7 support. Minor benefit, but easy to implement.
 * A recent changes page for unwatched articles -- needs support to proceed. 7 support, major benefit, blocks PEREN-watched counter. Requires schema change.
 * Make the Watchlist more like an Inbox -- vague but much support. Needs development. (Discussion archived)
 * Suggestion to include eyeplorer -- shows need to make consistent criteria for the search engines
 * Redirects to redirects redirect -- bugzilla 17888
 * Articles on no watchlists -- PEREN-watched counter, dupe of recent-unwatched. resolved? merge?
 * Disabling create a book -- has support, bugzilla 18756. recent opposition from wikimedia reps
 * Edit summary list -- needs comments. may help increase use of edit summaries.
 * Create an article -- needs comments.
 * Reverts ignored by watchlist -- blocked by watchlist-like-inbox

Policy revisions

 * WT:Linking
 * WT:Naming conventions (categories)

Bugzilla
Top 25 from bugzilla:
 * Support text sorting for non-English locales | medium benefit
 * Interproject links
 * Install the StringFunctions extension
 * File links on images should list links from other wikis
 * Interwikies sort in phonetic, site defined order
 * Interface for adding interwiki/category links
 * Block a user from editing a specific article
 * Gallery of images uploaded by a user
 * Add a music wikimodule
 * Add section edit link for 0th/lead section| in widgets
 * Basic XML Feed support for watchlist
 * Block users from file upload only
 * Cross-wiki talk page notification
 * Template inclusion from Commons
 * Autoformatting for unlinked dates
 * Image renaming on WMF wikis

See also 1300 interface feature requests.