Fremantle
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The new system for the Community Wishlist was launched yesterday. It replaces the old annual system of having a set period each year when people can propose wishes, with some weeks following of voting etc. In the new system, wishes get submitted whenever, and are gathered together into focus areas and those are what will be voted on (again at any time).
I think it's an improvement. The software for running it certainly is! We've built a data entry form, which reads and writes a wikitext table. There are also other parts that read all the wish templates into a (Toolforge) database and then write out various tables (all wishes, recent ones, etc.) into wiki pages.
There's more info about the launch in a Diff post: Share your product needs with the Community Wishlist