User blog:Hollowness/UCP Wishlist

Work in progress for my reference.

Articles
 * Add favorites/bookmarks to similar to following but visible to other users (star or heart Icon)
 * Re-add Following for non article pages but not visible to other users (templates, etc.)
 * Add ranking option to articles (5 star rating preferred).

Blogs Although Wikia/Fandom wasn't meant to be a blog site if Blogs were improved enough to compete with blog sites under a wiki of the topic it could encourage new editors and community member growth.
 * Better url/page Names (User blog:UserName/Title Here) looks sloppy in categories (even if it was UserName Blog:Title Here) would be and improvement.
 * Displayed better in categories (Title Here by UserName), separate from articles.
 * Blog pages with a profile summary displayed so you know/find out some details on the User (like in a right or left column).
 * Other blogs from user displayed in left/right side bar or bottom of the page (categorized by date or category tag).
 * Admin announcement/news blogs. Different from User blogs no profile summary would be needed. Option to announce (in Notifications) to users on news and updates on the Wiki.

Customization This already has been promised but to elaborate.
 * More themes, skins, etc. to desktop view.
 * Mobile view customizations.
 * Option to force desktop view on wiki or select pages in mobile view (let's face it some pages will never be the blanketed mobile view friendly- so lets not let that be a blank/broken page).

Discussions A horrible attempt to be like reddit. First as long as discussions are random numbers we will be more likely to be bypassed and omitted by web crawlers and never compete with reddit type threads. It lacks search, organization is laughable and I cannot simply navigate easily like I once did in a forum environment.
 * Bright back thread titles in url addresses (remove #url addresses).
 * Bring back some sort of forum top navigation, recent posts and popular posts feeds.
 * Bring back Search!? how does one search anymore...

Messaging
 * Notifications to include Zendesk responses (for some reason I only can manually check Zendesk or my email to see if I get a response but why? I am on Wiki more than my email).
 * Staff and or Admin PM system, PMs for admins and/or staff can be very helpful to some communities. PM's through third party platforms is annoying IMO.

Notifications
 * Notifications should have it's own page with the top right corner as a quick preview of notifications.

Organization I feel this can't be stressed enough UCP just seems less organized and not User friendly.

Profiles Profiles have been dumbed down when it should have been expanded IMO. No, it is not important to know one's gender nor location but sometimes people don't like to be called the opposite gender they are. Make optional of course: And for fun to make profiles more personable and show us what we are FANS of:
 * Keep gender, location, date of birth, favourite wikis, etc.
 * Add languages spoken, including primary language (some people are cruelly rude to people who have English as a second language maybe this will show some much needed patience and tolerance).
 * Save 2-4 avatars you commonly use and change to, instead of reuploading each time especially when you get error messages.
 * A mood field, one of my favourite little things I use in a blog site over 15 years ago.
 * Favourite colour or colours.
 * Favourite book.
 * Favourite movie.
 * I am listening to... music field.
 * I am watching... tv series field. (linking to that tv series Wiki option)
 * I am playing... game field. (linking to that games Wiki option)

Show Who's Online
 * Show who's online with an option to show one's self offline of course.

Top Navigation This really needs to be expanded and improved. Some Wiki topics are a Parent Topic or Theme with possible ever-expansions. If you think of a Gaming Wiki and suddenly another instalment makes it a gaming series or expands further with App versions of the game or gaming series. Easily, these could be stand alone Wikis with the minimal Navigation we currently have but we want a Parent Wiki but current Navigation does not properly reflect this.
 * Add more rows, columns or an expand option when navigating Navigation.
 * Add Discussions categories to the drop down Navigation.

Uploads
 * Bring back Special:MultipleUpload, I pretty much use it 99% of the time and it is almost never for just 1 article and with my one wiki that is 20,000+ images, imagine who upset you'd have to be to upload 1-5 images per article- when you use to do 20x Special:MultipleUpload for 5-100 articles at a time.

Watch or Silence Users Some sort of friending or more watching Users who you want to keep an eye on or avoid by silencing (auto hiding their responses from you but you can see if you want to).
 * A feed to watch activity of Users you want to see.
 * A way to avoid toxic users by auto hiding their responses and keeping them on an admin or staff list to see toxic users in a community.
 * Admins able to have an admin watchlist for troublesome users or IP addresses that can be cross-referenced with other Wikis. To find troublesome users who migrate Wikis.