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Wikipedia is a tool not an app. Tools are designed to be useful not beautiful. Wikipedia extremely useful as is. Any significant change must be a large leap in
by shittyanalogy 12y ago
Wikipedia is a tool not an app. Tools are designed to be useful not beautiful. Wikipedia extremely useful as is. Any significant change must be a large leap in usefulness to overcome the burden of having to re-teach hundreds of millions of people how to use the tool. Having a specific platform with a unique interface is counter productive at best.
Wikipedia is not stuck in 2004, it's not stuck anywhere. It continues to grow, flourish and be useful to hundreds of millions of people over all sorts of connections and on all sorts of devices.
Thinking how much better wikipedia would be if it were beautiful is like thinking how much better your hammer would be if it were beautiful.
- ysleepy 12y agothats a shitty analogy. Also wikipedia has more technical dept than the worst govmnt project. Just look at the php backend shit. The parser alone makes people blind. There does not exist a grammar. You cannot process the content properly, because only their current php thing parses tge wkitext as the author intended, and it consists of 65% quirks and hacks. The layout/ html rendering is 10y in the past. I can think of a dozen helpful things the html pages could do, but its not possible because of the rottten backend that literally takes minutes to render some articles. And that with millions of donations. Wikimedia sucks so hard its almost like they purposefully want to wikipedia from evolving.
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