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> However, it's not clear exactly what a solution would be. The issue or course is that they don't publicly acknowledge the issue. They'll produce hundreds of
by bane 12y ago
> However, it's not clear exactly what a solution would be.
The issue or course is that they don't publicly acknowledge the issue. They'll produce hundreds of pages of reports on the issue and end it with a "what could the problem be?" with shoulders shrugged.
Acknowledging the problem is the first step towards finding the solution.
Here's me almost 1500 days ago (4 YEARS!) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598491
Here's the recent thing that was going on
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215168 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215168
Here's an article on it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3272466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3272466
And another
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612638
This discussion goes back to 2011 at least, and WP just can't seem to admit that there's a problem.
- shalmanese 12y agoAll I can say is that I offered to do some informal product consulting with the WMF a few years ago and I walked into the building thinking I knew what the issues were and what obvious steps were required to fix them and I walked out being as equally confused and frustrated as the people there.