Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Michael Snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] >> improve the MediaWiki software and the experience for new contributors. >> Not that this is a direct result of recent discussions here, plenty of >> people have mentioned the issue before, including Delphine as Ting > [snip] > > Sadly most of the discussions on these lists run on without mention of > the efforts that have come before, in this case see: > http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard > > When people discuss enhancements it seems that it is taboo to discuss > the question of what happens when the communities reject these > efforts. > > Too often we blame technical issues as limiting factors for usability > when with a little creativity a 90% solution is available without > waiting for inflexible technical solutions which never seem to come. > Unfortunately, interest, project politics, and other social factors > are ready to stand in the way of progress even when there are no > technical roadblocks at all.
Note also that the Slovenian Wikipedia has an adaptation of this[1] that they link to from the message shown when creating a new article[2] (the second line of the message). [1] <http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:Napi%C5%A1i_%C4%8Dlanek> [2] <http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Newarticletext> -- Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
