On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Romaine Wiki <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Lydia, > > I can understand that it is not restored back in the previous situation, but > this is not an improvement. Editing Wikidata is made harder, more difficult, > and more clumpsy. This change of a new design is counter-productive. For > months we are asking people to add stuff to Wikidata if they created an > article, we stop with that. We really can't explain this change. It is also > counter-productive if a wrong decision is made and the effects for end users > are ignored, while they have (or had) to deal with it every time. This > version is not an improvement but a step back in time. I am sure you and > your team have been working hard on this, but apparently in the process it > has been missed how a lot of users work with Wikidata. > > That you notice some issues is fine, but that is no answer at all to the > current complaints. Seeing the reactions from other users elsewhere I am not > alone in this. > > But one question is answered, you are not willing to restore a better > version of the software to restore the downfall but want to keep this > annoying not handy working version.
No that's not what I said. I said we are going to move forward and make this better so the issues you are having now will no longer be there. By no means do I want to insist on keeping the current status - quite the opposite. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
