Thanks Vito and Samuel for your words,
As a leader of an Education Program, I talk every day to students, people who 
was born after Wikipedia and have assumed during all their life that Wikipedia 
exists. They are digital natives, but, for the good or for the bad, they are 
used to having everything deployed, working and simple. They are used to Google 
Drive and its collaboration platforms; they are used to just buying some new 
device and having the operative system there. They haven't dealt with 
installing their own OS, making separate drives for data and OS or just having 
folders in their desktop to save things.

I have been with more than 6.000 students in the last 4 years 
(https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/hezkuntza_programa/programs 
4.147 accounts created) and they are shocked with the obsolescence of our 
platform. They don't understand why they can't write simultaneously, why they 
can't upload videos, or why there's not autosave. I'm with them every day, so I 
hear what they think about the design, the usability. They make the same 
mistakes once and again, so I'm starting to think that those are not mistakes, 
but software/UX errors.

Our system was obsolete 10 years ago. Whenever we fix something, we are a 
decade late. The new vector will be, too, a decade late. And every change we 
aren't doing is losing new contributors. Old wikimedians will eventually leave 
the project, because they can't contribute, because they have lost their 
enthusiasm or just because they die. If we want to have a whole new generation 
of wikimedians editing, then things must be thought for them, making everything 
easier, appealing and aligned with the way they have to contribute. Desktop 
computers are disappearing. We still can't edit in a good way with our mobile 
phones. We have a whole strategy thought for the 2030, but we aren't making any 
real usability step in that direction.

We have still some time left. And we have the most important thing: a mountain 
of money. Let's invest in the best way we can: attracting a new generation of 
Wikimedians who will push our projects to new heights and will make that little 
investment of money multiply for the future.

Galder

PD: Samuel, yes, of course, I use tropes, stylistic recourses and metaphors. 
I'm trying to tell something! šŸ˜‰

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Regular contributors experience is quite different from less frequent 
contributors and (above all) readers. People into user interfaces design surely 
have a proper word for this, but we're used to a variety of small tricks/habits 
which are somehow expensive to change.

For example, since OOUI's developed I've been upset because it seems to need 
some more keystrokes for blocks and deletions. I, for one, am still using 
monobook, and I won't change it unless forced.

Introducing visual editor implied a cost for the communities to fix garbage 
wikicode introduced by VE during its first weeks/months, some years later, 
linterrors became the best game for our bots.

So I can confirm the inertia of regular editors about user interface is, 
usually, humongous, but also the project themselves have an enormous inertia 
since they are collections of terabytes of wikicode created during almost two 
decades.

I feel like this problem has never been addressed in a wide, strategic, way, 
leaving developers being torn apart by conflicting needs.

Vito

Il giorno ven 15 ott 2021 alle ore 19:11 Eduardo Testart 
<etest...@gmail.com<mailto:etest...@gmail.com>> ha scritto:
Hi all,

A good example around this subject was the Visual Editor tool implementation, 
strongly opposed by the community in the beginning, and developed by the WMF, 
as it was probably necessary to turn Wikipedia into a more modern website.

A lot about the latter can be found and read as a real example of this debate

The cultural behavior of the group is a big factor on any technological 
implementation on the Wikimedia world, and to change culture, you need much 
more than money.

Sorry if this was mentioned before.


Cheers,


El vie., 15 de oct. de 2021 07:13, Galder Gonzalez LarraƱaga 
<galder...@hotmail.com<mailto:galder...@hotmail.com>> escribiĆ³:
No, I don't have all the answers. Is just that every time someone says: "hey! 
this is broken!" and receives an excuse and then says again "HEY! THIS IS 
BROKEN!" the answer is not: "ok, we'll try to figure out how to solve it" but: 
"don't use caps". I'm a volunteer. I have spent lots of time trying to solve 
issues. Most of this time wasn't about the issue, was about someone trying to 
convince me that the bug was a feature. And now, when I tell here where "I 
THINK" that the problem is, I get a "you are being rude" excuse. Great. I'm 
being rude. Now, can we fix the problem?

Thanks

Galder
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 at 11:03, Galder Gonzalez LarraƱaga 
<galder...@hotmail.com<mailto:galder...@hotmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks Dan for using the Excuse 6: At this point in the circle, there is some 
volunteer who wants to fix this and raises the tone of the request. Then we 
find the mother of all excuses, the wild card: you are being rude and do not 
assume good faith. Excuse 6.

I guess you've got all the answers then, eh?

I think we're done here.

Dan
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