On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Brill Lyle <wp.brilll...@gmail.com> wrote: > The paper focuses, yet again on Visual Editor. And while I understand that > many editors prefer this, any implementation must service both the Visual > Editor users as well as the Wiki Markup users. > > Again, major concerns. I guess unless I have more off-Wiki conversations > about this topic, I will move my concerns to the proposal page. > > I believe in Wikidata and want to encourage usage -- and am trying to use it > more -- but unless you are running queries it's quite frankly a flipping > nightmare. I love the idea. Usability, not so much. And I know it is > improved and there are many smart people I admire involved in this project. > But the lack of buy-in by Wikipedia editors is happening for a reason.
You are absolutely right that this is a big problem. However I believe that this grant proposal will get us closer to a solution than farther away. 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 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
