On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Denny Vrandečić <denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > <rant> > > If WMF had a Steve Jobs on staff, everyone would hate him for making > decisions without properly consulting the community, for destroying > the community, for reinventing Wikimedia again, for making unpopular > decisions, for making decisions behind close doors, for being an > egomaniac, etc. > > Heck, we cannot even get the branding right. We call our project > Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikinews... we have a > software called MediaWiki, and the whole movement is called the > Wikimedia Movement. No surprise people think Wikileaks is one of ours. > No surprise people cannot get these words right. There have been > several suggestions for improving the branding, but every time met > with strong resistance. > > I think Athena is a much more though-out design step for Wikipedia, > and I am very much looking forward to it to happen. But as long as > there is considerable backlash for something like a move from Monobook > to Vector -- which, it seems, is not even regarded as a design update > by most critics here -- I am wary about the social costs involved in > such an update. > > </rant> > > Yes, it would be nice if it was easier to change Wikipedia.
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