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Once again so many people are led to think Wikipedia is broke and must be saved

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276 points akolbe | 2 comments | 14 Sep 22 17:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.526s | source
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akolbe ◴[14 Sep 22 17:10 UTC] No.32840114[source]▶
Single-page:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1570072717931552770.html

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avg_dev ◴[14 Sep 22 18:28 UTC] No.32841225[source]▶
Once again, I’m grateful for your message. (I did end up getting my refund. I hope you remember me.)

On a completely unrelated note, I was looking at a somewhat complicated Wikipedia page yesterday and noticed a piece of text I would like to edit. It had some stuff (citations and references) I felt I didn’t understand how to edit without being sure I wouldn’t break anything. Is there a good forum or place where I could ask for help with my edit?

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chordalkeyboard ◴[14 Sep 22 18:36 UTC] No.32841346[source]▶
not that I am aware of; and Wikipedia has spent tens of millions of dollars over the past decade on a more user-friendly UI with nothing to show for it to date. Which is a good reason to question how well they allocate their hundred million dollar annual revenue.
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1. Hayarotle ◴[14 Sep 22 19:08 UTC] No.32841816[source]▶
They're testing out the new UI in the other language Wikipedias. It adds a nice collapsible topic structure to the sidebar and sets a text width limit, but hides the available languages for the article behind a button on the header. This makes it harder to tell whether the article is available in specific languages, and to switch the language. It's a bit unwieldy as of now, as you now have to jump to the top of the page and click the "languages" button just to check if the article is available in your desired language, but they are showing some effort. They plan to make the header sticky and add direct links to the user's most frequently used languages. I just hope a sticky header doesn't take away much of the space dedicated to the page's content.

Here's a link to the ideas page discussing the change:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(propos...

And a link to a page describing the changes:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme...

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2. akolbe ◴[14 Sep 22 20:47 UTC] No.32843124[source]▶
That Village Pump page, incidentally, is also where the poll about the fundraising emails is, a few sections further down.