It is a great blog post. I like that it explains why it is hard with some technical detail but in a way that curious non-experts could understand. I like that it contains a honest admission of current problems, while not making it sound like the people who wrote those parts made mistakes.

On Hacker News specifically, the oft repeated wisdom (that I've never seen a real citation for) is that if you drive people to HN with a direct link their upvotes are not counted. People who take their HN exposure seriously link to the new category and give the title to look for. Eg http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5104979

Luke

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.orgwrote:

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:

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Post: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/04/parsoid-how-wikipedia-catches-up-with-t... Job link: http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=oIsbXfw2&c=qSa9VfwQ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/434512763291693 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/308652311742386176

Thanks to Gabriel & Subbu for making the post, and Tillman for making it readable!

This is a pretty nice post, so spammed ;) to Hacker News for those interested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5320414

-- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/