Hoi Romaine,

I am sorry but while I understand your frustration, you are not realistic and you do no justice to the situation. To start with Wikidata is not user friendly at all. It never was because development has been concentrating on basic architecture and basic functionality. At that we are still waiting for much needed basic functionality for instance statements that indicate what unit they are (kilo, meter, calories etc) and queries.

When you read the replies of Lydia, it is quite plain that what we have is an intermediate step towards a different user interface. What we have now will pass. When you consider the old UI, it may have worked for you but I find it is lacking basic functionality for editors. My pet pieve is that when I add a URL for an item, it is not able to strip all the web junk away to be left with the Qnumber. Now I have to do it by hand and, I do that a lot. Some work on similar issues were done in the "paper cuts".

What I am looking for in the new UI is similarity with what Reasonator looks like. My motivation is that in this way it will be possible to have an overview of all the data. The data becomes informative in this way. That may not help editors much. Much of the data is entered by bots and external tools, they are likely to be affected in different ways by the continuing stream of changes as well.

I am sure you have seen all the huha around Flow and the visual editor. I loathed the way people bullied their opinion on everybody else. PLEASE let us not go that way with Wikidata.

Thanks,

GerardM

On 10 October 2014 04:20, Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry Lydia, but I can't read that in your reply. I point on an overlooked issue with designing the current version. I see no recognition that this is an issue that is taken serious and needs to be solved. You mention that there are issues that will be solved, but the issue raised here is not taken into account (it seems).

You say that you will move forward. I reply on that the current design is a downfall compared with how it was. I conclude based on what I notice in the editing workflow that the change is not an improvement.

In your reply you do not give the impression that the issue raised here is going to be solved, nor that you want to restore the previous workable version, so in that perspective you keep the current design which is troubling. It is a step back. If someone would ask me to put the versions in chronological order of development based on how it works for users, than the current version would come before the previous version. If the current design would have been followed by the previous design, I would have congratulated the Wikidata team with this major improvement, which makes editing Wikidata for users much easier.

Are there any plans yet in what the workflow of users is restored to a workable situation?

Romaine

2014-10-09 18:08 GMT+02:00 Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de>:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Lydia,
>
> I can understand that it is not restored back in the previous situation, but
> this is not an improvement. Editing Wikidata is made harder, more difficult,
> and more clumpsy. This change of a new design is counter-productive. For
> months we are asking people to add stuff to Wikidata if they created an
> article, we stop with that. We really can't explain this change. It is also
> counter-productive if a wrong decision is made and the effects for end users
> are ignored, while they have (or had) to deal with it every time. This
> version is not an improvement but a step back in time. I am sure you and
> your team have been working hard on this, but apparently in the process it
> has been missed how a lot of users work with Wikidata.
>
> That you notice some issues is fine, but that is no answer at all to the
> current complaints. Seeing the reactions from other users elsewhere I am not
> alone in this.
>
> But one question is answered, you are not willing to restore a better
> version of the software to restore the downfall but want to keep this
> annoying not handy working version.

No that's not what I said. I said we are going to move forward and
make this better so the issues you are having now will no longer be
there. By no means do I want to insist on keeping the current status -
quite the opposite.

Cheers
Lydia

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