On 9/5/07, James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com wrote:
I would very much hope that the Foundation can find something better to spend the best part of a million dollars on.
It's not an unimportant issue. Wikipedia design is starting to date and go stale. Design and usability is paramount for any website, especially a website of our size
This is an issue that would optimally be settled like all of our other issues, by consensus and volunteer work, but I fear that will not happen. First off all, the open source method is notoriously bad at producing good GUIs, and second the inertia of the community is staggering in this case. I mean, look how hard it was to redesign the main page!
Maybe hiring a graphic designer to do some work and mockups and things isn't such a terrible idea. I realise that we're strapped for cash, but unless we want to look exactly the same in another five years (which would make us positively prehistoric), I don't think there is all that many other options.
--Oskar