I am fine with Wikiwand especially with their recent improvements. It is basically a different skin for our content. Not everyone needs to like the same style.
The gear at the top gives a bunch of ways you can customize the styling as well. And it does link to use if people want to edit. As an editor I prefer our greater prominence of the edit, history, and talk page buttons. They are customized for reading. We being a working platform need to balance reading and editing.
There output of our mainpage however is horrible http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Main_Page
James
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:26 AM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
While this is true, there has been some improvement on Wikipedia. Desktop browsers now have the Wikiwand "media gallery" as the Media Viewer, and Wikivoyage (as a test platform) has the interactive maps.
On mobile, things are even better; most of the Wikiwand mobile features are also in the official Wikipedia app, and then some.
That multilingual search, though...
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 8:33 AM Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi, If anything they provide us a service. Anything they can do, we can do integrated. Anything they can do, we can learn from. Anything they prove works better is often a discussion the others have lost their firm
footing.
We are very much stuck in fixed thinking modes. It is why Wikisource is only about its editors and not about its readers. For one Wikisource
there
has been something like Wikiwand and nobody cared. We know we can improve the quality of Wikipedia's links and redlinks in the same way we improved interwiki links, the improvement will be measurable and quick and it is
not
even considered. There is enough we can do better, it is known by many, particularly by the developers and UI people.
We deserve Wikiwand because we could have done better. By making it a company, the people behind Wikiwand put their money where there mouth is. As an argument it is a strong one.
NB we are doing better in places. When you have followed the road towards mobile integration you will agree. However, there is still so much that
can
be done. It starts with reflection of many of our hobby horses and ingrained positions. Thanks, GerardM
On 31 March 2016 at 08:39, Anders Wennersten mail@anderswennersten.se wrote:
What is WMFs position on Wikiwand [1]?
is it a complement or a commercial run interface that is better that
we
can offer?
Anders
[1] http://www.wikiwand.com/about
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