On 18 April 2013 15:54, Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> wrote:
Le 2013-04-18 14:52, Thomas Morton a écrit :
> Or, you could click a button.
> Why is making something easy a problem?
Because easiness is not our **only** concern.
It is, however, an extremely important one. It only takes a *tiny*
inconvenience to lose a *lot* of people.
(Someone noted on wikien-l that the "Oh Shit" moment in the editor
graph coincides pretty well with the decision to lock down article
creation on en:wp. Tiny inconveniences.)
Making things easier is great,
losing neutrality for the sake of convenience and ease-of-use, to my mind it
is not a good trade.
I don't see a way around the neutrality one either, but that's my only
objection.
I just fail to perceive a
copy/paste action as a huge barrier to knowledge diffusion.
And yet, it seems to be. People keep asking for the buttons.
To my mind
Wikipedia Zero for example seems to adress a real concern of knowledge
diffusion.
Wikipedia Zero is not particularly related to the present discussion.
However, consider the mobile interface. Copy-and-pasting a URL is
considerably more difficult there. How would you work around that?
- d.