So you propose to never ever change the look and feel because it might piss
off some old-timers?
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Juergen Fenn <schneeschmelze(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
2014-06-07 2:44 GMT+02:00 Arcane 21
<arcane(a)live.com>om>:
Going to have concur on this. Flow and VE would
be great for attracting
new users, but leaving the foundation of the community in
the dust in favor
of innovation strikes me as a bad idea.
I support the idea of having the ability for the old methods of editing
and talk
pages to work when and where possible and for the transition to
newer ideas to be as gentle as possible on those who might otherwise be
alienated by the changes.
Again, I would like to invite you to think twice. I talked about the
psychological foundation for participating in such a large project as
Wikipedia. It needs tact not to harm an already suffering community
when such sweeping changes should be introduced.
No one has ever asked for our opinion whether we want this or not. It
is decided over our head, par ordre de mufti. Most of us insist on
community processes taking place for introducing new technology on
such a big scale, not in order to deactivate it.
Again, this is all about breaking a community. And we cannot discuss
this in terms of what is good or bad because you cannot revert the
negative impact new technology will have on old editors. This is not
only about technology. It's about psychology. And the latter will
prevail.
Regards,
Jürgen.
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