[Commons-l] Pikiwiki project problems

[David Gerard]

2009/6/8 Dror Kamir <dqamir at bezeqint.net>:

> The Hebrew interface of the Commons is not easy to handle, and English
> is a foreign language to most Israelis. The number of license tags is
> huge, most of them are irrelevant to the Israeli user. Communication
> with the Commons' administrators is often impossible due to the language
> barrier, and the need to place a description template, which is actually
> a code, is quite frightening to most technophobic people, and there are
> plenty of them.


Yes, the interface is horrible even in English.

(And the resulting File: page. Have you ever tried to explain over the
phone to someone where the licensing information is on a web page?
Fun!)

Has anything the WMF usability initiative has done seem helpful to
you? That concentrated on English, but horrible interfaces cross
language boundaries ...


- d.