[Foundation-l] 80% of our projects are failing

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The Dutch Wikipedia has passed 500.000 articles.. if a seven year old Dutch
kid would be looking for a "paard", the child would not get what we have in
store when it asks for a "horse" in stead..
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=paard&go=Try+exact+match
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Horse

I know of smaller WMF projects where even the admins have given up on
Commons.. So yes, Commons is a great project but it has only 3,5 million
media files and it does not support other languages like it could and in my
opinion should.
Thanks,
      GerardM


2008/12/1 geni <geniice at gmail.com>

> 2008/12/1 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
> > Hoi,
> > There is no point in usability studies when the lessons learned are not
> > applied. At the Boston Wikimania there was another person who had done
> > studies on usability and MediaWiki. She even presented about it at the
> > "Hacker days"...
>
> The problem is the info tends to be around it an easy to access and search
> form.
>
> > As to Commons, it is effectively useless to the people that do not speak
> > English.
>
> Really? Even with the extensive uselang stuff in say german?
>
>
> --
> geni
>
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