[Wikimedia-l] Apparently, Wikipedia is ugly

[Michel Vuijlsteke]

On 14 July 2012 16:04, Svip <svippy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I love it when people who have no idea what they are talking about,
> pretend to know what they are talking about, and then even worse, gets
> submitted to Slashdot, because apparently they might know what they
> are talking about.  But they don't know what they are talking about.
>
> Person of ignorance in question:
>
> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/on-the-ugliness-of-wikipedia/259747/


I love it too, when people who have no idea what they're talking about
pretend to know what they are talking about.

For me the most important part of the article is this right here:

>So the real ugliness of the site, Gardner notes, isn't cosmetic. It's that
>Wikipedia has "a built-in bias against design and user-friendliness."

This *is* a real problem, and it's most emphatically something that does
need to be tackled.

Michel Vuijlsteke