[Wikimedia-l] Apparently, Wikipedia is ugly

Deryck Chan deryckchan at wikimedia.hk
Wed Jul 25 15:45:48 UTC 2012


On 17 July 2012 00:46, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I honestly don't understand why it is taking so many years to develop a
> > WYSIWYG editor, for example, or a new Commons search function. Honestly,
> > people, if you want to create paid jobs, don't inflate the chapter
> > structure, but employ and pay a few programmers and designers.
>
> On 25 July 2012 16:41, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "I don't understand it, so it must be simple." This often turns out
> not to be the case.
>
> I realised both that it was an incredibly difficult problem, and that WMF
is really serious about getting on with it, when they decided to hire James
F. to take charge of the project.

Deryck


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