User:Tonisant/MediaWiki GUI

Is MediaWiki really "so hard to use"?

My simple answer is: no!  :-)

Points to consider:

• MediaWiki gets a new WYSIWYG editor by summer 2012. [1] [2]

• BBC REPORT: Jimmy Wales says Wikipedia too complicated for many. [3]

• The panel ‘Wikipedia and the Place of Resistance’ at WikiWars DAY 2 in Bangalore introduced some fascinating arguments about why people either leave Wikipedia (a perspective from US Internet Analyst, William Buetler) or why they’re not interested in Wikipedia (Yi-Ping Tsou about why Taiwan does not like Wikipedia). [4]

• I've started creating a simplified help page for my students working on Wikipedia. [5]

• From April 2012: Wikidata to provide structured data for all Wikipedia versions [6]

Exploring alternative landing pages

• current - main - simplified - jQuery

See also

• Wikimedia Report for Editor Survey - April 2011

• Best practices in public outreach from Wikimedia Foundation

• Wikidata to provide structured data for all Wikipedia versions - by Daniel Terdiman, CNET, 30 March 2012