User talk:Okeyes (WMF)

The Redlink was Bothering Me Yuvipanda (talk) 04:51, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Understandable :P. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:49, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Testing
Hello Okeyes! You created Golden-Crowned Sparrow article for testing as you noted on an edit summary. Can we delete that article now? Cheers, –BruTe 08:04, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Totally; it was for some user tests. Feel free to remove it :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 08:56, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Done it. Thanks for a quick reply. –BruTe 20:37, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

in five years
Thank you for writing up VisualEditor/Portal/Why / Wikipedia: Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Why.

I think it's great that you're thinking 5 years out, rather than (as I too often do) looking only at short-sighted short-term goals.

One sentence brings up more questions in my mind than it answers:
 * "if we don't, that graph is going to look a lot worse in five years."

How could you possibly know that? Do you have some knowledge of future events that is going to require us to completely re-think Wikipedia: WP:CRYSTALBALL ?

--DavidCary (talk) 18:50, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Not really; it's the way the trend is going, however. So, ultimately the problem with wikimarkup is not actually a problem with wikimarkup. The complexity of wikimarkup has remained constant (although the complexity of wikipedia articles has definitely risen). The problem is that user expectations from sites have changed - Facebook and other drainers on peoples' time have provided a far more friendly interface than has historically been present on the internet, one that shifts the complexity to the software rather than the end-user. The result is that wikimarkup is completely opposite to what users expect. This is something that's continuing to happen to a greater and greater degree, and I can't see any reason why the trend would reverse. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 20:26, 3 July 2013 (UTC)