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Re:Ask HN: How can we fix Wikipedia? by threatofrain on Saturday March 05, 2022 @10:37AM (#30568404)
> It certainly isn't the case that engineering is "done" either, as the open bug count is growing constantly and huge swathes of the software aren't maintained and don't even have maintainers[2].

Wikipedia is moving to Vue.

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Re:Ask HN: How can we fix Wikipedia? by adhesive_wombat on Saturday March 05, 2022 @10:50AM (#30568502)
They haven't even finished moving to OOUI.

Actually, if they'd just bothered to document OOUI properly in the first place, would they need to move?

As it is, they'll now have three concurrent systems (jQuery, OOUI and Vue). It's like GTK 2,3,4 all over again.

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Re:Ask HN: How can we fix Wikipedia? by zozbot234 on Saturday March 05, 2022 @10:59AM (#30568579)
They're not "moving" to Vue. They plan to build some optional JS-based components on Vue, since the alternative of purely handcrafted code is unappealing. And even then, that code can probably be refactored to use the vastly superior Svelte once the dev team's weird hostility to workflows based on ahead-of-time code generation is addressed.
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Re:Ask HN: How can we fix Wikipedia? by snarkerson on Saturday March 05, 2022 @10:42AM (#30568439)
That's almost just like doing something to fix things.
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