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Re:Ask HN: How can we fix Wikipedia? by adhesive_wombat on Saturday March 05, 2022 @12:24PM (#30569551)
My favourite irony with the WMF's love of funding racial justice [1] is that one thing that does not work well at all in MediaWiki is the mobile editing interface [2]. It's basically just plain text and you're expected to type in the syntax manually on a phone, and also all the links to the talk, history and other pages are hidden when editing. Guess which countries disproportionately use mobile devices and don't have as much access to actual computers.

[1] Not my emphasis: the KEF seems very much racial rather then social. Social justice that cuts across "class" lines rather than race lines seems much inherently fairer to me, since the point is to offset disadvantages, and race is a proxy of disadvantage, while "class" is almost a direct statement of how disadvantaged you are.

[2] The reading interface is quite good, though certainly could be better (hidden ToCs in articles?).

Re:Ask HN: How can we fix Wikipedia? by zozbot234 on Saturday March 05, 2022 @01:01PM (#30570001)
> the mobile editing interface

They used to have a formalized project aimed at improving this, but it seems that work on it stopped mid-2019. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_c... Their stated (as of 2019) workflow requires going to site settings and turning on a special "Advanced" interface in order to get something that's not broken. Awful.