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Editor, and asked everyone if they would prefer a visual editor, and almost everyone raised their hand, while only one person raised their hand when asked if they like the text editor better. This makes editing difficult, and it puts up immense and elitist barrier for people to edit articles. It comes across as being completely uncaring for users. It is not clear to me whether there is fear that there will be a torrent of editing, or that they are having trouble finding resources developing it. On the latter subject, I feel that we in the
Knowledge (XXG) community act more like a beggar than we need to. There is no reason why money cannot be raised for a particular project when it is needed. It appears that the Foundation wants to stick to an ethic of being minimally involved in running Knowledge (XXG), and money and development and editing being done by the community. This is something I very strongly respect. That is why I think that we as Wikipedians need to go out and get resources for Knowledge (XXG), and not expecting others to do it. That is the spirit of Knowledge (XXG).
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So how do we go about this? As far as ideas to improve
Knowledge (XXG), I believe that anything from individual projects like the Visual Editor to editing articles en masse can be done by going to foundations and running campaigns using resources like Kickstarter. As long as this is designed well
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Knowledge (XXG) has very large shortcomings. It is taking too long for Knowledge (XXG) to develop basic features, especially the Visual Editor. Almost no one likes text editing more than a visual editor. I know this because at Wikimania, someone did a talk featuring the Visual
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Knowledge (XXG) is immensely empowering. I feel that as knowledge is power, if you ever want to inform people, the first thing you should do is edit a
Knowledge (XXG) article. Knowledge (XXG) has provided a key foundation of the work I do and the way I see the age we live in. I find it to be a
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they would not undermine the underlying culture and democracy of
Knowledge (XXG), and not overpower volunteers. See my opinion about creating kickstarters for Knowledge (XXG) editing, archived from an earlier talk page on the reward board.
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powerful institution that has sound policies and governance. It has the right mix of bottom-up governance and the ability to mediate and arbitrate on decisions. It's almost a reflection on governance in general.
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