On: Ask HN: How can we fix Wikipedia?

[threatofrain]

> 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.

[adhesive_wombat → threatofrain]

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.

[zozbot234 → threatofrain]

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.

[snarkerson → threatofrain]

That's almost just like doing something to fix things.