[yetanotheracc]

Policy wise, this comment is a blatant violation of [[WP:COI]] and [[WP:SPAM]].

Substantially, I am so glad that Wikipedia is governed by the community. Otherwise, it would be a matter of time until some young, bright and dynamic manager decided to implement a subset of the "improvements" you propose - with a disastrous effect.

[davidgerard]

Newslines is the guy's startup, aspiring to compete with Wikipedia.

[sparkzilla]

Actually we are much bigger than just competing with Wikipedia. We combine aspects of Wikipedia, daily news, Youtube, LinkedIn and (coming soon) Facebook.

[chris_wot]

Sounds like a lot of competing interests. Best of luck to you, but I think you'll find this hard to accomplish well.

[sparkzilla]

Thanks!

[sparkzilla]

I'm not saying Wikipedia should make those improvements; I am saying there are better models for content production. Wikipedia can't make those improvements anyway, as its community is extremely conservative, and despite the power it has, it cannot make any changes to the software. The best you can hope for is window dressing.