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by colechristensen 1699 days ago
I would prefer they not "improve", especially so in order to sell donations.

Wikipedia has largely stayed the same since its inception and that is part of its power. So many things have "improved" themselves into irrelevance, or wasted enormous amounts of resources changing things that don't need change.

There is a deep pit of improving things to satisfy the loudest people who "want" and not realizing until far too late that you're optimizing to a loud majority while your overall appeal shrinks to nothing. (Think of it like a grocery store dropping the least popular half of its products every few months... eventually they'd be left with light beer and ketchup confused about why nobody comes by any more)

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Wikipedia, please continue improving. You first came out in 2001, 6 years before the first iPhone and computing has changed since then. I don't want a grocery store that only has items from 2001 and has never freshened up their products since then. (I wouldn't mind 2001 prices though.) Please keep trying new things with my donation dollars. No one can predict the future perfectly, and especially with how technology continually changes the landscape of the Internet.