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	<title>Comments on: Wikipedia&#8217;s Beta: Pretty Yet Petty</title>
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		<title>By: gallium</title>
		<link>http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2009/08/06/wikipedia-beta-review/comment-page-1/#comment-658</link>
		<dc:creator>gallium</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To be fair wikipedia&#039;s previous skin (now known as classic) has the search bar in the top right rather than the almost-halfway-down-the-left-sidebar and was in use as late as 84AD.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To be fair wikipedia&#8217;s previous skin (now known as classic) has the search bar in the top right rather than the almost-halfway-down-the-left-sidebar and was in use as late as 84AD.</p>
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		<title>By: X</title>
		<link>http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2009/08/06/wikipedia-beta-review/comment-page-1/#comment-656</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Humorous?  Snarky != humorous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Humorous?  Snarky != humorous.</p>
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		<title>By: Gregory Kohs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gregory Kohs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s what this story lacked: background.  The Usability Initiative was made possible by a grant from the Ruth &amp; Frank Stanton Fund.  Guess what was one of the first things on which the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) expended that grant money?  Office space for the new code developers that would be hired!  Well, WMF founder Jimmy Wales&#039; privately-held corporation, Wikia, Inc., has been hitting quite a few potholes lately (laying off staff, shutting down the failed &quot;Wikia Search&quot; debacle, etc.).  So, when they heard that the WMF (on whose Board of Trustees, Wales also sits) would be hiring code developers that the WMF headquarters on Stillman Street didn&#039;t have space for, Wikia presented a sub-lease bid to the WMF.  It wasn&#039;t the lowest bid, not by a long-shot.  But, the WMF really, really, really, really wanted to get some of that tax-advantaged Stanton cash into Jimbo&#039;s pocket somehow, so they ASKED WIKIA IF THEY MIGHT KINDLY RE-BID, so that their price might at least be in line with the average of all bids received.  Since Wikia is apparently in such dire financial straits, and they had all that office space sitting around, since they recently laid off a significant portion of their paid workforce, Wikia capitulated and lowered their price a bit.  Heck, it was still free money, right?

Now, when someone like me asked how this is not self-dealing, or at least gives the impression of self-dealing, I was shouted down as a &quot;disgruntled troll&quot;.  I wonder if someone in the news media might pick up the ball and run with it?  It does seem very strange that the same &quot;disgruntled former employee&quot; excuse was trotted out when people began asking questions about Jimbo&#039;s Moscow expense reimbursements and why he called in favors to get Rachel Marsden&#039;s biography edited.  Hmm...  Any journalists around here?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s what this story lacked: background.  The Usability Initiative was made possible by a grant from the Ruth &amp; Frank Stanton Fund.  Guess what was one of the first things on which the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) expended that grant money?  Office space for the new code developers that would be hired!  Well, WMF founder Jimmy Wales&#8217; privately-held corporation, Wikia, Inc., has been hitting quite a few potholes lately (laying off staff, shutting down the failed &#8220;Wikia Search&#8221; debacle, etc.).  So, when they heard that the WMF (on whose Board of Trustees, Wales also sits) would be hiring code developers that the WMF headquarters on Stillman Street didn&#8217;t have space for, Wikia presented a sub-lease bid to the WMF.  It wasn&#8217;t the lowest bid, not by a long-shot.  But, the WMF really, really, really, really wanted to get some of that tax-advantaged Stanton cash into Jimbo&#8217;s pocket somehow, so they ASKED WIKIA IF THEY MIGHT KINDLY RE-BID, so that their price might at least be in line with the average of all bids received.  Since Wikia is apparently in such dire financial straits, and they had all that office space sitting around, since they recently laid off a significant portion of their paid workforce, Wikia capitulated and lowered their price a bit.  Heck, it was still free money, right?</p>
<p>Now, when someone like me asked how this is not self-dealing, or at least gives the impression of self-dealing, I was shouted down as a &#8220;disgruntled troll&#8221;.  I wonder if someone in the news media might pick up the ball and run with it?  It does seem very strange that the same &#8220;disgruntled former employee&#8221; excuse was trotted out when people began asking questions about Jimbo&#8217;s Moscow expense reimbursements and why he called in favors to get Rachel Marsden&#8217;s biography edited.  Hmm&#8230;  Any journalists around here?</p>
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		<title>By: wadd</title>
		<link>http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2009/08/06/wikipedia-beta-review/comment-page-1/#comment-649</link>
		<dc:creator>wadd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe you should report these flaws to developers. When you use beta interface, you get &quot;Beta feedback&quot; button up.

You should try it, if you really want more enhancements.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe you should report these flaws to developers. When you use beta interface, you get &#8220;Beta feedback&#8221; button up.</p>
<p>You should try it, if you really want more enhancements.</p>
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		<title>By: BT</title>
		<link>http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2009/08/06/wikipedia-beta-review/comment-page-1/#comment-645</link>
		<dc:creator>BT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The wiki can&#039;t automatically focus the cursor in the search box, as people who use arrow keys to scroll will instead pop up autotext in the search field.  Logged in users can change this with a checkbox in their preferences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Main_Page_FAQ#Why_doesn.27t_the_cursor_appear_in_the_search_box.2C_like_with_Google.3F</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The wiki can&#8217;t automatically focus the cursor in the search box, as people who use arrow keys to scroll will instead pop up autotext in the search field.  Logged in users can change this with a checkbox in their preferences: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Main_Page_FAQ#Why_doesn.27t_the_cursor_appear_in_the_search_box.2C_like_with_Google.3F" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Main_Page_FAQ#Why_doesn.27t_the_cursor_appear_in_the_search_box.2C_like_with_Google.3F</a></p>
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