You can't engage gradually - if you don't get everything exactly right first time you just get spat out with little or no feedback or encouragement.
Designers of user interfaces have learned over time that you need to engage gradually and give positive feedback for the good bits, while gently removing the bad bits. WikiPedia seems to do exactly the opposite.
User Hostile rather than User Friendly.
More, in the push to become a "proper" encyclopedia the markup has become remarkably baroque, making it almost impossible to get to know what to do. The macros and other procedures that work behind the scenes are nearly impossible to grok given the lack of tools to help.
Overall, it's simply groaning under the mass of twiddles and has no elegance.
Designers of user interfaces have learned over time that you need to engage gradually and give positive feedback for the good bits, while gently removing the bad bits. WikiPedia seems to do exactly the opposite.
User Hostile rather than User Friendly.
More, in the push to become a "proper" encyclopedia the markup has become remarkably baroque, making it almost impossible to get to know what to do. The macros and other procedures that work behind the scenes are nearly impossible to grok given the lack of tools to help.
Overall, it's simply groaning under the mass of twiddles and has no elegance.