LilaTretikov (WMF)
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=== Comment to one of Lila's questions ===
''decisions that move us forward, rather than backwards'' - this question leads to another one that is much more essential: where is forward and where is backwards? where should wikipedia move to, and why? It is this question that needs to be discussed but at the time being is ignored. So it is hardly possible to say whether we agree or disagree and why. This is one reason why the media viewer has been treated as a pure question of power (especially by WMF). In the media viewer case, it should simply be acknowledged that at the core there is a dissens between "design" (in the sense of aesthetic presentation) vs. "information" (for use and understanding of media files). I, for my part, feel that information in this sense is a vital part of an encyclopedic project whereas aesthetic presentation is nice to have. The WMF developers seem to think that it is the other way round: information is nice but negligible whereas aesthetic presentation is vital.--[[User:Mautpreller|Mautpreller]] ([[User talk:Mautpreller|talk]]) 10:30, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
In addition: one might say that these two objectives need not exclude each other. I utterly agree. However, a software change that (disputably) might improve aesthetic presentation ''at the expense'' of vital information for reuse and understanding of the media files does treat these two objectives as mutually excluding each other. I feel that this is fundamentally wrong. And it is even more wrong to "solve" this problem by force instead of bargaining.--[[User:Mautpreller|Mautpreller]] ([[User talk:Mautpreller|talk]]) 11:20, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
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