Thread:User talk:Siebrand/"English is the source language"/reply (2)

This edit button, for example: [//translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=MediaWiki:Wikieditor-toolbar-dialogs-preference/en&action=edit]. I used the full text search to search for a message, clicked edit and edited it. If nobody is allowed to edit why is there an edit button?

About choice of words: English is not my native language. I don't have much words I can choose from. I try to explain what I see, what I think and how it feels. So you can understand what I'm talking about. I don't know how to do it different. I tell you what I see. Like it is. Nothing is personal. I don't know you. It can't be personal. We never met.

Additionally I wish you would consider that simply deleting useful edits or replacing a well usable interface with an unusable is like a kick in the face for me (and from what I see for many other users). What should I do? Shut up and go away like everybody else does? There are way to many users that do this. They give up or never try. If you want me to do the same then good bye. You will never see me again if the old and well working interface is ever deleted before the new does not provide the same features, usability and clarity.

Why do you think I'm here? Why do you think I'm wasting so much time with writing feedback for WMF stuff (recently I wrote a lot for the Article Feedback Tool developers)? Don't you think I do this to help making things better? I love the Wikipedia and (most) other Wikimedia projects because we all want to make the world a better place. We just have different views on what "a better place" means. For me it's not "a better place" if a working interface is replaced with something that can not be used on computers older than two years and therefor locking many people out. Wikimedia projects need to be open. For as many people as possible. This includes users of Internet Explorer 9. This includes users with a 1024x768 pixel screen (like on a tablet PC). This includes users that want to translate two messages the same time. This includes users that want to see more than 16 non-truncated messages on a single screen.