Wikipedia's WYSIWYG Dilemma

December 8, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

The Wikimedia Foundation recently announced an $890,000 grant from the U.S.-based Stanton Foundation to simplify its very techie user interface for editing posts. It’s a big chunk of change on top of a new $6 million budget for the nonprofit encyclopedia, who some argue needs major restructuring rather than a simple cash infusion.

“Any amount of money thrown at it is not going to solve the problems,” said Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo. “Putting up a WYSIWYG editor will cost like $50,000. It’s not that big of a deal.”

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