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If you had to choose one priority for the Wikimedia movement to focus on over the next five years, what would it be?

If I had to choose 1 priority it would be improving the usability of Wikipedia. I'd like to see it look more like Microsoft Word 2010 or Google Docs or Google Wave and less like Hotmail circa 1996. That always turned me off.

The second priority would be making Wikimedia more like Aardvark in that we ask people what they're knowledgeable about, what they can do. Then we would automatically assign tasks to people who profess to be good at certain things.

Have you ever used Aardvark?

Also I'd love to see the Timeline feature that Google Wave uses where you can watch a Wikipedia page created over the course of time.

This is Happening01:32, 5 May 2010

If I had to choose one priority of those listed at Strategic Plan/Movement Priorities, I would definitely choose the diversity one.

Improving usability is absolutely a way to achieve this priority. I'd recommend taking a look at Category:Proposals for improving usability to see if there are proposals folks have already posted that you're interested in.

Eekim20:57, 5 May 2010