Wikimedia

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Wikimedia, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Can't search for combinations of traits like frescos of Italian castles2026-05-15
Using the dumps was an incredibly unintuitive process for the commenter2025-05-02
Category search is difficult and doesn't let you search nicely, so users pick wrong categories2023-12-06
Uploading photos is cumbersome, with no phone apps available2022-10-31
Searching requires clicking through categories and subcategories to reach image results2020-05-27
Interface auto-switches to a language the user didn't choose, a hard-to-reverse default2015-09-18
Tiles take seconds to appear after zooming, making the map effectively unusable2015-09-18