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A5 Page Option
Please add an option for A5 size paper. The idea is to have a page which fits a tablet device better (and for those of us with less than perfect eyesight). A4 is too large (or to put it another way, the text is too small) and scrolling around two column A4 is tedious. At present A4 puts about 117 characters on a line. Reducing this to A5 would make it about 72 characters per line, nearer the ideal for readable lines of text. Tom Worthington (talk) 09:41, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Once again... non zero code, non-responsive Wikipedia Comment
Another day, another "non zero code" message. Users keep reporting this problem. Nobody at Wikipedia responds.
Transparency here is non-existent. Wikipedia is 100% opaque. No replies, no fixes for this long-term problem, no "sorry, we're looking into it", and nothing to indicate that the power-wielders at Wikipedia care. They love/live to revert pages seemingly at random, to send confusing messages with unexplained finger-wagging; they are classic Freudian arrogant head cases with big-fish-in-a-small-pond syndrome: "Hey, boy, I'm the sheriff in these here parts, and I'm keepin' an eye on you." When there is an actual problem that is affecting many users, they are silent and useless. Why?
Yes, believe it or not, I'm pissed off. Wikipedia asks users for money and simultaneously disrespects them. Is this what Jimmy Wales had in mind? I doubt it. How about a response to the people struggling with these "non zero code" and other errors? How about any indication that anyone is listening? Stop hiding behind your usernames and come out for air.
I've donated, I've bought "product", I've done (mostly minor) edits on pages to correct errors. As Roberto Duran once said, "no más". I've volunteered at brick-and-mortar organizations where people have said "thanks"; it kept me returning. In other places, people have said nothing, and that soon kept me from returning. If this treatment of Wikipedia's users ("give us money and go away"), the future of Wikipedia will be the words, "Well, it was a good idea...".
Username: folder1 / Real name: Peter F 09:27, 5 August 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Folder1 (talk • contribs)