Editing Bad user interface

A '''bad user interface''' is one that makes implementation easier, not the user's experience easier.  Most good programmers doing their best to design a user interface will produce a very '''bad user interface'''.  User interfaces should never be designed by programmers - one of the major [[problems with free software and open source models]] is that programmers do what they themselves want, not what the end users want.  This is just another example of overtrust in one's own judgement, [[systemic bias]] and [[groupthink]] leading to bad decisions.  For example [[User:Juxo]] writes:
:"I really want a separate Opinion Wiki simply because we can aggregate data (votes on campaigns etc.) via SQL queries so we don't need to mess up MediaWiki "

Notice the various bad assumptions:
*[[edits, votes and bets]] can be managed through "SQL queries", which assumes that bad [[wiki code]] that actually relies on SQL is in use in all these wikis
*creating a separate visible user interface entity to force users to decide to move things around collectively, causing fights, instead of using a neutral or objective method to do it within one interface, as [[politics as usual]] demands
*[[MediaWiki]], instead of being cloned or scrapped, is somehow always in use

It's obvious that belief in the use of [[MediaWiki]] itself is creating '''bad user interface''' decisions.  Perhaps it is time to consider [[MoinMoin]] or [[Tikiwiki]] again.