The Pronunciation Guides in Wikipedia are Useless

Okay, I know that I am old, but in my day the dictionaries had pronunciation guides which were comprehensible. Short vowel sound in lower case, long vowel sound in lower case with a bar over it, only the upside down e was tough to learn.
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So here is the pronunciation for "Aquitaine" in Websters: ˈa-kwə-ˌtān
Easy...
- Frist syllable: short a and this syllable is emphasized.
- Second syllable: well the kw is the qu sound, so no problem the upside down e is as in bleh.
- Third syllable with a long a.
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But Wikipedia, on the other, suffers from design by committee.  Here is their pronunciation of
"Aquitaine": French pronunciation: ​[a.ki'tɛn], English /ˌækwɪˈteɪn/
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To which I can only say... what?  If you gave me only this, without the actual word, I would have no idea what it is:
ækwɪˈteɪn