We are talking about very similar topic which solves this task over here > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94298

@Wittylama do you wanna close this task and give your feedback to some of the options i presented here > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94298#2287988

@Nirzar I think either of those two mockups are fine concepts - my only point is that when there's something that's a link, the fact that it is clickable should be made evident. For example, in the first mockup you provided the "edited by 72 members" doesn't pass this test because there's no way to know that it goes to the history page.

So, in that sense, this bug still stands regardless of what changes in text are made - the links still need to be indicated *as links* to mobile readers.

the notion of "links" is an old one. particularly derived from desktop. times have changed and so is the user behavior. on mobile content is used as a hook to more content. instead of a blue underline link that says "contributions" we say "237 edits" and user expectation is tapping on it would show me all those edits aka edit history.

Here are few examples and you can see this on mobile in almost any app. i just took the popular ones -

Instagram - tapping on "36.4k followers" i see all followers

Twitter
tapping on "693 following" i see list of people wikipedia follows

I actually wanted to be even more cautious so i wanted to add chevrons on right side that indicate navigational element according to apple HCI guidelines[1]

So i added the chevron to begin with on the footer realignment task. here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141002

You can also see the chevron in the other concepts that i presented.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/

The other discussion - T94298 - is about redesigning the layout of the mobile footer to remove the 'last edited by' section. I am not expressing an opinion on that issue. THIS bug is about indicating that something which is a link, is somehow identifiable as a link. That could be underlined, blue, chevron, some kind of shading to indicate a button, whatever.
But, since linking is apparently no longer a thing on the internet, I guess that means you can close this bug as 'wontfix'.

THIS bug is about indicating that something which is a link, is somehow identifiable as a link. That could be underlined, blue, chevron, some kind of shading to indicate a button, whatever.

Yes but what i was getting at is we are fixing the "linking" issue with changing the content itself. there are two ways to fix the linking issue. one is change the treatment and other is change the content. i was opting for the second one since it solves two things. but in any case, for now, the team will be working on this which adds a chevron. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141002 as first step.

the second step is improving the content.

does https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141002 solve this task?

Also, i really want to make this particular feature better. i think it is really important for us to invest effort in this. definitely not trying to hide it and make it obscure. so i assure you not making it look like a link is not about hiding it.

@Jdlrobson if you would like to close this ticket, please close it as "won't fix" rather than '"resolved". It is not resolved at all - the question has simply been declared invalid.
This is not a request for major renovations - it was just a small bug!

I am not expressing an opinion on any new clever design ideas the WMF staff are preparing for the footer. Maybe they'll be great, who knows. All this ticket was about is the fact that current footer says for example:

"Last edited 5 hours ago by Wittylama"
whereby the words before the word "by" are a link to the page-history, and the word after "by" is a link to the most recent editor's userpage.

On desktop you can rollover those words which will give them an underline - indicating that they are links to other pages. However on mobile there is no way to know that there is any link - let alone two, to different places.

This was not a ticket requesting some radical redesign of the footer or a new imagining of how it works. This was just a bug to say that readers on mobile can't possibly know that there are two separate links in that sentence displayed at the bottom of every page, and that this could be easily fixed (even as an interim measure) a number of ways - e.g. underlining, italicising, blue text...

So - if you're not going to give any visual indication to mobile readers that the linked text "last edited 5 hours ago" is a link - notwithstanding @Nirzar 's declaration that "the notion of "links" is an old one", then just close this as Wontfix instead.