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Signpost is not readable on mobile devices
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Right now, the Signpost is difficult to read on mobile devices. I'd like to investigate how the HTML can he modified to be responsive.

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 ResolvedTheDJT128095 Signpost is not readable on mobile devices
 ResolvedTgrT133410 Deploy TemplateStyles to WMF production
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• Tnegrin created this task.Feb 25 2016, 4:09 PM
Restricted Application added subscribers: StudiesWorld, Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptFeb 25 2016, 4:09 PM
EdErhart-WMF subscribed.Feb 25 2016, 4:11 PM
EdErhart-WMF added a comment.Feb 25 2016, 4:17 PM

Some background: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost&oldid=706707892#Mobile_view_not_great
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Signpost_Mobile_App
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.yuvi.signpost

Copying over a quote from Wikipedia Weekly: mobile viewing been a problem since I was the editor of the Signpost. Without a tech person to design for that, and with 90%+ of the readers coming from the desktop site already anyway, it was hard to justify sinking so much time into addressing the problem. The planned alternative was a mobile app that a staffer kindly built on their own time in 2012, but it broke in 2013 and was not fixed.

• Tnegrin added a comment.Feb 25 2016, 4:27 PM

Other pages with issues on mobile:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Dialogue
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016

Krenair renamed this task from Modify signpost to be readable on mobile devices to Modify pages to be readable on mobile devices.Feb 25 2016, 4:35 PM
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Please add some projects to this task. I doubt signpost changes are in scope for phabricator really.

Pcoombe subscribed.Feb 25 2016, 5:01 PM
Tgr added a project: Mobile.Feb 26 2016, 6:46 AM
Tgr subscribed.

See also the Signpost app which used to be quite nice.

• Tnegrin added a subscriber: • Moushira.Feb 26 2016, 2:22 PM

It turns out that per @Moushira, Village pumps also don't render well on mobile.

• Moushira added projects: Readers-Community-Engagement, Reading-Web-Planning.Feb 26 2016, 3:58 PM
bd808 added a subtask: T483: RfC: Allow styling in templates.Feb 26 2016, 4:31 PM
MBinder_WMF edited projects, added Web-Team-Backlog; removed Reading-Web-Planning.May 17 2016, 6:28 PM
Jdlrobson changed the task status from Open to Stalled.May 25 2016, 4:45 PM
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Blocked on RFC

• Jhernandez moved this task from Incoming to 2014-15 Q4 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.May 25 2016, 4:46 PM
• Moushira moved this task from ToDo to On The Radar on the Readers-Community-Engagement board.Aug 17 2016, 12:00 PM
Jdlrobson removed a project: Web-Team-Backlog.Jun 15 2017, 10:12 PM
Jdlrobson renamed this task from Modify pages to be readable on mobile devices to Signpost is not readable on mobile devices.Jul 19 2017, 1:17 AM
Jdlrobson added a project: Local-Wiki-Template-And-Gadget-Issues.
Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to TemplateStyles on the Local-Wiki-Template-And-Gadget-Issues board.Jul 19 2017, 1:28 AM
Jdlrobson merged a task: T133587: mobile view of the signpost page is broken.
Jdlrobson added subscribers: Dzahn, Mschon.
Jdlrobson moved this task from Needs triage to Triaged on the Mobile board.Jul 25 2017, 5:48 PM
TheDJ subscribed.EditedJul 25 2017, 6:51 PM

I've since mostly fixed this without templatestyles btw. It relies on several techniques, like columns, flexbox enhancements and viewport relative dimensions..

Some examples:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-07-15/News_and_notes

There's still some on and off problems though, because the structure is VERY critical now, and editors of articles tend to easily break it.

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Jdforrester-WMF reopened subtask T483: RfC: Allow styling in templates as Open.Feb 22 2018, 5:13 PM
Jdforrester-WMF removed a subtask: T483: RfC: Allow styling in templates.
Jdforrester-WMF added a subtask: T133410: Deploy TemplateStyles to WMF production.Feb 22 2018, 5:16 PM
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TheDJ closed this task as Resolved.Apr 24 2018, 12:04 PM
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calling this resolved.

Tgr closed subtask T133410: Deploy TemplateStyles to WMF production as Resolved.Aug 9 2018, 11:23 AM
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