Minerva should reuse the same footer links that all the other skins do instead of implementing this specifically.

Minerva should reuse the same footer links that all the other skins do instead of implementing this specifically.

This. The lack of all the normal other navigation (sidebar) is also a bit concerning - can what is shown be configured at all on-wiki?

Some clarifications / notes:

• Minerva should reuse the same footer links that all the other skins do instead of implementing this specifically.

Minerva does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer?useskin=minerva

• It's MobileFrontend that simplifies the menu and that applies to all skins operating in mobile site mode: https://m.mediawiki.org/?useskin=timeless
• We have been experimenting with showing a console message without any luck (no bites as far as we can tell): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Mobile-frontend-console-recruit Feel free to experiment with different messaging.
• The existing developer link in a mobile browser has a lot of room for improvement: https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute
• Have we any evidence the developer link has actually pulled people into our community?
• Is this really a use case on mobile?
• The footer (and main menu) would really benefit from being more structured to allow for responsive design - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/382887/ - it's very desktop-centric and restricts presentation. I was talking about this with krinkle and I'd like to see this resolved.

I don't really have strong opinions/interest in the matter but these should all be considered.

In T181442#3795338, @Jdlrobson wrote:

• The existing developer link in a mobile browser has a lot of room for improvement: https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute

@Jdlrobson: Sorry for re-adding you to this task but could you elaborate which aspects you refer to? Because I'd be happy to take a look.

• Have we any evidence the developer link has actually pulled people into our community?

Evidence is hard as I personally would not call mw:How_to_contribute a "developer[s] link" but a general catch-all for any types of contributions, hence it also has a authors/translators/etc audience. We've only recently started to run quarterly surveys on new developers.

In T181442#3793269, @Legoktm wrote:

reuse the same footer links that all the other skins do instead of implementing this specifically.

Agreed that MobileFrontend should do so.

In T181442#3796232, @Nemo_bis wrote:

In T181442#3793269, @Legoktm wrote:

reuse the same footer links that all the other skins do instead of implementing this specifically.

Agreed that MobileFrontend should do so.

Of course.

Given that Minerva does properly add these links (yay!) it seems like we just need to remove whatever in MobileFrontend is disabling them?