Maniphest T204834

[Needs input] Show the category button on pages without any categories
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	• Niedzielski
	Sep 19 2018, 3:38 PM

Description

The friendly mechanism for adding categories on the mobile site is to tap the categories button and then "add categories." However, the initial categories button is not shown for pages which presently have no category memberships. This behavior doesn't encourage users to add categories to the pages that most need them and should be fixed.

Steps to Reproduce

Create a new page

Expected Results

The categories button is shown

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Actual Results

The categories button is not shown

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Environments Observed

Minerva mobile site

Browser Version

Chromium 69.0.3497.81

OS Version

Ubuntu 18.04

Device Model

Desktop

Device Language

English

Developer notes

Category adding by people who don't know exactly what they are doing is probably not something we want to encourage and one of the reasons the feature has been in limbo for so long.

Also adding categories is subject to a lag (T163121).

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Declined		None	T124865 Support any default type of pages in the app
Open		None	T158181 Aim for workflow equivalence for MediaWiki on desktop and mobile web
Resolved	Goal	ovasileva	T198313 [GOAL] Advanced mobile contributions
Open		None	T24660 Display the categories on the mobile site for everyone
Declined		None	T204834 [Needs input] Show the category button on pages without any categories

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• Niedzielski created this task.Sep 19 2018, 3:38 PM

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Jdlrobson lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Sep 19 2018, 4:15 PM

Jdlrobson added a parent task: T24660: Display the categories on the mobile site for everyone.

Jdlrobson moved this task from Incoming to Needs Prioritization on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Sep 25 2018, 10:15 PM

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I don't believe we should be encouraging the adding of categories as I fear it would encourage vandalism.

Adding categories is an advanced editor activity and the primary focus of this overlay is to showcase existing categories. If editors want to add categories they still can via the same mechanism as desktop - adding a link to the bottom of the page.

We should make a decision about this one way or the other during AMC project.

Jdlrobson renamed this task from [Bug] Categories and category add buttons not shown when page has no categories to [Needs input] Show the category button on pages without any categories.Dec 11 2018, 11:16 PM

ovasileva moved this task from Backlog to Existing requests on the Advanced Mobile Contributions board.Feb 18 2019, 4:21 PM

I agree with this proposal. It would be a lot easier to add categories. On the side note, there should be a way to add and remove categories as well like the HotCat gadget. Currently on mobile interface, there is no way to add and remove categories except using the editor (visual and source). For me it's like a pain to remove categories using the mobile interface. It's like this. Open the editor, find the wikitext that adds a certain category, and then remove it. Too many steps, in my opinion for a lazy person like myself.

Masumrezarock100 awarded a token.Sep 7 2019, 6:11 AM

Jdlrobson mentioned this in T246049: Remove the category overlay feature and output html-categories.Feb 24 2020, 11:39 PM

Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to Team: web on the MobileFrontend board.Jul 24 2020, 3:01 PM

Stalled on T246049

The category overlay will be removed as part of T246049.

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