There's not much help on desktop either. :(

At least (on English Wikipedia) you have that when you clock on "view source":

In general we don't show any edit notices[1] in either of the mobile editors.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editnotice

(That was a miss-click. I hate workboards.)

Noting related task T208827

@JTannerWMF @marcella can you verify if this describes the same issue as T208827?

In T206829#5147687, @alexhollender wrote:

@JTannerWMF @marcella can you verify if this describes the same issue as T208827?

This is not quite the same, though they are certainly related. This task is specifically about guiding the user towards next steps, "to create an account or attempt a page that is not as likely to be protected." It is not about improving access to source/wikitext. Does that help @alexhollender?

@marcella yes thank you for clarifying. It seems like we should possibly think about the following cases:

It does seem like it might make sense to combine this task with T208827 and make it broadly about improving UX for trying to edit/view source protected pages for both logged-in and logged-out users, since it seems like any solution here should be considerate of the solution in T208827 and vice-versa. Thoughts?

@matmarex proposed a solution in T221328 of:

Problem: When a page is protected, new users get a message like "This page is protected to prevent vandalism". It does not provide advice as to why it is locked or what to do next.
Solution: Guide the user to create an account or attempt editing pages that are not protected.

It looks like there is an open question to @marcella on this. How can we unblock this to start building?

Looks like the original report is talking about "semi-protected" pages which are only uneditable by logged out users, so I've updated the title.

In T206829#5303707, @Esanders wrote:

Looks like the original report is talking about "semi-protected" pages which are only uneditable by logged out users, so I've updated the title.

I wonder if it makes sense to consider both cases (protected & semi-protected) here? See T206829#5202751 in case you didn't already.

In T206829#5304178, @alexhollender wrote:

In T206829#5303707, @Esanders wrote:

Looks like the original report is talking about "semi-protected" pages which are only uneditable by logged out users, so I've updated the title.

I wonder if it makes sense to consider both cases (protected & semi-protected) here? See T206829#5202751 in case you didn't already.

I did, but I think in the full-protected case we can't make the experience much better for the user, so we may want to give that a lower priority.

I think we should use the same messages that are shown on desktop. The English Wikipedia message looks actually quite helpful:

The most important reason to do so is that there are more protection levels than semi and full, and they are different on each wiki, depending on the local policies/configuration. For example, English Wikipedia has extended confirmed and template protection as well; Polish Wikipedia has medium protection.

There is already a system in place to define messages for each of these and display them in the appropriate case, and I think it would be impractical for us to maintain new messages, and inconsiderate to task the communities with maintaining an additional set of new messages instead.

The tricky part is figuring out how to adapt the styling of existing messages to the mobile interface.

The tricky part is figuring out how to adapt the styling of existing messages to the mobile interface.

Assuming that is an appropriate amount of text and detail to show on a mobile device.