[SPIKE] Determine whether collapsible sections in `Read as wikipage view` should be preserved
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	Apr 26 2021, 11:57 PM

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Currently, when people arrive on the Read as wikipage version of talk pages on mobile web, they see all of the sections on that page collapsed. [i]

This spike is for determining whether this behavior should be preserved as part of the improvements the Editing Team has planned for mobile talk pages as part of the Talk pages project.

Considerations

The current collapsible sections behavior [i] depends on modifications MobileFrontend is making to the "base" [iii] state of mobile talk pages.

Open questions

What – if anything – should be changed about the current collapsed sections behavior [i] when we converge on a single talk page view [ii]?

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All ===Open questions are answered and documented in the ===Open questions section above

i. Screenshot showing current behavior of "collapsed" sections

ii. T280417
iii. "Base state" = the raw, non-#discussiontools version, of mobile talk page HTML

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		Resolved		None	T278588 Mobile talk page improvements
		Resolved		• ppelberg	T281204 [SPIKE] Determine whether collapsible sections in `Read as wikipage view` should be preserved

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• ppelberg created this task.Apr 26 2021, 11:57 PM

• ppelberg moved this task from Untriaged to Next Quarter on the Editing-team board.

• ppelberg moved this task from Backlog to Triaged on the DiscussionTools board.

• ppelberg mentioned this in T278588: Mobile talk page improvements.Apr 27 2021, 12:14 AM

Yes, people seemed very upset when we accidentally broke this feature in T280433.

If we wanted to replace it, then we'd need to introduce another way of quickly navigating between sections (e.g. a more "traditional" table of contents).

We've never discussed this explicitly, but I think it's because it was so obvious to everyone that the collapsibility is helpful. I think we can close this.

In T281204#8371889, @matmarex wrote:

We've never discussed this explicitly, but I think it's because it was so obvious to everyone that the collapsibility is helpful. I think we can close this.

Agreed. And the work to implement this section-collapsing-by-defualt behavior is happening in T321618.

• ppelberg closed this task as Resolved.Nov 19 2022, 1:22 AM

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