[SPIKE] Investigate level of effort and practicality of full page editing in iOS app
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	JTannerWMF
	Feb 1 2023, 6:58 PM

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Background
An item from the community wishlist is for users to be able to edit a full page. This would be both for editing the full page of an article instead of sections, user pages and talk pages. This has been implemented already on Android (T103622). The editor on iOS is different than Android's so we will need to investigate the level of effort to implement such a thing in iOS.

Task

Create subtasks for the implementation of full page editing
Provide estimations for tasks
Investigate performance implications for the change

Performance implications

Video of current editor performance vs. a native wikitext editor (prototype) performance.

Link to native wikitext editor proposal - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WWwXCZPVWpnE7fg3KgUZMG2DxrKkh7NWFRvDV2O_oF8/edit

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T331936: [Task] Allow full page editing on talk pages
T331935: [Task] Entry flow for full page editing on article
Mentioned Here: T329846: Talk Pages - add wikitext syntax highlighting to compose text views
T103622: Can't edit the whole page on Wikipedia App

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JTannerWMF created this task.Feb 1 2023, 6:58 PM

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JTannerWMF moved this task from Tasks from Product Backlog to Needs Engineering Sync on the iOS Release FY2023-24 (Archive) board.

LGoto moved this task from Needs Triage to Product Backlog on the Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog board.Feb 7 2023, 7:33 PM

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Tsevener moved this task from Ready for Development to Doing on the iOS Release FY2023-24 (Archive) board.Mar 9 2023, 2:08 PM

Progress in full-page-editing branch.

Kicking off a TestFlight Experimental build (#14) of how it's acting so far. It might help to see how it feels and what UI needs to change (if any). You can access from the talk page overflow menu, as well as from the alert popup when tapping on the first pencil in article.

@OTichonova please test only on Test articles.

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Tsevener mentioned this in T331935: [Task] Entry flow for full page editing on article.Mar 13 2023, 9:55 PM

Tsevener updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 13 2023, 10:22 PM

I'm holding on estimates until design is done with any editing flow changes they may want here. I do propose the faster path by leaning on our current CodeMirror editor.

Tsevener moved this task from Doing to Blocked or Waiting on the iOS Release FY2023-24 (Archive) board.Mar 13 2023, 10:32 PM

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Tsevener moved this task from Blocked or Waiting to Doing on the iOS Release FY2023-24 (Archive) board.Mar 17 2023, 4:14 PM

@JTannerWMF @OTichonova

I have kicked off a TestFlight Experimental Build (#17) with my native editor progress. For articles with descriptions, in the action sheet prompt I have updated the options to include "full web editor" and "full native editor" options. Full web editor will demonstrate how a full page wikitext acts with our current web editor, and full native editor is my new prototype with full page wikitext. The performance with the native editor is much better for initial loading, find, and font size changes. There are some remaining bugs but I don't expect those to be difficult or affect performance. Let's discuss how we want to move forward next week.