"Edit here" stopped jumping to the selected text section on android
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	Gokudera_ElPsyCongroo
	Oct 14 2025, 5:57 AM

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Steps to replicate the issue:

Open Wikipedia's android mobile app or Beta
Select text from an article
Click "edit here" in context menu (I use Wikipedia in French which uses the term "modifier ici" so the English term could differ a bit

What happens?:
The edition interface correctly opens but the "cursor"/view is placed at the start of the section that contains the text.

What should have happened instead?:
Instead, the cursor should be placed at the beginning of the selected text's location in the section. It was the behavior of a previous version of Wikipedia's mobile app (probably is more than a year old), so maybe the change was intentional and not a bug, though I find it less practical than before.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
Version 2.7.50550-beta-2025-09-22

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Mentioned In: T407562: "Edit here" jumps to the first occurence of selected text, instead of the exact text, on android
Mentioned Here: T407562: "Edit here" jumps to the first occurence of selected text, instead of the exact text, on android

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Gokudera_ElPsyCongroo created this task.Oct 14 2025, 5:57 AM

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Dbrant moved this task from Needs Triage to Android Release - FY2025-26 on the Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog board.Oct 14 2025, 4:06 PM

Dbrant edited projects, added Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog (Android Release - FY2025-26); removed Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog.

Dbrant moved this task from Incoming tasks from backlog to Needs Engineering Sync (P2) on the Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog (Android Release - FY2025-26) board.Oct 14 2025, 4:12 PM

dbrant opened https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia/pull/5997

Dbrant claimed this task.Oct 14 2025, 6:19 PM

Dbrant triaged this task as Medium priority.

cooltey closed https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia/pull/5997

Dbrant moved this task from Needs Engineering Sync (P2) to Merged and Waiting on the Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog (Android Release - FY2025-26) board.Oct 14 2025, 7:01 PM

Dbrant moved this task from Merged and Waiting to QA signoff on the Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog (Android Release - FY2025-26) board.Oct 14 2025, 9:55 PM

Appears to be fixed on 2.7.50551-beta-2025-10-14

Tested on Pixel 6 on Android 16 and OnePlus 8 on Android 13. Tested edit here on multiple languages.

The "jump to" behavior is fixed (thanks!) but seems that if the section contains multiple occurrences of the highlighted word, taping on "edit here" jumps to the first occurence instead of the exact selected word.

The same happens for words that contain a part of another. For example, go to the article "Multicellular organism", section "Evolutionary history", and select the word "multicellular", then tap "edit here": the word "multicellularity" (which appears before multicellular in the text) will be the one highlighted and jumped to in the edition interface, instead of multicellular.

Hi @Gokudera_ElPsyCongroo would you mind making a separate task for this issue with a screenshot or video?

In T407178#11282830, @JTannerWMF wrote:

Hi @Gokudera_ElPsyCongroo would you mind making a separate task for this issue with a screenshot or video?

Hi, created a separate task here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T407562 (added you as subscriber, my apologies if that was a bothersome ping)

Dbrant closed this task as Resolved.Oct 17 2025, 3:40 PM

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