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I can't read the popovers for watchlist labels explaining the feature on mobile
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Visit mobile
  • Enable advanced mode
  • Visit watchlist
  • Interact with the watchlist label notification

What happens?:

  • Screenshot 2026-02-04 at 10.22.10 AM.png (379×671 px, 66 KB)

I can't read it.

What should have happened instead?:
This popover should be full screen and not float the image to be readable. This should adapt to a mobile screen

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

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It looks like there's a plan to improve popovers on mobile: T386144: Popover: create mobile-version in Codex

Perhaps we can just exclude the onboarding for mobile for now. Would that be okay? The 'manage labels' tab will still be there, for the inquisitive, and it has a help link.

Change #1237204 had a related patch set uploaded (by Samwilson; author: Samwilson):

[mediawiki/core@master] Special:Watchlist: Disable watchlist onboarding for mobile

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1237204

I've been experimenting with making the popover full width as it is in the designs, and it's not simple to make it reliable.

But how about we not show the image? That makes it much more readable I think, e.g.:

image.png (388×380 px, 36 KB)

Change #1237204 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Special:Watchlist: Improve watchlist onboarding for mobile

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1237204

dom_walden subscribed.

I see the popup design is responsive to width of viewport, switching over at about 640px.

I notice that in the narrow design the "Next" and "Previous" buttons are the other way around. I don't know if this is deliberate.

Special:Watchlist in Portrait mode:

Screen Shot 2026-02-23 at 15.10.00.png (1,440×3,202 px, 457 KB)

Landscape mode:

Screen Shot 2026-02-23 at 15.10.05.png (3,202×1,440 px, 318 KB)

The popup can extend beyond the viewport, if you scroll the "Edit watchlist" tab to the left. Perhaps there is not a better alternative.

bs_android_chrome_15.jpg (351×709 px, 45 KB)

Test environment: https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org MediaWiki 1.46.0-alpha (7462adb) 14:11, 23 February 2026.