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Design of the section 0 edit icon (often the sole initially visible one) looks like it applies to entire article, and there's no article button
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On every page there is an icon of a pencil.

It is linked to #editor/0.

I.e. there is no way to edit any other section than section 0.

Maybe it was assumed that /0 meant the whole page.

Anyway one must manually change the url to /1, /2 etc.

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 3:19 AM
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bingle-admin wrote:

Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/1909

jgonera wrote:

Are there no pencil icons in sections when you unfold them? If no, can you provide a URL?

Ah... I get it!
To edit section | use pencil at
0 | top left
1 | side right
2 | side right
3 | side right
4 | side right

Who would have ever guessed!

One assumes instead:

To edit section | use pencil at
entire article | top left
0 | side right
1 | side right
2 | side right
3 | side right
4 | side right

The star watchlist icon applies to the entire article, so one assumes the same with the edit icon appearing in the same row. I didn't test the upload icon.

Maybe if there is nowhere else to put it, have that row be:
Pencil (edit whole article), upload, watch, Pencil+0 (edit section 0)

This is currently by design to make editing easier on a mobile screen by optimising for section editing.

We are currently exploring full page edits in our work on VisualEditor. This may or may not get addressed as part of that.

In the case of VE this does mean edit the entire page.
On tablets/desktops we may make this mean the entire page.

cc'ing Jared in case he can comment on the long term strategy.

This is being handled as part of the Fixed Header / Winter Beta feature https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter

Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from sole initially visible (section 0) edit icon looks like it applies to entire article to Design of the section 0 edit icon (often the sole initially visible one) looks like it applies to entire article, and there's no article button.Jul 12 2016, 3:27 PM
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@Jdlrobson @Niedzielski, thoughts:

It seems like there are possibly two confusing things going on here:

1) Articles with empty lead sections
-I find the fact that this page/article doesn't have a lead section to be slightly confusing. It took me a bit to understand how that was happening in the first place. Maybe this is just because I'm inexperienced with Wikis.
-I wonder how common this situation is where the lead section is totally blank (I took a look around at some talk pages and other non-article namespace pages...it seems like often even when there is no text in the lead section there is still some stuff, e.g. a template, in there)
-I wonder if people in this situation are intending to have empty lead sections, or if they don't realize that starting the article/page with a heading causes this slightly awkward situation
-Do we have an opinion on whether or not it's "okay" to start an article/page with a heading? I suppose we could discourage it, or at least alert people so that there's a bit more awareness of what's going on here

2) The fact that on mobile you can only edit one section at a time
-agreed it's confusing that the edit pen for the lead section is located on top of the article, but then again the lead section doesn't have a heading like the other sections do so it'd be impossible to match the pattern used in subsequent sections
-I wonder if this one section at a time editing is confusing to people in general, or only when they find themselves editing an empty lead section

That being said, I wonder if there's something relatively cheap we can do with the empty state here? e.g.

empty-top-section-edit.jpg (836×662 px, 74 KB)