Fixed footers on diff and other page obscure site footer
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	Nnemo
	Apr 22 2015, 1:28 PM

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I am on Wikipedia with Safari on iOS 7 on an iPad.
I get the mobile diff page: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spécial:MobileDiff/56784050
This page is incomplete. It does not show any of the two versions of the article. It does not give any link to view them.
Usually, this is not a problem, because the mobile page has a Desktop link at the end, which gives the full page.
But, here, the link Desktop is missing.

Please place in the mobile diff page the link Desktop to the full diff page.

Thank you.

Nnemo

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Nnemo created this task.Apr 22 2015, 1:28 PM

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• Tbayer edited projects, added Web-Team-Backlog, MobileFrontend; removed Mobile, MediaWiki-General.Jun 13 2015, 12:12 AM

So I think what this is requesting is a desktop link in the mobile diff page. This is not a bug. From what I remember, a fixed footer was deemed more important for editors since the majority of users of this page would be doing patrolling and we optimised for those users rather than users that want to switch to desktop/mobile.

The footer is there just obscured.

A couple of solutions:

Some sites put the desktop link in the left menu to solve this issue.
We could make the fixed footer collapsible

Maybe the design team would like to reconsider the design so the desktop link is available on all pages even those with a fixed footer. (ping @KHammerstein).

Jdlrobson renamed this task from The mobile diff page is incomplete and misses the Desktop link to the full page to Fixed footers on diff and other page obscure site footer.Jun 15 2015, 5:23 PM

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@Jdlrobson Yes I agree the desktop link should be available on all pages even those with a fixed footer.
I'm not sure of the original design decisions. I think the simplest way is to just show the normal site footer below the diff content. The fixed footer can remain the same.

A fixed footer is fixed to the bottom of the page at all times... So they can't remain the same :)

Either the diff footer doesn't become fixed or it becomes collapsible... I'm not sure if there are other options..

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Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to Discussing on the MobileFrontend board.Aug 4 2015, 6:36 PM

@KHammerstein any Design suggestions?

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• Nirzar removed • KHammerstein as the assignee of this task.Oct 3 2016, 5:10 PM

The footer is no longer obscured.

MBinder_WMF moved this task from Design to 2016-17 Q4 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Mar 6 2018, 6:57 PM

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