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Fri, Feb 12
Just a quick heads up, apparently Vice found this phab ticket worthy of an article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpmyx/why-is-this-flower-on-wikipedia-suddenly-getting-90-million-hits-per-day
Wed, Feb 10
@Jdforrester-WMF, is using the templates ACN identified acceptable to you? If so, could you please implement?
Feb 1 2021
FYI, this task was mentioned at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Sortable_tables_on_mobile.
Jan 22 2021
The new logo looks really fuzzy/blurry, especially with the text. Is there any way to fix that?
Jan 18 2021
The templates AntiCompositeNumber pointed to sound like a perfectly good solution, as they update automatically but are also in widespread enough use that if anything about U.S. copyright law ever changes they will be quickly updated. I agree that it is unacceptable to have to wait weeks and go through the hassle of making a phab ticket every year just to get the date updated.
Jan 13 2021
I just accidentally created a duplicate; please merge with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271968.
Oops, it looks like another phab task for this same issue was just created; please merge with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271966.
@Aklapper, per the linked discussion, it would allow templates such as {{Empty section}} to automatically have the "add to it" link go to the editing window for the correct section rather than the entire page.
Dec 23 2020
An application of this feature came up on en-WP here.
Dec 4 2020
There's another potential application of this being discussed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#For_loops_for_a_category. I hope this eventually makes it out of the backlog.
Nov 16 2020
FYI, this task recently came up at the Village Pump, showing continuing interest.
Following up here, it looks like the "cite this page" link hasn't been moved yet; @Yair_rand, do we have a phab task for that?
Nov 3 2020
Oct 13 2020
FYI: I recently asked about this issue at the en-WP Village Pump. Feel free to ask if there are any considerations that'd need community input to get this done.
Oct 7 2020
Adding on from the perspective of an en-WP editor, I agree that GA/FA icons are very important indicators that ought to be visible to mobile readers; the prevailing sentiment of the discussion Proc linked above affirms that that's the community's view.
Sep 28 2020
This was recently proposed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Log_out_second_chance. My reading of the consensus so far from here and there is that there is more support than opposition.
Aug 16 2020
I'm glad to see this marked as high priority. I just waded around a bunch trying to figure out why I wasn't able to get the Maplink template working before finding this.
Aug 6 2020
I'll second everything TheDJ just said — streamlining things like edit notices is a task I've been working on, but it's often quite difficult to build consensus. One alternative might be to create some parameter that'd allow designation of which edit notices are essential enough to be needed for mobile and which can be desktop-only.
Jul 27 2020
FYI: This idea was recently brought up at the en-WP Village Pump, where it has received strong support so far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Clearly_display_each_Default_setting_at_Special:Preferences
Jul 15 2020
Jul 14 2020
@Xaosflux, the issue has nothing to do with edit mode or readers being logged in. When you follow the example I linked above, it takes you to an old revision and also starts you scrolled half way down the page, which means you don't initially see the old revision notice.
Jul 13 2020
Are there any additional tags that I should add to this ticket to help it show up in front of the right project for it to be actioned?
Jul 10 2020
May 27 2020
For context, I brought this up here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vn53tjmuvuwey29w
May 10 2020
Adding another use case to this, it would be useful for creating a "go to random vital article" button, which I don't know of a way to code otherwise.
May 8 2020
May 7 2020
@Certes just identified a possible reason for this bug; see this discussion.
This issue just occurred again, resulting in disruption to COVID-19 pandemic, a very high-traffic page. @Aklapper, I don't know much about tagging phabricator tasks. Since you're the only other one here, would you be able to help get this in front of whoever might be able to fix it? Until it's fixed, this is going to keep happening at COVID-19 pages, many of which are using noinclude tags to make excerpting possible.
Apr 23 2020
I think the small screen problem is one that could be solved with good enough design. For instance, the banner could collapse as you start scrolling, so that it gives the full information about the date/editor/number/etc. of the old revision at the top, but just a simple "this is an old revision" notice for when you're half way down the page.
Apr 22 2020
Any updates on this? It would be hugely useful for pages like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources#Sources, and it's come up again at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Table#Sticky_table_headers?.
Mar 31 2020
Has there been any progress on this recently?
Mar 29 2020
I just raised the priority of this a bit, per:
Mar 26 2020
One big thing I'd like to see to make the page more readable on mobile: enable the Collapse Infobox Top template to work on mobile, so that readers don't have to scroll through all the less significant maps before getting to the content.
Mar 21 2020
The inability to see edit notices on mobile is something we suspect is a major contributing factor to the messiness we're seeing at [[w:2019-20 coronavirus pandemic]]. This seems like an important issue to address — is there anything we can do to get this unstalled and prioritized?
Mar 16 2020
Mar 14 2020
Feb 2 2020
Dec 30 2019
I wish this request was given higher priority. It would really be extremely useful.
Oct 20 2019
Hi all! Thanks for creating this task. I've been editing a lot on mobile recently, and the ability to mark an edit as minor is one of the top things I've been missing.