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In the mobile web interface, by default administrators cannot delete or protect a page via any links present on the page. All users cannot access the Move page button or other informational/utility links. By turning on Advanced Mobile Contributions (AMC), users can access a drop-down ‘overflow’ menu which includes Delete and Protect buttons for administrators, among other links such as 'Move' and 'Wikidata Item' for all editors. We want to explore making accessing these tools more seamless for editors and administrators. **Options** # We could make this menu visible to administrators by default, without needing to turn on AMC, to provide access to admin tools. As very active editors, administrators are unlikely to be confused by the new menu. This may be more technically complex than simply making the menu visible to all editors. # We could instead make it visible to all logged-in users (delete and protect would not be visible to non-admins) without AMC. This risks confusing newer editors with unexpected links, but may be net-positive and is likely to be technically simpler. **Questions** Before making a decision on this task we want to learn more about the overflow menu and the technical complexity of the options above. # What steps would be required to make the overflow menu visible to administrators by default? # What steps would be required to make the overflow menu visible to all users by default? - To make it visible to all users, you can use the `wgMinervaOverflowInPageActions` variable and set `base` to true as explained [[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue/+/4519cd68f6959e191677159fdc77e2c52d3eb461/README.md#wgminervaoverflowinpageactions | here ]]. This is set in the [[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue/+/refs/heads/master/skin.json#75 | skin.json file ]]. # Is one of these options substantially more complex, technically, to implement?

In the mobile web interface, by default administrators cannot delete or protect a page via any links present on the page. All users cannot access the Move page button or other informational/utility links. By turning on Advanced Mobile Contributions (AMC), users can access a drop-down ‘overflow’ menu which includes Delete and Protect buttons for administrators, among other links such as 'Move' and 'Wikidata Item' for all editors. We want to explore making accessing these tools more seamless for editors and administrators. **Options** # We could make this menu visible to administrators by default, without needing to turn on AMC, to provide access to admin tools. As very active editors, administrators are unlikely to be confused by the new menu. This may be more technically complex than simply making the menu visible to all editors. # We could instead make it visible to all logged-in users (delete and protect would not be visible to non-admins) without AMC. This risks confusing newer editors with unexpected links, but may be net-positive and is likely to be technically simpler. **Questions** Before making a decision on this task we want to learn more about the overflow menu and the technical complexity of the options above. # What steps would be required to make the overflow menu visible to administrators by default? - We would probably have to change how to set `TOOLBAR_SUBMENU` ([[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue/+/refs/heads/master/includes/Hooks.php#225 | here ]]) to check if a user is an administrator. This doesn't seem to be very straightforward. # What steps would be required to make the overflow menu visible to all users by default? - To make it visible to all users, you can use the `wgMinervaOverflowInPageActions` variable and set `base` to true as explained [[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue/+/4519cd68f6959e191677159fdc77e2c52d3eb461/README.md#wgminervaoverflowinpageactions | here ]]. This is set in the [[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue/+/refs/heads/master/skin.json#75 | skin.json file ]]. # Is one of these options substantially more complex, technically, to implement? - Probably option 2 is less complex, since it's only changing one key/value pair in the skin.json file of MinervaNeue.

In the mobile web interface, by default administrators cannot delete or protect a page via any links present on the page. All users cannot access the Move page button or other informational/utility links. By turning on Advanced Mobile Contributions (AMC), users can access a drop-down ‘overflow’ menu which includes Delete and Protect buttons for administrators, among other links such as 'Move' and 'Wikidata Item' for all editors. We want to explore making accessing these tools more seamless for editors and administrators. **Options** # We could make this menu visible to administrators by default, without needing to turn on AMC, to provide access to admin tools. As very active editors, administrators are unlikely to be confused by the new menu. This may be more technically complex than simply making the menu visible to all editors. # We could instead make it visible to all logged-in users (delete and protect would not be visible to non-admins) without AMC. This risks confusing newer editors with unexpected links, but may be net-positive and is likely to be technically simpler. **Questions** Before making a decision on this task we want to learn more about the overflow menu and the technical complexity of the options above. # What steps would be required to make the overflow menu visible to administrators by default? - We would probably have to change how to set `TOOLBAR_SUBMENU` ([[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue/+/refs/heads/master/includes/Hooks.php#225 | here ]]) to check if a user is an administrator. This doesn't seem to be very straightforward. # What steps would be required to make the overflow menu visible to all users by default? - To make it visible to all users, you can use the `wgMinervaOverflowInPageActions` variable and set `base` to true as explained [[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue/+/4519cd68f6959e191677159fdc77e2c52d3eb461/README.md#wgminervaoverflowinpageactions | here ]]. This is set in the [[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue/+/refs/heads/master/skin.json#75 | skin.json file ]]. # Is one of these options substantially more complex, technically, to implement? - Probably option 2 is less complex, since it's only changing one key/value pair in the skin.json file of MinervaNeue.