User:Pelagic/sandbox/j/2019/10/04

Friday 4 October 2019

Phab items

Was searching for something in Phabricator, and along the way found these interesting.

• T179356 Minerva should not alter or hide edit icons when not operating on mobile-formatted content. (Resolved Nov 2017)
• T229440 [EPIC] Refactor icon sizing in MF/Minerva to achieve consistency.
• T208102 Improve compatibility of desktop VisualEditor with desktop Minerva skin. (Resolved May 2019, MW 1.34)
• T162503 VE in Timeless makes cactions non-responsive, trapping users forever. ("Cactions" means content actions, apparently.)
• T124168 Show Navbox templates in mobile skins. (Interesting ideas here. Started 2016, no comments since Dec 2018.)
• T174119 Fix several design features of WikiEditor and CodeEditor to match the general style, and T223155 WikiEditor uses Apex-like styling in Vector for the toolbar; change this to WikimediaUI-style. (OOUI, Apex-like, Wikimedia-UI, oh my!)

Whole-page editing in mobile view

Was going to create a Phab task, but there already are some:

• T2156 – Add section edit link for 0th section of a page/article. OMG this has been open since 2007?
• T196915 – Give mobile editor a way to edit more than just a single section at once
• T203151 – Consider adding a button to let users edit the whole page in MobileFrontend.

Adding sections in mobile view

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Other gripes

• Mobile editor: page title / tab caption doesn't change to "Editing:…" Given how small the tabs are in Safari, this is a mixed blessing. Maybe it should just be "E:" or ">".

VE as default on mobile

• T227338 – Test visual editor as the default mobile editor on select wikis
• mw:VisualEditor on mobile/VE mobile default