VisualEditor on mobile/Section editing

Section Editing
In Fall of 2018, the Editing Team conducted research to understand an Editor's experience using Visual Editor. The results of our research revealed several disruptive workflows and unclear features that potentially impede a user's ability to focus while editing and/or publishing an article. As a result, our team developed interventions to improve Visual Editor to support a user's ability to focus via reducing confusion during the editing process.

After soliciting community feedback on our interventions, and conducting a usability test, we delved further into the challenge of editors identifying their desired edit in Read Mode on mobile devices and then having to scroll around the page to find the tool to enter Edit Mode. It is our belief that to mitigate a potential lack of focus caused by scrolling in search of the edit button, users should automatically be guided to the edit command function by our tool once they've identified the contribution they wish to make. This approach is a feature referred to as Section Editing. Section Editing will enable users to modify an article in any section by tapping a contextual edit button. Upon tapping a contextual button, users will then be transported from Read Mode to Edit mode in the section of the article they desire to modify, thus replacing the action of scrolling for the edit command and potentially losing focus of the actual desired edit a user is planning to make.

Instructions
You will be using the prototype on your phone and then going to the discussion page to provide your feedback.


 * 1) Please go to the prototype on a mobile device: http://visualeditor-prototype.wmflabs.org/wiki/Sections
 * 2) Log in to the editor with the user name   and password
 * 3) Tap on the pencil icon next to the sub-heading titled "Reception" (*)
 * 4) Add a sentence or edit to the first paragraph
 * 5) Tap the check button
 * 6) Tap "Save..."
 * 7) Fill in your feedback on this discussion page.

(*) If you are in Wikitext mode, you will need to change to Visual Editor mode by tapping on the pencil icon in the toolbar and tapping on "Visual Editing" (not Source Editing).

⚠ Keep in mind that since this is a prototype there might be some bugs or quirks that you'll come across and many links will be disabled. If you think that you've encountered a bug, please describe that in your feedback.

Feedback
We are interested in your thoughts on the prototype. Is this a better experience? Was it easier for you to stay focused on where you were within your edit? Was this expected behavior? Any and all comments are appreciated! Feedback will be summarized on the main project page.

Section Editing Project Updates
On this page we will share our progress on the development of this feature.

2019-01-11

 * Added instructions for first section editing prototype. This works on mobile and desktop. Please follow the instructions and then add your feedback.