Talk:Talk pages project/Mobile

Let's do something now for mobile editors
Pinging some of my local friends: @Dyolf77 (WMF), @Omotecho, @Miya, @Fralambert, @Jules*

The problem: If you use a smartphone, it's difficult to edit, and it's really difficult to post a comment. But there are a lot of mobile editors, and they need to join discussions, too.

The proposed solution: Let's turn on the Reply tool and the New Discussion tool at the mobile site. (The [reply] tool is already turned on for all editors on the desktop site. The New Discussion tool is only in the Beta Feature.  However, the New Discussion tool is probably better than the existing tools for mobile editors.)

The problem with the proposed solution: If you go to the mobile site (see this page on the mobile site), it starts in a collapsed, mobile-friendly form. If you want to read the page, you have to click "Read as wiki page" at the bottom of the page. To make the Reply tool work, we need to set the mobile site to "Read as wiki page" first. This change would affect all mobile editors at your Wikipedia. This means a trade-off:


 * Mobile users get the Reply tool and New Discussion tool. 😇
 * The talk pages look different on the mobile site. 🙂, 😖, 😳, 😲?

This is a big visual change. I don't want to surprise people. Where should I be asking your community about this? At a village pump? Is there a page for mobile editors at your wiki? Should we try to run a banner notice for mobile users? If this seems like a bad trade-off, I want people to tell me before the devs are ready to do this. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:02, 7 February 2022 (UTC)