Background
The mobile skin Minerva causes certain contribution workflows to be unavailable. The skin hides certain pages as they are not optimized for mobile devices and increased the complexity of the interface. Their absence prevents contributors from being able to edit and moderate from the mobile web. The Readers Web team has listened to requests from communities and has an increased focus on contribution workflows for the upcoming year. The team is working on exposing currently unavailable pages and building expanded navigation to provide better editing functionality on the mobile web. Our plan is to build this as an opt-in feature which editors can enable. We believe this will decrease the necessity of switching between the desktop and mobile sites while on a mobile device and provide a better mobile editing experience.
Expanding the contribution workflows on the existing Minerva skin will provide a quick way to increase the amount of productive mobile contributions. It will also allow the full breadth of tools in a short time-span, giving us more time to do thorough research and design for the most crucial workflows.
We have captured this goal in output 3.1 from the 2018-2019 Annual Plan: Contribution tools on mobile web via an existing MediaWiki skin.
Project page
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
Annual plan goals
Notes
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