Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Mobile and apps/Show categories in the Wikipedia app
Show categories in the Wikipedia app
- Problem: Wikipedia editors spend a significant amount of time categorizing pages so that relevant pages can be quickly found. Not having access to these categories puts mobile app users at a significant disadvantage over desktop users. As more users in the developing world come online, they are missing a critical part of articles, especially if they start editing the encyclopedia. In addition, people are switching to mobile at a rapid pace, so feature parity with desktop sites are critical.
- Who would benefit: Mobile app users (both readers and editors)
- Proposed solution: Add a list of categories that article is in at the bottom of the article as a list. Also, create a navigation link to access these categories along with the article's sections.
- More comments: This was previously proposed by myself as part of the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey where it received 55 votes, placing it as the 30th highest voted item. You can find it at Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Mobile and apps/Categories shown in the app.
- Phabricator tickets: task T73966, task T153980
- Proposer: Daylen (talk) 04:54, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
Discussion
- Endorse. Looks like almost everyone agrees to this idea. But do the Wikipedia mobile app technical team require more time to implement this? Chongkian (talk) 03:59, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
- Endorse. I would like to have categories shown in my mobile since when I bought it. I think categories are very useful for editors and readers, too. --Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 18:35, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
- Strongly support. This also applies to navigation templates, which showcase the main articles about a specific topic. --Joalbertine (talk) 20:07, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
- Endorse, and add them to the mobile website as well. Feminist (talk) 03:55, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
- I'm doubtful that readers (non-editing readers) spend much time looking in categories. I don't think that anyone has ever verified that readers notice the categories or use them. It might be interesting to see if we could get page view data split (logged-in vs logged-out) to determine whether the category system is worthwhile at all (to people who aren't editors like us, of course; I use it for editing purposes). WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:23, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
Voting
- Support Cohaf (talk) 19:28, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Saederup92 (talk) 19:30, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Tom Ja (talk) 20:15, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support DonBarredora (talk) 23:57, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support The Grid (talk) 01:58, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support LimSoo-jung (talk) 03:01, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support ParadiseDesertOasis8888 (talk) 06:36, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 09:24, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Nimrodbr (talk) 10:46, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 10:49, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Libcub (talk) 10:58, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:04, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Carlodell (talk) 14:08, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support It's so troublesome to switch into desktop view just to find categories. So great to have it in mobile version. CyberTroopers (talk) 14:19, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Zoranzoki21 (talk) 14:40, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Rita2008 (talk) 14:50, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Micru (talk) 16:10, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Yilku1 (talk) 17:11, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support JogiAsad (talk) 18:11, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support AllyD (talk) 18:33, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Nk (talk) 20:22, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support JAn Dudík (talk) 20:25, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support —Thanks for the fish! talk•contribs 20:34, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Strongest possible support Redactyll (talk) 15:35, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support –Ammarpad (talk) 21:46, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Nickw25 (talk) 23:26, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Marcelo9987 (talk) 00:02, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Darwinek (talk) 01:27, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support YukaSylvie (talk) 04:39, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support AHeneen (talk) 06:02, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support HLHJ (talk) 06:24, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support NMaia (talk) 10:43, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Vriullop (talk) 11:02, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Hydriz (talk) 12:51, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Jon Harald Søby (talk) 12:55, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support ToothpasteLake (talk) 14:27, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Pepe piton (talk) 17:54, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Joalbertine (talk) 18:00, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support – Meiræ 22:25, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support -- Whats new?(talk) 22:35, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support I support this. The mobile apps should match functionality of the desktop version. Simonjon (talk) 09:58, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Trizek from FR 10:52, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:36, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Mr. Fulano! Talk 21:20, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support DEGA8 (talk) 03:03, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Arnd (talk) 07:08, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Vulphere 12:32, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Lord van Tasm (talk) 13:44, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support 翼のない堕天使(faw) (talk) 13:50, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support β16 - (talk) 15:32, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 19:09, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support I often add or change categories, and I really miss this on the app! Hispalois (talk) 22:37, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 22:43, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 01:44, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Elfi (talk) 07:14, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Laboramus (talk) 07:34, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Berdea (talk) 10:45, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support BugWarp (talk) 13:00, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support--►Neriman2003 talk 18:28, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
- Oppose mobilefrontend seems to add some redundant work here ... mobile users can use timeless skin, or an improved mobilefriendly version of the vector/monobook skins. --Gryllida 08:14, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Sahaquiel9102 (talk) 17:25, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Matěj Suchánek (talk) 09:23, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Hmxhmx 10:33, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support It's incredible that mobile users can't see categories! Gce (talk) 15:05, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Chepry (talk) 16:42, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Kaartic correct me, if i'm wrong 17:14, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Soumendrak (talk) 09:04, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Ethno & 4D (talk) 09:36, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Good suggestion. I choose to use computer mode to view Wikipedia mostly because of this. Mariogoods (talk) 13:25, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support --XoMEoX (talk) 18:08, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Ranjithsiji (talk) 23:01, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support — AfroThundr (u · t · c) 02:24, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Remux - Nunca Olvidaré, que me enamoré de la más hermosa flor. Ĉu mi povas helpi vin iel? 00:30, 5 November 2015 (UTC) 03:06, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support L-native (talk) 09:50, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Zopp (talk) 11:21, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Hello903hello (talk) 12:51, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support HouseGecko (talk) 13:25, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Dreamy Jazz (talk) 13:25, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Add them to the mobile web too! Ckoerner (talk) 16:00, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Sudastelaro (talk) 17:45, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support stjn[ru] 18:27, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support --KuboF Hromoslav (talk) 19:08, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Linguistical (talk) 13:53, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Kirk Discussion 17:33, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Nemo 22:35, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support E1d4R (talk) 06:48, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Okki (talk) 18:22, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support - tucoxn\talk 21:30, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Netanel488 (talk) 23:12, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Please add a feature allowing to see categories in mobile in some way (not necessarily as visible as in desktop) — NickK (talk) 16:43, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support It's high time for that! Ldorfman (talk) 20:22, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Olea (talk) 21:20, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Movses (talk) 14:20, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Tacsipacsi (talk) 17:34, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support Bencemac (talk) 17:52, 30 November 2018 (UTC)