Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Archive/Allow mobile editors to edit entire pages (optional)

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Allow mobile editors to edit entire pages (optional)

Withdrawn by proposer (too many proposals)

  • Problem: Currently if you edit in the mobile browser (like myself) you will run into numerous restrictions on editing that make it a more tedious task, one of these editing restrictions is the inability to edit full articles, imagine if you need to move one paragraph from one part of the article to another, the scenario goes like this: A mobile user wants to move something into a more relevant section of the article, but because of technical restrictions they have to blank one part first or move it in an impractical manner before being able to add it properly, they explain that they only need 6 (six) minutes to finish “the next” edit or maybe one (1), they then try to “finish” the second edit and click on “save 💾” but find an error message, a rollbacker has already reverted claiming it as vandalism and left a pesky template accusing the mobile 📱 editor of vandalising a page they’re a major contributor to. This should be preventable.
  • Who would benefit: Mobile-users 👥.
  • Proposed solution: Allow an option when one clicks on “the top pencil ✏” that says “edit section or edit whole article”, this way (mobile-)users can choose between either simply editing the intro exclusively or editing the entire page without having to go to “desktop” mode.
  • More comments: Otherwise allow for “intermediate edits”, seriously when you’re on mobile “assume bad faith” (see w:en:WP:BADFAITH) is the only way rollbackers can communicate with you, I wouldn't be surprised if almost every user that hated editing did so because they’re on a mobile device, and their intermediate edits were seen as “vandalism”.
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Discussion[edit]

  • Strongly endorse. Main reason I don't edit on mobile. I often myself in the same position as the proposer, with the added commentary that "ref names" are unhelpful in the mobile view, as it's not possible to see where else the reference is used in the article without having access to the full page. LocalNet (talk) 22:58, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]