Show categories on mobile (Community Wishlist/W225)
Long-term opportunity
Description
It would be helpful for reader to see categories on mobile versions of Wikipedia and other wiki-projects. I may open category page if I need and choose other article from interesting category.
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Unassigned
Type of wish
I'm not sure or I don't know
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Voting
This wish currently has 9 supporters. Voting for this wish is open until it is completed.
Supporters of this wish
Support Why is the Wikimedia Foundation hiding them in the first place? Categories are very useful to many and many editors spend huge amounts of time to organize things in countless categories just so the WMF hides them away. This is not a "Long-term opportunity" – please simply undo the hiding of the Wikipedia and Commons categories and show the plain hyperlinks at the bottom. They should never have been hidden. On Commons, undoing WMF's hiding of categories is the top #1 wish of the Technical survey. It would be a small change, would have a big impact, and is overdue. Prototyperspective (talk) 16:19, 7 October 2025
Support This is particularly important for Commons, because categories there are far more important than in Wikipedia or other sister projects. Jmabel (talk) 06:02, 5 December 2025
Support ReneeWrites (talk) 08:21, 5 December 2025
Support Categories are extremely important on Commons. Mobile users shouldn't be relegated to an incomplete interface. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:17, 5 December 2025
Support Una tantum (talk) 06:10, 6 December 2025
Support GiovanniPen (talk) 18:51, 10 December 2025