Show categories on mobile (Community Wishlist/W225)

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.

Assigned focus area

Unassigned

Type of wish

I'm not sure or I don't know

Tags

Categories, Mobile web, Multimedia and Commons

Affected users

Readers

Phabricator tasks

T24660

Other details

Created: 15:16, 6 August 2024
Last updated: 11:53, 25 December 2025
Author: Plogeo (talk)

Voting

This wish currently has 40 supporters. Voting for this wish is open until it is completed.

Supporters of this wish

Support Plogeo (talk) 2024-08-06T15:16:00

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) 2025-10-07T16:19:04

Support Pppery (talk) 2025-10-10T16:24:20

Support This is particularly important for Commons, because categories there are far more important than in Wikipedia or other sister projects. Jmabel (talk) 2025-12-05T06:02:42

Support ReneeWrites (talk) 2025-12-05T08:21:05

Support Sailko (talk) 2025-12-05T16:52:56

Support Categories are extremely important on Commons. Mobile users shouldn't be relegated to an incomplete interface. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 2025-12-05T20:17:27

Support Jeremysee (talk) 2025-12-05T23:57:53

Support Una tantum (talk) 2025-12-06T06:10:39

Support GiovanniPen (talk) 2025-12-10T18:51:24

Support Ezra Fox (talk) 2025-12-16T16:05:40

Support HyperAnd (talk) 2025-12-19T07:02:21

Support Swarabakti (talk) 2025-12-23T14:49:08

Support Yes, please! It would help immensely. Dream Indigo (talk) 2025-12-24T22:30:25

Support Paloi Sciurala (talk) 2025-12-25T14:11:50

Support Iniquity (talk) 2026-01-11T10:24:42

Support Croxyz (talk) 2026-01-11T19:31:18

Support Note: possible via the $wgMinervaShowCategories parameter in wiki's configuration. Sapphaline (talk) 2026-01-12T19:06:46

Support Jugondial (talk) 2026-01-20T10:15:17

Support Magicalus (talk) 2026-01-21T13:25:08

Support make advanced mobile contributions the default for everyone Johannnes89 (talk) 2026-01-27T12:30:57

Support This needs to be brought back. So hard to see related categories otherwise. Jugo Yokomizo (talk) 2026-02-12T22:23:16

Support Wyslijp16 (talk) 2026-02-15T22:08:39

Support Red Sneak (talk) 2026-02-18T13:34:07

Support The Grid (talk) 2026-03-30T19:47:36

Support ChaoticV (talk) 2026-03-31T09:51:30

Support VastV0idInSpace0 (talk) 2026-03-31T20:37:57

Support FaviFake (talk) 2026-04-15T13:48:15

Support Although this seems like a politics problem not a technical problem Bawolff (talk) 2026-04-19T06:15:02

Support AnarchistiCookie (talk) 2026-04-20T10:53:05

Support 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 2026-05-21T01:26:40

Support XtexChooser (talk) 2026-05-23T23:39:48

Support Like tears in rain (talk) 2026-06-05T12:13:33

Support Noha307 (talk) 2026-06-07T20:14:19

Support Shushugah (talk) 2026-06-16T20:32:23

Support Steenth (talk) 2026-06-27T13:09:53

Support SnorlaxMonster (talk) 2026-06-27T16:26:07

Support Edward (talk) 2026-06-28T22:57:58

Support MatthewHoobin (talk) 2026-06-30T14:16:08

Support Racer J77 (talk) 2026-07-10T09:51:47