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 20 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 Pppery (talk) 16:24, 10 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 Sailko (talk) 16:52, 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 Jeremysee (talk) 23:57, 5 December 2025

Support Una tantum (talk) 06:10, 6 December 2025

Support GiovanniPen (talk) 18:51, 10 December 2025

Support Ezra Fox (talk) 16:05, 16 December 2025

Support HyperAnd (talk) 07:02, 19 December 2025

Support Swarabakti (talk) 14:49, 23 December 2025

Support Yes, please! It would help immensely. Dream Indigo (talk) 22:30, 24 December 2025

Support Paloi Sciurala (talk) 14:11, 25 December 2025

Support Iniquity (talk) 10:24, 11 January 2026

Support Croxyz (talk) 19:31, 11 January 2026

Support Note: possible via the $wgMinervaShowCategories parameter in wiki's configuration. Sapphaline (talk) 19:06, 12 January 2026

Support Jugondial (talk) 10:15, 20 January 2026

Support Magicalus (talk) 13:25, 21 January 2026

Support make advanced mobile contributions the default for everyone Johannnes89 (talk) 12:30, 27 January 2026