Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Visual editor in mobile app

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Phab issue?

If it's really not possible to use VisualEditor on mobile there probably already is a phabricator issue about this. Please link it. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:01, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Prototyperspective, yes we have tickets open with this request already: Android and iOS. HNordeen (WMF) (talk) 00:28, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

more information

Hi @Dusty292 - while on the surface this wish is clear, it would help us to understand what inspired the wish, the problems you face, etc. Could you please provide more context? Thank you JWheeler-WMF (talk) 21:30, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Dusty292, I’m Haley Nordeen, a product manager on the Mobile Apps team. We have a few tickets open with this request already that you can follow: (Android and iOS). As you can imagine, building the Visual Editor into the mobile apps would be a major technical investment, and so we have to be deliberate about whether and when to pursue that. However, we’re really interested in which elements of the visual editor could have the largest impact for Mobile App users' current pain points. Is there a specific functionality of the Visual Editor that you miss the most while editing on the Apps? This would help us identify if we can make iterative progress towards the largest pain points for editing within the app’s current editor. For example, if you miss the citation tool the most, we could work to improve the workflow for adding citations. If you miss the what-you-see-is-what-you get view, we could work to improve the wikitext previewing in the Apps. Any more feedback you have would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! HNordeen (WMF) (talk) 00:27, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Future focus area related to this

The focus areas I can imaging are VisualEditor, mobile app, readability, and mobile. Any other wishes that can chain this wish well? George Ho (talk) 01:09, 27 November 2024 (UTC)