User:CKoerner (WMF)/Page issues English Wikipedia note

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for enwiki[edit]

An update on templates on mobile web[edit]

Hello,

A few months ago we mentioned a change that was coming to how certain templates appear on mobile web. I just wanted to drop a note that this change is now in effect here on English Wikipedia. This is the result of a request from 2016 to better display templates on mobile. As you may be aware, since early 2018 mobile traffic counts for the majority of traffic on English Wikipedia (and more than twice as many unique devices access the mobile site over the desktop site), so making templates present on mobile is important.

We've deployed this update to all other wikis and ran A/B tests to measure the impact (Summary: Users interact with the new treatment more frequently than the old. They interact with higher-severity issues more than than lower-severity issues. The new design does not cause more frequent edits).

For template editors, we have some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly and further documentation on our work so far.

If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile, please leave a note on the project talk page or file a task in Phabricator and we can help.

Yours, ~ ~ ~ ~

for wikivoyage[edit]

An update on templates on mobile web[edit]

Hello,

A few months ago we mentioned a change that was coming to how certain templates appear on mobile web. I just wanted to drop a note that this change is now in effect here on English Wikivoyage. As you may be aware, [of January mobile traffic counts for about a third of traffic on English Wikivoyage] (and we're approaching twice as many unique devices using the mobile site over the desktop site), so making templates present on mobile is important.

We've deployed this update to all other wikis and we ran A/B tests on Wikipedia to measure the impact (Summary: Users interact with the new treatment more frequently than the old. They interact with higher-severity issues more than than lower-severity issues. The new design does not cause more frequent edits).

We have noticed that these templates have a few styling inconsistencies here on English Wikivoyage and would like to ask for your help. For template editors, we have some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly and further documentation on our work so far.

If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile, please leave a note on the project talk page or file a task in Phabricator and we can help.

Yours, ~ ~ ~ ~