Shameless plug for
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Allow_styling_in_templates

Right now hiding is mobile's only option. Please help push this
longstanding RFC through so we can start perfecting badly formatted
interfaces for mobile rather than hiding.


On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote:

> There are two separate issues here.
>
> The first is that the {{main}} template not appearing in articles. This is
> T91621 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91621>. I am unable to
> reproduce this, and have closed it as invalid.
>
> The second is the {{listen}} template not being displayed in the Android
> app. I have created T91621 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91621> to
> track this. This is simply a bug. We will investigate.
>
> Dan
>
> On 31 March 2015 at 10:48, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi mobile teams,
>>
>> Awhile ago I pointed out (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91621) that
>> the important template in content pages that directs readers from article
>> subsections to "main articles" is missing from mobile web pages. I have
>> since found other templates with relevant reader-oriented content to be
>> missing from mobile web. With the latest Android app release this problem
>> appears to be happing at greater scale in mobile apps now as well. For
>> example the audio demonstration of jazz that I placed at the top of the
>> "Jazz" article on English Wikipedia is missing from Android and from mobile
>> web. Please, please __do not__ use technical means to delete content or
>> templates from mobile views when they are intended for our readers on all
>> platforms and were placed in articles through the efforts of volunteers,
>> especially not without a community discussion first. Formatting tweaks are
>> negotiable, but this kind of content elimination makes me upset. I feel
>> that it degrades Wikipedia's value to readers,  and as a person who adds
>> audio and other templates to articles I find it discouraging to have my
>> efforts removed from the view of so many Wikipedia readers.
>>
>> Thank you for your work to make Wikipedia reading be a good experience on
>> mobile.
>>
>> Pine
>>
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