Hello all,
For the last few months, the Wikidata team has been working on improving
the termbox interface on mobile. The termbox is this area on Items where
you can read or edit labels, descriptions and aliases in various languages.
Our goal is to provide a nicer experience while reading and editing this
area from the mobile web pages.
Thanks to the combined work of various teams at WMDE and WMF, to our UX
researchers and the editors who gave feedback on the prototypes, the first
version of the feature is now deployed on
wikidata.org.
*What is included in this new termbox interface?*
- You can browse labels, descriptions and aliases on a new and more
mobile-friendly interface, for all existing languages
- You can edit existing labels, descriptions and aliases directly from
the interface of the Item
- The behaviour of the mobile termbox is very similar to the current
termbox on desktop: preferred languages are sorted based on the Universal
Language Selector extension, that is taking information from your Babel
userbox (if you’re logged in)
- The edits made through the interface will have the “mobile edit” tag,
so you can track them and watch out for vandalism
*What is not included yet, but may be in the future?*
- A dedicated termbox-mobile tag in the edit summary, to track edits
more precisely
- Adding labels, descriptions or aliases in languages that don’t contain
anything for now (we’re working on it, in the meantime, you can do it with
Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases)
- Various interface enhancements (floating buttons, colors, icons, text
labels)
*What was not included in the scope of this project*
- Ability to edit something else than the Item termbox (eg. statements,
Lexemes, other entity types)
- Any change on the desktop interface
*How can you test it and give feedback?*
The feature is now live on
wikidata.org, which means you can access any
Item from a mobile device and check it out. You can also see it from
desktop by clicking on the "mobile view" link at the very bottom of a page,
or adding &mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile at the end of the URL. *Example:
Q666
<https://m.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q666&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile>*
Please note that some pages are cached - if you don’t see the new termbox
appearing on an Item, it will appear next time that someone edits this
item.
If you have any suggestions or would like to share feedback with us, you
can write on the talk page of the termbox project
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Development/Termbox>.
If you encounter any bug or serious technical issues, you can also create a
task on Phabricator, using the tag Wikidata-Termbox
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/3620>.
Cheers,
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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
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