Hi everyone,
We’re excited to announce that starting today, mobile statement editing is available as a beta feature on Wikidata.
Following your feedback from our earlier prototypes, we’re now rolling out live editing for String and Wikibase Entity ID datatypes directly in the mobile view. This marks a big step toward making contributing to Wikidata easier and more accessible for editors using mobile devices.
How you can help us refine
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Enable the Beta feature: Go to your Preferences --> Beta features --> check "Edit Wikidata Items on mobile devices" and save. -
Try mobile editing: Visit the Wikidata Item Wikidata Sandbox (Q4115189) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4115189 on your mobile device (or use mobile view on your desktop) -
Test the edits: Try editing statements with the supported String and Wikibase Entity ID datatypes -
Share your feedback: Tell us what works, what doesn’t, and what you’d like to see next on the project discussion page: Mobile editing of statements https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Usability_and_usefulness/Item_editing_experience/Mobile_editing_of_statements
Please note: This initial release supports only String and Entity ID datatypes. Support for additional datatypes will follow in upcoming releases.
If you’re interested in participating in deeper testing or user interviews with our UX team, sign up here https://greatquestion.co/wikimediadeutschland/bo2e7e2a/apply to join our mobile editing testing group.
Thanks a lot for your help.
A quick follow-up to our discussion on mobile editing: to help our UX team design a better experience for all scripts, we are particularly looking to connect with more users of right-to-left (RTL) languages, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, or Urdu.
If you edit in any RTL language and would be interested in participating in deeper testing or user interviews with our UX team, please sign up here to join our mobile editing testing group: https://greatquestion.co/wikimediadeutschland/bo2e7e2a/direct
Thanks a lot in advance.
-Mohammed
On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 7:14 PM Mohammed Abdulai < mohammed.abdulai@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hi everyone,
We’re excited to announce that starting today, mobile statement editing is available as a beta feature on Wikidata.
Following your feedback from our earlier prototypes, we’re now rolling out live editing for String and Wikibase Entity ID datatypes directly in the mobile view. This marks a big step toward making contributing to Wikidata easier and more accessible for editors using mobile devices.
How you can help us refine
Enable the Beta feature: Go to your Preferences --> Beta features --> check "Edit Wikidata Items on mobile devices" and save.
Try mobile editing: Visit the Wikidata Item Wikidata Sandbox (Q4115189) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4115189 on your mobile device (or use mobile view on your desktop)
Test the edits: Try editing statements with the supported String and Wikibase Entity ID datatypes
Share your feedback: Tell us what works, what doesn’t, and what you’d like to see next on the project discussion page: Mobile editing of statements https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Usability_and_usefulness/Item_editing_experience/Mobile_editing_of_statements
Please note: This initial release supports only String and Entity ID datatypes. Support for additional datatypes will follow in upcoming releases.
If you’re interested in participating in deeper testing or user interviews with our UX team, sign up here https://greatquestion.co/wikimediadeutschland/bo2e7e2a/apply to join our mobile editing testing group.
Thanks a lot for your help.
Mohammed S. Abdulai *Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*
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