[WikiEN-l] "Invitation to edit" template and m.wikipedia.org

[Casey Brown]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Andrew Crawford
<acrawford at laetabilis.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed that the "Invitation to edit" template which is being trialled on
> some medical articles is not working as designed on m.wikipedia.org.
>
> The tutorial information for new users is meant to be collapsed by default,
> but on m.wikipedia.org the tutorial is expanded by default, which is quite
> undesirable since the article itself is not even expanded when viewed there!

Not only that, but you can't actually edit from the mobile server.

> Here's an example of what I mean:
>
> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema
>
> The template itself is here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Invitation_to_edit

Someone removed it from there, so check it out here:
<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain>

> Since this seems (to me) to be an issue that should be addressed quite
> quickly, is there anyone familiar with how m.wikipedia.org works who could
> advise how the template might be edited to make this not happen? Wapedia has
> the same issue with these articles incidentally.

I've CC'd Hampton Catlin, the main developer of the mobile server, and
Derk-Jan Hartman, another person very involved in mobile stuff, to see
if either of them can help here.

I'm not sure if there's a way to do this right now -- it might be
related to bug 22659[1] and bug 14340[2] -- but if there is, one of
these two would know how to do it. :-)

> Full disclosure: I'm not a fan of the use of this template, but I'm not
> trying to argue against it here - this just needs some expert assistance to
> fix quickly. If there's a more appropriate place than here to ask, please
> clue me in about that too.

[1]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22659
[2]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14340

-- 
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023