Recently, I have noticed that article templates (i.e. {{nfd}} or {{stub}}) are not appearing on articles on the mobile wikiHow.
In the above picture, you see the edit screen of an article from Mobile wikiHow. In this picture, you can see the article has a stub tag, and an NFD tag for joke and incomplete.In the above picture of the same article on Mobile wikiHow, there are no tags appearing on it. I think it would be useful for editors to be able to see what tags are on the article. For example, an editor seeing an NFD Tag on an article may be encouraged to vote on it’s discussion page. Any questions? ~Andrew~
The images aren’t showing.
Gah, stupid links. I thought I did them right. Anyway, here’s the links. http://www.flickr.com/photos/65364587@N04/5951311345
In the above picture, you see the edit screen of an article from Mobile wikiHow. In this picture, you can see the article has a stub tag, and an NFD tag for joke and incomplete. http://www.flickr.com/photos/65364587@N04/5951311359/
In the above picture of the same article on Mobile wikiHow, there are no tags appearing on it.
Use Shutterfly instead when uploading pictures. They actually show up.
Templates never show up on the mobile site. It is supposed to be like this.
system
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Hmmm. I’m not sure if templates are supposed to show up on the mobile version of our articles. Our mobile site was intended to be very simple, for now. Let me look into this…
system
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I’ve never seen them… Is this new @AndrewG1999
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Well, I could say that, but I’d be lying.
I’ll say that I’ve never seen the tags on the site before, when I found it with the mobile wikiHow.
system
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Ok, I double checked, this is intentional. Right now our mobile version is designed to be simple and easy to read. The templates do not show so that they don’t clutter the small screen on phones
Well then @Krystle
, I find it a bit strange that the wikiHow app has templates.
Jordan
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The wikiHow app and mobile website are two separate things. It makes sense that templates aren’t visible to people who just want to read an article on the go, on their phone.
system
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Yours truly actually goes on wikiHow at the supermarket to look up recipes to find what ingredients I need to get. I don’t mind as much about the images since you’d have to scroll all the way to the right to see them, but a huge pink template slab at the top indicting a stub would probably throw me back to Google to find something else.
system
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To confirm, we do remove templates from the intro section of wikihow articles on the mobile web site. The wikihow iPhone and Android apps are different beasts, though, because they connect to the old mediawiki API. This is inconsistent, but it will be solved for iOS at least when we create a new app for that platform. Reuben
