Jump to content

Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikidata/Adding statements on mobile devices

From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki

Adding statements on mobile devices

  • Problem: On mobile devices it's only possible to add and edit interwikilinks, labels, descriptions and alias. But it's not possible to edit or add statements.
  • Proposed solution:
  • Who would benefit: Users, who:
    • don't have a PC available at any time
    • prefer to use mobile devices
  • More comments: This change would make editing Wikidata more accessible, time- and devices-independent. Previously proposed in the 2016 Wishlist Survey.
  • Phabricator tickets: T95878
  • Proposer: Yuriklim (talk) 10:58, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

  • @Yuriklim: I fixed typo of the name page. Tryvix1509 (talk) 10:01, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I strongly support this proposal. I mainly contribute to Wikidata and Wikipedia with my mobile phone. When editing Wikidata I switch between the web mobile interface (known as Minerva) to write wikitext, labels and interwiki links and the desktop interface (I use Timeless) to add statements. It's quite difficult. I think that something that half of the traffic on the Web comes from people using mobile devices. Those people should have a solution to quickly contribute to Wikidata. PAC2 (talk) 21:42, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strongly support. Would also support a separate Wikidata app, or the option to edit Wikidata in the existing Wikipedia app. CvZ (talk) 02:47, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Like this idea. This will be help contributors to quickly add new information as soon as they find relevant information. John Samuel 18:34, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • This would be a great step forward. Robby (talk) 21:56, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes. I often navigate by WikiShootMe to find photo targets and it isn't there, so I walk around and find the target, but entering the correct location is not really practical until I get home to the big computer. WD items and their statements are individually small and self contained, so they ought to be easily edited on small screen. ̴̃Jim.henderson (talk) 08:22, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Voting