The Mobile interface does not display the interwiki link to Commons
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	Mike_Peel
	Dec 8 2021, 10:57 PM

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Access a Wikipedia article that has a Commons category attached to it (e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Telescope )
Switch to Mobile view
Try to access the Commons category through the MediaWiki code

What happens?:

Not much, you can't find the link, unless it's been included as a template in the article (in this case: in the infobox and at the bottom of the page - but not all articles do that, and we should migrate to a built-in solution anyway).

What should have happened instead?:

There should have been a clear link to Commons built into the mobile interface

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Mentioned Here: T219392: AMC: add "In other projects" action to page actions overflow menu
T232927: Update the code behind the Wikimedia Commons link in the sidebar to use P910 and P1754 instead of P373

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Mike_Peel created this task.Dec 8 2021, 10:57 PM

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Not much, you can't find the link, unless it's been included as a template in the article (in this case: in the infobox and at the bottom of the page - but not all articles do that, and we should migrate to a built-in solution anyway).

As "Switch to Mobile view" is explicitly listed as a step to reproduce, where does the non-mobile interface display the interwiki link to Commons while not being a template?

In T297327#7588184, @Aklapper wrote:

Not much, you can't find the link, unless it's been included as a template in the article (in this case: in the infobox and at the bottom of the page - but not all articles do that, and we should migrate to a built-in solution anyway).

As "Switch to Mobile view" is explicitly listed as a step to reproduce, where does the non-mobile interface display the interwiki link to Commons while not being a template?

It's in the sidebar.

In T297327#7588188, @Mike_Peel wrote:

It's in the sidebar.

Where exactly? How is it called / what is the exact string to look for? Again, please provide clear steps which leave no room for interpretation. Thanks! :)

Sidebar in Vector looks like this here: F34894427 (old); F34894426 (new).

See T232927 - or this screenshot from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Telescope :

Jdlrobson closed this task as a duplicate of T219392: AMC: add "In other projects" action to page actions overflow menu.Dec 23 2021, 9:17 PM

@Jdlrobson You seem to have closed the duplicate task as declined, which isn't acceptable - this needs to be fixed. Hence reopening.

We've already discussed this on T219392 on which you expressed a dislike to the proposal. This led to us declining the work. We have no plans to add it now that I'm aware of. Declined tasks can be reopened and worked on so I'm not sure why this is unacceptable. It reflects reality.

Jdlrobson closed this task as a duplicate of T219392: AMC: add "In other projects" action to page actions overflow menu.Dec 23 2021, 9:20 PM

Jdlrobson unsubscribed.

In T297327#7588281, @Jdlrobson wrote:

We've already discussed this on T219392 on which you expressed a dislike to the proposal. This led to us declining the work. We have no plans to add it now that I'm aware of. Declined tasks can be reopened and worked on so I'm not sure why this is unacceptable. It reflects reality.

I can't comprehend how not linking to Commons on the mobile interface reflects reality - this is a fundamental problem that needs to be fixed. You can't just decline this without a solution.

Please do not reopen this ticket and do not prioritize if you don't plan to work on this yourself. See previous comments. Thanks.

@Aklapper @Jdlrobson I disagree with you, but will take this to a Community Wishlist proposal rather than following this up further now.

Couldn't see a way to reply to this without resubscribing Jdlrobson, removing with this edit.

I've proposed this on the 2022 Wishlist at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Reading/Display_links_to_sister_projects_on_mobile

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