Wikipedia:Mobile_communication_bugs

Wikipedia:Mobile communication bugs

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This page in a nutshell: Logged-out editors using the mobile web interface will not receive notifications when another user leaves them a user talk page message. Editors using a mobile app may not receive notifications regardless of whether they are logged in.

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Users with a confirmed email address will get an email by default. This can be turned off in their preferences.
Shown in Vector (default), MonoBook, and Modern skins. Looks like other alerts in Timeless and MinerveNeue skins.
Alert should appear on non-mainspace pages, and any time the user taps "edit". However a caching bug often prevents the alert from showing.
Requires the IP to save another page before showing it, and looks like a normal alert
(fixed January 2023) On Minerva skin (on desktop), notifications that are not alerts were not shown when opening the notification area. This means notifications like "thanks", "(pagename) has been reviewed" and "(user) replied in (topic)" were not shown. Mentions and talk page message notifications are alerts, so those were not affected.^[6]
See also meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Mobile and apps/Mobile editnotices and phab:T201613. The WMF intends to pick this up. For individual wikis, a workaround for mobile web exists.
(fixed July 2022) On Minerva skin (on desktop), the notices were not shown since 18 July 2017 until 8 July 2022.
When using DiscussionTools, the notices are only shown for new sections.
They are shown as a regular section without subject, and also don't necessarily show up in a fixed location in the section list
Links in the message open in the browser, and go the language wiki of the users primary language (ie the first language they've set)
This means that as an example that an user whose languages are set as Dutch, English will always have links go to the Dutch Wikipedia, even when the message is displayed on the English Wikipedia
CentralNotice banners can be configured to display only on some device classes as needed.

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[email-1] Users with a confirmed email address will get an email by default. This can be turned off in their preferences.

[2] Shown in Vector (default), MonoBook, and Modern skins. Looks like other alerts in Timeless and MinerveNeue skins.

[4] Alert should appear on non-mainspace pages, and any time the user taps "edit". However a caching bug often prevents the alert from showing.

[8] Requires the IP to save another page before showing it, and looks like a normal alert

[desktop-alerts-11] (fixed January 2023) On Minerva skin (on desktop), notifications that are not alerts were not shown when opening the notification area. This means notifications like "thanks", "(pagename) has been reviewed" and "(user) replied in (topic)" were not shown. Mentions and talk page message notifications are alerts, so those were not affected.^[6]

[17] See also meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Mobile and apps/Mobile editnotices and phab:T201613. The WMF intends to pick this up. For individual wikis, a workaround for mobile web exists.

[desktop-editnotices-18] (fixed July 2022) On Minerva skin (on desktop), the notices were not shown since 18 July 2017 until 8 July 2022.

[desktop-editnotices2-19] When using DiscussionTools, the notices are only shown for new sections.

[android-tpmessage-note-24] They are shown as a regular section without subject, and also don't necessarily show up in a fixed location in the section list

[android-abusenote-25] Links in the message open in the browser, and go the language wiki of the users primary language (ie the first language they've set)
This means that as an example that an user whose languages are set as Dutch, English will always have links go to the Dutch Wikipedia, even when the message is displayed on the English Wikipedia

[centralnotices-note-27] CentralNotice banners can be configured to display only on some device classes as needed.

[mobile-ip-talk-3] [1]
phab:T295910: Yellow talk page message banner appearing inconsistently on edit page

[mobile-user-talk-5] [2]
phab:T240976: Mobile "new messages" notification should be more intrusive by default

[ios-ip-notices-6] [3]
phab:T312196: IP editor talk page notification

[ios-notices-7] [4]
phab:T274404: Support notifications on the iOS app

[android-ip-talk-9] [5]
phab:T291481: Determine approach for notifications for IP Editors on Android

[10] [6]
phab:T306737 On Minerva desktop, notification icon only opens alerts (never notifications)

[android-user-talk-12] [7]
phab:T281413: Show notifications about Talk messages while browsing articles.

[mobile-custom-block-13] [8]
phab:T261944: Show full reason in mobile block message drawer

[ios-block-14] [9]
phab:T275118: iOS app does not show block messages

[android-ip-block-15] [10]
phab:T276149: Android application sometimes falsely claims that a user account is blocked

[android-user-block-16] [11]
phab:T276147: Android application does not show block messages

[mobile-editnotices-20] [12]
See also mw:Edit Check project

[ios-editnotices-21] [13]
phab:T201596: iOS app does not present edit notices

[android-editnotices-22] [14]
phab:T201597: Android app does not present edit notices

[mobile-tpmessage-23] [15]
phab:T312309: Unify experience for making lead section content available on mobile talk pages

[android-abusefilter-26] [16]
phab:T276139: Android application does not display custom AbuseFilter messages

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Editor Feature	Desktop		Mobile Web		iOS app		Android app
Editor Feature	IP	User	IP	User	IP	User	IP	User
Tag	(none)		Mobile web edit		iOS app edit		Android app edit
"New message" alert^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Peach bar of doom	Miniature orange bar of doom^{[lower-alpha 2]}	Flaky^[1]^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Looks like other alerts^[2]	No (?)^[3]	Yes (since Jun 2022)^[4]	Kinda, but subject to certain weird limitations^{[lower-alpha 4]}^[5]	Looks like other alerts
Other alerts^{[lower-alpha 1]}	—	Yes^{[lower-alpha 5]}	—	Yes	—	Yes (since Jun 2022)^[4]	—	Yes^[7]
Custom block messages	Yes	Yes	Yes^[8]	Yes^[8]	Yes (since Mar 2023)^[9]	Yes (since Mar 2023)^[9]	Seems flaky^[10]	Yes^[11]
Partial block shown as partial	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[11]	Yes^[11]
Editnotices^{[lower-alpha 6]}	Yes^{[lower-alpha 7]}^{[lower-alpha 8]}	Yes^{[lower-alpha 7]}^{[lower-alpha 8]}	Yes via T316178 and JavaScript gadget^[12]	Yes via T316178 and JavaScript gadget^[12]	Yes^[13]	Yes^[13]	Yes^[14]	Yes^[14]
Talk page banners (e.g. {{FAQ}})	Yes	Yes	Hidden behind tiny link^[15]	Hidden behind tiny link^[15]	Prominently shown, but some messages are mangled	Prominently shown, but some messages are mangled	Shown as a regular section^{[lower-alpha 9]}	Shown as a regular section^{[lower-alpha 9]}
Custom edit filter messages	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (since Mar 2023)	Yes (since Mar 2023)	Mostly^{[lower-alpha 10]}^[16]	Mostly^{[lower-alpha 10]}^[16]
CentralNotices^{[lower-alpha 11]}	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No

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