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If anyone at Wikipedia is reading this, could you please show the table of contents (TOC) at the top of the page in mobile mode so that we can click and hold th
by zackmorris 5y ago
If anyone at Wikipedia is reading this, could you please show the table of contents (TOC) at the top of the page in mobile mode so that we can click and hold the anchor links to copy them? Or add an option to show TOC. Or at least make the section headers actual links.
The use case here is that some enthusiasts like to share their Wikipedia crawls and especially the "leaf" links at the end of filtering those search trees. Right now their perception is that mobile mode prevents them from doing the one thing that they most enjoy about Wikipedia, which is collaborating.
If there's already a way to access the anchor links from mobile, then by all means enlighten us.
Actually, after YEARS of dealing with this inconvenience, it just occurred to me to try turning off mobile mode entirely. It turns out that you can do this at the bottom of any Wikipedia page by clicking the "Desktop" link. You can go back by clicking the "Mobile view" link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enable_mobile_version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enable_mobile_versio...
You can also click on the hamburger menu -> Settings -> Expand all sections. This is nice for reducing friction during deep Wikipedia crawls where we're skimming large amounts of information. Mobile mode seems to be designed for more of a neurotypical way of browsing data in a top-down fashion, rather than casting a wide net and brainstorming ideas in parallel.