Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-25356303-20171105225004/@comment-25356303-20171115000827

The Supreme Argonian wrote: It's an interesting idea, but then where does that leave us phone users? I know from experience that it's absolute torture trying to edit on mobile, and I think that's a main reason for people not editing.

That said, mobile users only have the ability to contribute to the /d, and it depends on what you class as "contributing". If someone makes a popular series, are they contributing?

My point is that I think people are forgetting the mobile users. I love this community as much as any PC user, but I simply cannot edit. That's true, but I'm not sure how we would best include mobile users. I want to include them, but I can't think of a way to create an editing contest that is equally accessible for people on all platforms. Currently, powerusers on the wiki tend to edit with desktop, so in order to get the most content additions out of this, my inclination would be to focus there.

The idea of "how important are the Forums/Chat" in relation to the mainspace has come up before, but I would generally argue that taking care of articles is the more important task by a long shot. We get a few hundred thousand pageviews every day, sometimes in the millions, almost all of which are on wiki articles. I think it's important to recognize the usefulness of Discussions, but this site is a wiki before a social space.

What would make this process less frustrating is if Wikia actually got around to implementing an editing feature on the mobile app, but I doubt that's coming anytime soon.

I also want to mention that those "Editing Basics" posts make editing seem really dull. It really puts me off trying to edit.

The only "Editing Basics" thread I made so far was devoted almost exclusively to syntax. Boring as it may be, it's still a necessity to know how to format things if you ever want to edit. I plan on writing a few more parts to that series detailing the more interesting aspects of editing.