Last modified: 2014-08-27 17:53:29 UTC
Created attachment 16273 [details] Category:Women_physicists When accessing this page in the mobile app, the page only shows the category description but no articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women_physicists According to Yuvipanda on IRC, this issue repeats with action=mobileview
This is because of CategoryTree extension (most probably) not doing much on mobile, as seen from the HTML structure in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=mobileview&format=json&page=Category%3APeople§ions=all So unsure if the problem is in MobileFrontend or CategoryTree.
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Trello card https://trello.com/c/P3SkvWT6
Eh, how is CategoryTree related to this? IMO, the app should just use the API to get category listings the same way it does not rely on mobileview for search, etc.
Moving this to the app since in my opinion the problem being reported by the user here is actually "Categories aren't working as I expect in the app".
Right now, categories are only surfaced to the user if they go out of their way to search for them. It's not really our priority to sort categories out right now.
The main problem I noticed, though, is that when I click a link to Wikipedia on my mobile device, the app is automatically loaded (or is suggested) This makes the current issue a little more problematic, in my view. Short of forcing your phone to not load the app on specifically category pages (and users will likely not know or remember to do that selectively) it's almost impossible to view categories on the phone. Is there a way to block the app for the moment on category pages? iirc it works with recognizing all wikipedia links, but maybe there's a way to disable that selectively until this issue is resolved?
