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| title = Make galleries work better for mobile
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For example, compare the desktop and mobile versions of [[:no:Kaupanger stavkirke#Bilder]]. If you're doing this on a desktop computer, make sure to make the screen pretty narrow (like a mobile device) and reload the page – the galleries behave differently when the page is loaded with a narrow screen. Another example with slideshows is [[:no:Ardenneroffensiven]], which has several thoughtfully-crafted slideshow galleries, but they look pretty bad in mobile.
For example, compare the desktop and mobile versions of [[:no:Kaupanger stavkirke#Bilder]]. If you're doing this on a desktop computer, make sure to make the screen pretty narrow (like a mobile device) and reload the page – the galleries behave differently when the page is loaded with a narrow screen. Another example with slideshows is [[:no:Ardenneroffensiven]], which has several thoughtfully-crafted slideshow galleries, but they look pretty bad in mobile.
| audience = Mobile readers
| audience = Mobile readers
| tasks = T194887,T280729,T367079
| phabtasks = T194887,T280729,T367079
| proposer = [[User:Jon Harald Søby (WMNO)|Jon Harald Søby (WMNO)]] ([[User talk:Jon Harald Søby (WMNO)|talk]])
| proposer = Jon Harald Søby (WMNO)
| created = 09:18, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
| created = 2025-09-29T09:18:00Z

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Revision as of 20:15, 2 October 2025

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Description

Galleries are a great feature for showing off many of the good photos from Wikimedia Commons in articles, and by using the captions well, for giving important context to the articles. On the desktop site, galleries work great, they are responsive and have slideshow and hover features.

However, on mobile, galleries are… suboptimal, to say the least. Slideshows don't work at all, and show in the default mode. The default mode doesn't have the responsiveness that the desktop modes have, so all images will be added one after another, and be much narrower than the available width.

For example, compare the desktop and mobile versions of no:Kaupanger stavkirke#Bilder. If you're doing this on a desktop computer, make sure to make the screen pretty narrow (like a mobile device) and reload the page – the galleries behave differently when the page is loaded with a narrow screen. Another example with slideshows is no:Ardenneroffensiven, which has several thoughtfully-crafted slideshow galleries, but they look pretty bad in mobile.

Assigned focus area

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Type of wish
Feature request
Affected users

Mobile readers

Phabricator tasks
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Voting

This wish currently has 2 supporters. Voting for this wish is open until it is completed.

Supporters of this wish
Support Jon Harald Søby (WMNO) (talk) 09:18, 29 September 2025
Support Majority of users on wikipedia are now on mobile, so fixing mobile display should have high priority. Tholme (talk) 12:37, 20 January 2026