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Add tool tip for editing Wikidata descriptions in the iOS app
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From @Johan : We make editing the Wikidata descriptions very visible since it’s one of the two things you can edit. It’s not quite as easy to figure out that they should be lower-case, avoiding the capital letter at the beginning of a sentence. A tool tip or a prompt might be useful. Android are looking into the same thing for the feed, so it might be possible to build on their solution.

Android ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255985

Feedback that prompted this: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team#Distruptive_edits_by_the_iOS_app


Proposed solution

If possible, can we detect if a contributor has entered an uppercase character as the first character and if so show them this warning?

Event Timeline

This is relevant for some writing systems but not for others; also some language (e.g. German) would quite often legitimately start with a capital letter. But a "did you really want to do this?" or a visible tip could be useful nevertheless.

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cmadeo removed cmadeo as the assignee of this task.Dec 1 2020, 7:26 PM
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On the English Wikipedia, the article description is local and should start with a capital

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@Tsevener this is looking good and works well even when both alerts are showing. I tested this in French and noticed that the alerts and most of the UI was not translated though, not sure if that's due to translations still waiting to come in?

@cmadeo hmm, I do think translations are still rolling in on the new text "Only proper nouns...etc." but I would expect the rest of the UI to reflect French. Can you try testing again on TestFlight build #1800 and add a screenshot if you still see English? If your device language is English and the article is FR Wikipedia, I would expect most of the UI on this screen (except content-specific things like article title) to be in English.

Thanks for this context, @Tsevener! In that case, things are looking great to me! Thank you, Toni!

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