The wiki on a phone

Reading your world is the thing a phone is genuinely good for — on a train, in a queue, in the twenty minutes before everyone arrives. So the wiki keeps the page and moves everything else out of the way.

Everything here happens automatically below 768px wide.

Where everything moved

On a computer	On a phone
Sidebar tree pinned to the left	A drawer — swipe in from the left edge, or tap Menu
Page details in a right-hand column	A sheet — tap the details button, swipe down to dismiss
Breadcrumb trail in the page header	Pinned across the top, so you always know where you are
Formatting toolbar floating by the cursor	A ribbon along the bottom, above the keyboard

Swiping in the sidebar

The sidebar opens with a swipe from the very left edge of the screen. Only the edge — a swipe that starts in the middle of the page belongs to whatever you started it on, so you can still scroll a wide table or pan an embedded map without the menu jumping out at you.

Reading

1. Move between pages — tap a page in the sidebar drawer, or use the previous/next arrows in the breadcrumb bar to follow your reading order.

2. Follow a link — wiki links work exactly as they do on a computer. Tap one to go there; use your phone’s back gesture to come back.

3. See a page’s details — tap the details button to bring up the sheet with its chronology and properties.

Writing

Editing works on a phone, and it is genuinely useful for a quick fix — a name you got wrong, a line you thought of on the bus. The formatting toolbar becomes a ribbon along the bottom of the screen, sitting above the keyboard rather than floating next to the cursor where your thumb would cover it.

Long documents want a bigger screen

Restructuring a long page — dragging blocks around, building tables, arranging images — is still easier with a mouse. The phone is for reading, and for the edit you would otherwise forget.

Saving a world to read offline

Wiki pages are one of the things you can save for offline reading, which is what makes the phone worth it in a basement with no signal. See Working offline.