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Wikipedia mobile annoys me by removing the other languages column without seeming to offer any alternative but forcing desktop. That column is about 60% of Wiki

Wikipedia mobile annoys me by removing the other languages column without seeming to offer any alternative but forcing desktop. That column is about 60% of Wikipedia's utility for me.

emblaegh 9y ago
You can access the other languages column using the icon below the title of the article at the top.
- remline 9y ago
  Odd, the difference in data relationship compared to desktop threw me off and left me searching the burger menu.. The desktop version still seems better for browsing an article on my recent 5“ budget mobile. I'd say we are basically risking various UI wars that may continue indefinitely by moving the goal posts for the brief gap that mobile simply wasn't good enough at presenting minimum desktop..
  - rocky1138 9y ago
    I believe you can set the mobile Ghostery browser to request the desktop version of any given website. No word on whether it remembers that request for the next time you visit, though.
eriknstr 9y ago
GitHub mobile has a similar issue. I have not found any way to fork a repository on the mobile site so I have to request the desktop site in order to do so.
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npsimons 9y ago
> Wikipedia mobile annoys me by removing the other languages column without seeming to offer any alternative but forcing desktop. That column is about 60% of Wikipedia's utility for me. Two thoughts immediately sprang to my mind: 1) You are really smart to speak that many languages. 2) You are an exceptionally rare user.
- kahnpro 9y ago
  You're kidding? Many people even in the US speak two or more languages. English and Spanish/Chinese/Arabic/who knows. And then Europe?
- remline 9y ago
  I think my usage pattern is probably a significant one for all the non-english Wikipedia's and a reason why it has bested some language specific ones.. But I wasn't really saying my use case was common only showing it as another example where choices made to reduce UI and thereby improve some use cases must hurt others. That kind of mobile site should have a short life as mobile comes up to the bear minimum of 1990s utility as long as we don't give mobile UI a life of it's own with silly nonsense like bottom menu's for the lazy phablet user.. Making the screen shrink for input is the vendors problem. Wanting phablet users to be the priority users of all UIs is the pony we don't give them now that mobile is all grown up and we can ignore their tantrums.

Wikipedia mobile annoys me by removing the other languages column without seeming to offer any alternative but forcing desktop. That column is about 60% of Wikipedia's utility for me.

emblaegh 9y ago

You can access the other languages column using the icon below the title of the article at the top.

remline 9y ago
Odd, the difference in data relationship compared to desktop threw me off and left me searching the burger menu.. The desktop version still seems better for browsing an article on my recent 5“ budget mobile. I'd say we are basically risking various UI wars that may continue indefinitely by moving the goal posts for the brief gap that mobile simply wasn't good enough at presenting minimum desktop..
- rocky1138 9y ago
  I believe you can set the mobile Ghostery browser to request the desktop version of any given website. No word on whether it remembers that request for the next time you visit, though.

eriknstr 9y ago

GitHub mobile has a similar issue. I have not found any way to fork a repository on the mobile site so I have to request the desktop site in order to do so.

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npsimons 9y ago

> Wikipedia mobile annoys me by removing the other languages column without seeming to offer any alternative but forcing desktop. That column is about 60% of Wikipedia's utility for me. Two thoughts immediately sprang to my mind: 1) You are really smart to speak that many languages. 2) You are an exceptionally rare user.

kahnpro 9y ago
You're kidding? Many people even in the US speak two or more languages. English and Spanish/Chinese/Arabic/who knows. And then Europe?
remline 9y ago
I think my usage pattern is probably a significant one for all the non-english Wikipedia's and a reason why it has bested some language specific ones.. But I wasn't really saying my use case was common only showing it as another example where choices made to reduce UI and thereby improve some use cases must hurt others. That kind of mobile site should have a short life as mobile comes up to the bear minimum of 1990s utility as long as we don't give mobile UI a life of it's own with silly nonsense like bottom menu's for the lazy phablet user.. Making the screen shrink for input is the vendors problem. Wanting phablet users to be the priority users of all UIs is the pony we don't give them now that mobile is all grown up and we can ignore their tantrums.