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truly love the mobile design of wikipedia and find myself adding ".m" to every link that i visit on wikipedia. it has larger fonts, more readable copy (for me a

truly love the mobile design of wikipedia and find myself adding ".m" to every link that i visit on wikipedia. it has larger fonts, more readable copy (for me at least), and works great on mobile. surprisingly the trick worked with this one as well! how come the mobile design is not the default?

Kuinox 6y ago
On mobile I struggle to remove the m. on every link. The mobile version does not work well with the research feature, and I never took time to know where do you switch to another language.
pvg 6y ago
Ironically, switching to different language versions of the same page is irritating on the mobile version.
- Kiro 6y ago
  How do you even do it? My biggest compliant about the mobile site.
  - pvg 6y ago
    I seem to remember it used to be a foldout thingie as you scrolled down (at which point you might as well just hit the 'Desktop' link at the bottom). But apparently no more! I just found it again after some intense staring - it's the icon with two characters on the far left of the bar right under the article title.
    - Kiro 6y ago
      Wow, I've seen that button many times but I was almost certain it was related to something... else. Thank you!
forgotpwd16 6y ago
Because it is limited in design. It misses the sidebar which has useful links, the discussion page, the history page, doesn't have account links. Also the more compact text the desktop version is preferable to some. You can automatically redirect to the mobile version if you want using a user script. I'm using a similar one for the reverse. Edit: Here you're. https://gist.github.com/leakypixel/1b0a30fbdc815016c14264b82172d841 https://gist.github.com/leakypixel/1b0a30fbdc815016c14264b82...
magnio 6y ago
The math template (the HTML one, not MathJax) and many other templates don't work well with the mobile version, and the talk page isn't there. On desktop, I suggest installing Stylus and using a more readable and elegant Wikipedia themes. I like wikipedia.rehash by krasjet.
hannasanarion 6y ago
Try Wikiwand. It's a browser extension that gives all wikipedia pages a mobile-like design.
notatoad 6y ago
I'm not very involved in wikipedia politics so i might be wrong here, but my perception is that the desktop wikipedia has a lot of eyes on it and any change is received with a "aahh, change is scary" response. the people who react negatively to change are also the people don't like mobile versions of websites, so the mobile site is more free to experiment and evolve their design.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 6y ago
  Mobile is read- and very-occasionally-edit. Desktop is basically the full admin interface for a Google-scale website with only rudimentary authentication requirements and a default-allowed policy. That works.
bawolff 6y ago
Note the mobile skin is separate from the mobile site. If you set in your preferences the skin Minerva Neue, you will get it on desktop (just the skin, there are non skin differences with the mobile site you wont get). As for why not default- i imagine partially because the mobile site tends to be unpopular with power users (of course opinions vary)
jholman 6y ago
Truly hate that I have to deal with deleting the .m off other people's links. It's so ugly, it has these disgustingly oversized fonts, and because all the sections are hidden by default, it works badly on mobile and even worse on a real computer. How come I can't just stop seeing that loathsome mobile design, both on my desktop and on my phone? And no, I'm not kidding.

Kuinox 6y ago

On mobile I struggle to remove the m. on every link. The mobile version does not work well with the research feature, and I never took time to know where do you switch to another language.

pvg 6y ago

Ironically, switching to different language versions of the same page is irritating on the mobile version.

Kiro 6y ago
How do you even do it? My biggest compliant about the mobile site.
- pvg 6y ago
  I seem to remember it used to be a foldout thingie as you scrolled down (at which point you might as well just hit the 'Desktop' link at the bottom). But apparently no more! I just found it again after some intense staring - it's the icon with two characters on the far left of the bar right under the article title.
  - Kiro 6y ago
    Wow, I've seen that button many times but I was almost certain it was related to something... else. Thank you!

forgotpwd16 6y ago

Because it is limited in design. It misses the sidebar which has useful links, the discussion page, the history page, doesn't have account links. Also the more compact text the desktop version is preferable to some. You can automatically redirect to the mobile version if you want using a user script. I'm using a similar one for the reverse. Edit: Here you're. https://gist.github.com/leakypixel/1b0a30fbdc815016c14264b82172d841 https://gist.github.com/leakypixel/1b0a30fbdc815016c14264b82...

magnio 6y ago

The math template (the HTML one, not MathJax) and many other templates don't work well with the mobile version, and the talk page isn't there. On desktop, I suggest installing Stylus and using a more readable and elegant Wikipedia themes. I like wikipedia.rehash by krasjet.

hannasanarion 6y ago

Try Wikiwand. It's a browser extension that gives all wikipedia pages a mobile-like design.

notatoad 6y ago

I'm not very involved in wikipedia politics so i might be wrong here, but my perception is that the desktop wikipedia has a lot of eyes on it and any change is received with a "aahh, change is scary" response. the people who react negatively to change are also the people don't like mobile versions of websites, so the mobile site is more free to experiment and evolve their design.

IfOnlyYouKnew 6y ago
Mobile is read- and very-occasionally-edit. Desktop is basically the full admin interface for a Google-scale website with only rudimentary authentication requirements and a default-allowed policy. That works.

bawolff 6y ago

Note the mobile skin is separate from the mobile site. If you set in your preferences the skin Minerva Neue, you will get it on desktop (just the skin, there are non skin differences with the mobile site you wont get). As for why not default- i imagine partially because the mobile site tends to be unpopular with power users (of course opinions vary)

jholman 6y ago

Truly hate that I have to deal with deleting the .m off other people's links. It's so ugly, it has these disgustingly oversized fonts, and because all the sections are hidden by default, it works badly on mobile and even worse on a real computer. How come I can't just stop seeing that loathsome mobile design, both on my desktop and on my phone? And no, I'm not kidding.