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I'm in full agreement with you. Perhaps sites could automatically convert en.m.wikipedia.org into en.wikipedia.org. or you can do this client-side with an exte

by riffic 5y ago

I'm in full agreement with you. Perhaps sites could automatically convert en.m.wikipedia.org into en.wikipedia.org. or you can do this client-side with an extension or tampermonkey sort of fix. To anyone pasting in wp links: be kind, take the m out of the url when sharing links.

crazygringo 5y ago
There already is a Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mobile2desktop-wikipedia/hgdfjjhaahfdggnecdecjekkimepkpaf?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mobile2desktop-wik... I stopped using it a while ago because it wound up breaking something else, I don't remember what it was exactly though. But honestly this is just something Wikipedia itself should handle -- if I'm logged in to Wikipedia, give me a setting to "always redirect mobile to desktop". Wikipedia created the problem with the "m" subdomain, they ought to be the ones fixing it too.
thamer 5y ago
Interesting to see that people dislike the mobile version so much! I only use the mobile version, it's so much more readable. I literally wrote a script that does the exact opposite of what you suggest! I have one script that runs on all pages and converts all Wikipedia links to the mobile version, while another that runs on Wikipedia only and automatically redirects to the mobile version if I somehow land on a non-mobile Wikipedia page. It also has a shortcut to switch between mobile and desktop, and takes the referrer into account so that once I've switched to the desktop version links aren't pointing to the mobile version again. It has a couple more features like a shortcut to edit the page, since I often contribute.
- Arnavion 5y ago
  >I only use the mobile version, it's so much more readable. Same. Once I discovered that, and that the mobile site didn't have the random stalls from loading login.wikimedia.org, I started using it exclusively. The hardest part was retraining my muscle memory to type !wm instead of !wiki when searching for something.
- bee_rider 5y ago
  It seems like we're rapidly converging on the idea "websites could be dumb content, and the browsers should decide how it should be laid out." Perhaps we can have something like this, maybe in the far distant future of 25 years ago...
- thamer 5y ago
  I can't edit the original post, but here's the script if anyone's interested: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/431384-switch-to-mobile-wikipedia-wiktionary-and-back https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/431384-switch-to-mobile-wi... The one to rewrite all WP links on all pages is part of a larger script which I haven't cleaned up yet, but this already provides an automatic switch to mobile if you happen to load a desktop version of the page.
zamadatix 5y ago
Same with old.reddit.com links.

by riffic 5y ago

crazygringo 5y ago

There already is a Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mobile2desktop-wikipedia/hgdfjjhaahfdggnecdecjekkimepkpaf?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mobile2desktop-wik... I stopped using it a while ago because it wound up breaking something else, I don't remember what it was exactly though. But honestly this is just something Wikipedia itself should handle -- if I'm logged in to Wikipedia, give me a setting to "always redirect mobile to desktop". Wikipedia created the problem with the "m" subdomain, they ought to be the ones fixing it too.

thamer 5y ago

Interesting to see that people dislike the mobile version so much! I only use the mobile version, it's so much more readable. I literally wrote a script that does the exact opposite of what you suggest! I have one script that runs on all pages and converts all Wikipedia links to the mobile version, while another that runs on Wikipedia only and automatically redirects to the mobile version if I somehow land on a non-mobile Wikipedia page. It also has a shortcut to switch between mobile and desktop, and takes the referrer into account so that once I've switched to the desktop version links aren't pointing to the mobile version again. It has a couple more features like a shortcut to edit the page, since I often contribute.

Arnavion 5y ago
>I only use the mobile version, it's so much more readable. Same. Once I discovered that, and that the mobile site didn't have the random stalls from loading login.wikimedia.org, I started using it exclusively. The hardest part was retraining my muscle memory to type !wm instead of !wiki when searching for something.
bee_rider 5y ago
It seems like we're rapidly converging on the idea "websites could be dumb content, and the browsers should decide how it should be laid out." Perhaps we can have something like this, maybe in the far distant future of 25 years ago...
thamer 5y ago
I can't edit the original post, but here's the script if anyone's interested: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/431384-switch-to-mobile-wikipedia-wiktionary-and-back https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/431384-switch-to-mobile-wi... The one to rewrite all WP links on all pages is part of a larger script which I haven't cleaned up yet, but this already provides an automatic switch to mobile if you happen to load a desktop version of the page.

zamadatix 5y ago

Same with old.reddit.com links.