https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30405
--- Comment #5 from Krinkle <[email protected]> 2012-04-07 20:36:47 UTC --- Random idea: MediaWiki has an i18n setting "mainpage" that takes a full page name which it uses to link to the main page in the logo and other places. Maybe it would make sense to ( - instead of forcing the main page to be in a specific format and apply a fragile conversion to it for mobile - ), instead have an actual wiki page be the mobile main page. An interface message like "mobilefrontend-mainpage" (empty by default, which setup will fallback to the "mainpage" msg) would be used for it. The reason for this is that, although wmf wikis have the (arguably unfortunate) habit of creating complex main pages that uses dozens-of-level-deep nested tables with at least 2 columns, I know many (non-wmf) wikis that don't. And it is exactly these "complex mainpages" that are in need of a mobile version. The simple main pages that other wikis have don't need this conversion per se. Since (AFAIK) all complex-mainpage-having wikis use tranclusion to include the content into their main page sections, it would be fairly trivial to create a mobile version (as a wikipage) that re-uses the same content in a different, mobile-friendly, format. That way there are no requirements and wikis can make the mobile version just the way they want them to be. They could even come up with a design that would work for both desktop and mobile, if they want to. And have no limitations or restrictions if they come up with a new section that perhaps the extension doesn't recognize yet. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
