On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <yastrak...@wikimedia.org>wrote:
> http://m.wikipedia.org used to be a hard-coded redirect to English > en.m.wikipedia.org, except for the users in the Zero program. We now have > an ability to have complex redirection for that domain. How do you think > m.wikipedia.org should behave? > > We could redirect m. to ... > * the current www.wikipedia.org, which seems to work pretty well on the > smaller device screens > * send users to the main page of the user's default language - based on > the browser settings (Accept-Language header) - and later possibly even > based on user's own language prefernces > * ... > > Obviously it should be similar for other projects like wikinews, etc. > > I am not a big fan of building a full blown page at the m. URL, as that > would involve much more work without a clear benefit - there are already > www and main pages available, why build another one. > > Thanks! > --Yuri > > Completely agree that building a new page would be silly, we can just adapt the portals themselves (already editable on meta) with some mobile specific styling if it becomes a problem I think. Personally I'd be a fan sending it to the main 'wikipedia.org' type landing page. Couple reasons (some larger then others): * I've never really been a fan of assuming that they want to go to a specific languages (biggest reason) * Finding 'other' languages on the main page of wikis (both mobile and not) is possible but significantly easier on the main portal screen. * I kinda like the idea of driving home, to anyone who visits that portal at least, how many different languages we have. I feel like it could take their fancy to check out some of the ones they may not have before (either now or later). James _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
