Isn't it time to start moving to responsive mediawiki templates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design), rather than having a separate mobile interface/URL?
For a practical example, see the BBC News website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news), which is the same website on all devices, it just rescales the content/navigation/layout to suit the device. (Try resizing your web browser on your computer to the size of a mobile web browser to see what I mean.) Thanks, Mike > On 11 May 2016, at 20:36, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hoi, > It is wonderful to see how we have evolved.. Does anyone remember the good > old days when it was an application totally and utterly outside of > MediaWiki? > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 11 May 2016 at 20:33, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Forwarding since this may be of general interest regarding Wikipedia >> readership. >> >> Thanks Tilman! >> >> Pine >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Tilman Bayer <tba...@wikimedia.org> >> Date: Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:23 AM >> Subject: [WikimediaMobile] "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms >> of popularity" >> To: mobile-l <mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org> >> Cc: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Analytics Team >> - >> Internal <analytics-inter...@lists.wikimedia.org> >> >> >> New study (US only) by the Knight Foundation: >> https://medium.com/mobile-first-news-how-people-use-smartphones-to , >> summarized here: >> >> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/people-love-wikipedia/482268/ >> >> "People spent more time on Wikipedia’s mobile site than any other news >> or information site in Knight’s analysis, about 13 minutes per month >> for the average visitor. CNN wasn’t too far behind, at 9 minutes 45 >> seconds per month. BuzzFeed clocked in third at 9 minutes 21 seconds >> per month. (BuzzFeed, however, slays both CNN and Wikipedia in time >> spent with the sites’ apps, compared with mobile websites. BuzzFeed >> users devote more than 2 hours per month to its apps, compared with >> about 46 minutes among CNN app users and 31 minutes among Wikipedia >> app loyalists.) >> >> Another way to look at Wikipedia’s influence: Wikipedia reaches almost >> one-third of the total mobile population each month, according to >> Knight’s analysis, which used data from the audience-tracking firm >> Nielsen." >> >> >> -- >> Tilman Bayer >> Senior Analyst >> Wikimedia Foundation >> IRC (Freenode): HaeB >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
