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2012/5/18 Jon Robson <[email protected]>

> Currently www.wikipedia.org is not mobile friendly - when served to a
> mobile device it appears the same as the desktop site meaning a user
> has to zoom and scroll around the page (see bug 30389 [1]). We can do
> better!
>
> As a first step it made sense in my head that we should use media
> queries for devices which support them to adapt the desktop site so it
> is optimised for at least modern mobile users which would be a step in
> the right direction.
>
> I made a couple of changes [2,3] on the www.wikipedia.org_template
> (temp version) to support this. Firstly I moved inline styles into css
> rules and then I added device specific css rules that use media
> queries. This results in a mobile optimised homepage [4] for any
> devices which have a max screen width of 480px (which was the width
> that I judged problems with the desktop layout began to occur).
>
> I would appreciate thoughts on whether this is workable and what would
> need to happen to move these changes over to the homepage. The current
> desktop site stays exactly the same and I'm sure there are further
> optimisations that can be made to make this adapted version prettier
> (please do volunteer those if you believe you can improve it even more
> so!).
>
> Going forward when device detection is built into the mediawiki core
> it would be great to support other mobile devices which do not have
> media query support by serving these additional styles without the
> media query wrapper.
>
> Thank you for your interest and help in making Wikipedia more usable
> to our growing mobile community!
> Jon
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30389
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Www.wikipedia.org_template%2Ftemp&diff=3764806&oldid=3754632
> [3]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Www.wikipedia.org_template%2Ftemp&diff=3764927&oldid=3764806
> [4] http://bug-attachment.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=10619
>
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