All wikis now serve mobile page views on the canonical domain, instead of via a 
redirect.

Over the past month we rolled unified mobile routing to all wikis. The rollout 
ended on Wednesday 8 October, after deploying to English Wikipedia.

The changed improved mobile response time by 20% worldwide, un-broke Commons 
SEO, reduced CDN purge load, and old mobile links now redirect to canonical 
which addresses a long-standing UX issue when opening shared links on desktop. 
Read more about this on the Wikimedia Techblog:

https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/

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Timo Tijhof

On Mon, 8 Sep 2025, Krinkle wrote:
> TLDR: Mobile devices will receive the mobile version on the standard domain, 
> instead of via a redirect to the mobile subdomain. The change is live in the 
> Beta Cluster and on test wikis, and expected to follow a train-like rollout 
> over the next few weeks.
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