Essentially the issue is that main pages are typically not made with
mobile in mind (they tend to use large tables or 2 column layouts) and
a lot of the content on the main page is arguably not of interest to
mobile.
The decision was to special case these main pages so that editors
could tweak them to render correctly on mobile. If a mobile main page
is not configured a message is shown explaining how to do so. The same
wikipage is used to render both mobile and desktop so feel free to
engage with the en.wiki community if you think more should be shown on
the home page.
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Maryana Pinchuk <mpinchuk(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Andy Mabbett
<andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
wrote:
The en.Wikipedia main page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
has a mobile version:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
which lacks several sections:
* Did you know...
* On this day...
* Today's featured picture
* Other areas of Wikipedia
* Wikipedia's sister projects
could these not be provide as collapsed sections, or links to sub-pages?
Hi again, Andy :)
This is something we'll probably need to play around with a bit to strike a
good balance between not overloading readers with tiny links and boxes that
render poorly on mobile devices, but still letting them explore the full
range of Wikipedia content. I've seen some great ideas coming from engineers
and designers specifically around this problem, so you'll probably see the
mobile main page/navigation start to evolve to reflect some of that work.
Generally, I think it's important to keep in mind that the mobile site is
still very, very new and has lots of room to develop and grow. We're trying
to move fast, but there's an entire encyclopedia reading and editing
experience to rethink from scratch, because the workflows that are
reasonable on desktop won't always carry over to a small touchscreen.
--
Maryana Pinchuk
Associate Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
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