Interesting, if lengthy essay:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cullen328/Smartphone_editing
The author's assertion "In my experience, many productive mobile
device editors prefer the desktop site" is actually open to empirical
testing. Has anyone every tried to find out the percentage of edits
from mobile devices that use the desktop version?
These observations on the talk page about the shortcomings of the
mobile web interface for curation purposes are also worth reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cullen328/Smartphone_editing#PamD.2…
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Tilman Bayer
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