Actually there is no need to use mp- or any other type of prefix. Simply omit any of them to turn off main page special casing. It is totally optional.
Another trick - you can turn off main page special casing by adding useskin=Minerva to the url of the desktop site. A great way to prepare your main page for mobile without breaking anything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main%20page?useskin=minerva&useformat=desktop
For most main pages the most useful thing you can do towards this is kill your use of tables.
Personally I think the mobile main page should not hide any content. Hiding content is a hack and lazy.
Happy to help with any efforts to making main pages more user friendly. in past I have attempted but no one has seemed to care and taken any advice I've given them. :/
Hi,The Hebrew Wikipedia community is questioning the current design of the Mobile main page, and this raises some questions about the mobile main page design for all languages.
I don't have a strong opinion myself, but the current tendency is to show all the boxes rather than just a few, as it is now.
This begs the question - is it really good for mobile readers?
For example, is the mobile main page very popular at all, or is there much more traffic to the articles?
Is there a difference between mobile main page traffic in the app and in the mobile web?
Are there any known good practices for mobile main page design?Finally, what is the plan for the future development of the main page? The current software still uses HTML ids like "mp-tfa"; is there a plan to change it?
Thanks!
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