The Wikimedia Foundation plans to remove support for WML for Wikimedia projects, in order to steer more development toward the web's de facto markup language, HTML, on mobile web browsers.
A trial of the WML deprecation is slated to begin February 17, 2014, and assuming no major hiccups, will no longer be supported as of February 24, 2014.
WML usage has fallen dramatically and appears to now be below 0.009% of hits across Wikipedia in general. Even in markets with greater feature phone usage, direct WML usage still falls below 0.1%; in some of these markets there is no WML usage.
If you have concerns, please reply to this thread.
Thanks, Dan
On 08.02.2014, 4:11 Dan wrote:
The Wikimedia Foundation plans to remove support for WML for Wikimedia projects, in order to steer more development toward the web's de facto markup language, HTML, on mobile web browsers.
A trial of the WML deprecation is slated to begin February 17, 2014, and assuming no major hiccups, will no longer be supported as of February 24, 2014.
WML usage has fallen dramatically and appears to now be below 0.009% of hits across Wikipedia in general. Even in markets with greater feature phone usage, direct WML usage still falls below 0.1%; in some of these markets there is no WML usage.
If you have concerns, please reply to this thread.
This has just been implemented (thanks a lot, Faidon!). Please let us know if you've encountered any problems. If there will be no issues reported for a week, this change will become permanent.
Ahem, dumb question, what is WML? The acronym appears to be ambiguous, probably you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language? WLM is mentioned in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend#API but would use an explanatory link; other than that the wiki doesn't know much about it. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Search/WML
Nemo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language
On Feb 18, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Ahem, dumb question, what is WML? The acronym appears to be ambiguous, probably you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language? WLM is mentioned in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend#API but would use an explanatory link; other than that the wiki doesn't know much about it. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Search/WML
Nemo
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