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?
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote:
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.
There has been a bug open about this for some time: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30405
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@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@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.
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