A few people (including myself) have expressed some concerns about the way
in which the mobile site is being rewritten. I don't really think Bugzilla
or
MediaWiki.org are the appropriate forums for this, but this list probably
is. (I assume Patrick Reilly is subscribed to this list. CC'ing him in any
case.)
The previous mobile site was written in Ruby and does some of its own
parsing. The rewrite is written in PHP and many people seem to agree that it
should be some sort of "skin" system so that it's adaptable to other
MediaWiki installations and doesn't try to do anything too crazy (like
re-implement the parser). There are concerns that the current rewrite
approach (in SVN in an extension called "PatchOutputMobile" for those
curious) isn't the best, but it's completely possible there are reasons for
the way it's being re-implemented.
Patrick or Tomasz: can you give an overview of what the current
re-implementation strategy is?
* Relevant bug:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25558
* Relevant MediaWiki page:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_site_rewrite
MZMcBride