Isn't it time to start moving to responsive mediawiki templates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design), rather than having a separate mobile interface/URL?
For a practical example, see the BBC News website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news), which is the same website on all devices, it just rescales the content/navigation/layout to suit the device. (Try resizing your web browser on your computer to the size of a mobile web browser to see what I mean.)
Thanks, Mike
On 11 May 2016, at 20:36, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, It is wonderful to see how we have evolved.. Does anyone remember the good old days when it was an application totally and utterly outside of MediaWiki? Thanks, GerardM
On 11 May 2016 at 20:33, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Forwarding since this may be of general interest regarding Wikipedia readership.
Thanks Tilman!
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tilman Bayer tbayer@wikimedia.org Date: Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:23 AM Subject: [WikimediaMobile] "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity" To: mobile-l mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Analytics Team
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New study (US only) by the Knight Foundation: https://medium.com/mobile-first-news-how-people-use-smartphones-to , summarized here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/people-love-wikipedia/...
"People spent more time on Wikipedia’s mobile site than any other news or information site in Knight’s analysis, about 13 minutes per month for the average visitor. CNN wasn’t too far behind, at 9 minutes 45 seconds per month. BuzzFeed clocked in third at 9 minutes 21 seconds per month. (BuzzFeed, however, slays both CNN and Wikipedia in time spent with the sites’ apps, compared with mobile websites. BuzzFeed users devote more than 2 hours per month to its apps, compared with about 46 minutes among CNN app users and 31 minutes among Wikipedia app loyalists.)
Another way to look at Wikipedia’s influence: Wikipedia reaches almost one-third of the total mobile population each month, according to Knight’s analysis, which used data from the audience-tracking firm Nielsen."
-- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB
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