Please, anyone who reads this, stop posting links to the mobile version of Wikipedia. It doesn’t switch automatically on PC, and I see it happen all the time. Just take the half a second to remove the “.m” from the beginning of the link, save everyone else from the pain of having to be surprised by it and taking the time to do it themselves.
I really think that Wikipedia should fix this on their end. URLs are by definition intended to be universal, not tied to the viewing platform.
If they have to provide some kind of way to force desktop or mobile versions, okay. But for God’s sake, have the default be to show mobile on mobile and desktop on desktop but don’t by default detect the platform and then encode information in the URL to force a version of the website.
I agree, but I don’t know where to even begin trying to make that change so I do what I can where I can, with that just being to try and get people that make the mistake here to fix it and pay more attention in the future.
Please, anyone who reads this, stop posting links to the mobile version of Wikipedia. It doesn’t switch automatically on PC, and I see it happen all the time. Just take the half a second to remove the “.m” from the beginning of the link, save everyone else from the pain of having to be surprised by it and taking the time to do it themselves.
I really think that Wikipedia should fix this on their end. URLs are by definition intended to be universal, not tied to the viewing platform.
If they have to provide some kind of way to force desktop or mobile versions, okay. But for God’s sake, have the default be to show mobile on mobile and desktop on desktop but don’t by default detect the platform and then encode information in the URL to force a version of the website.
I agree, but I don’t know where to even begin trying to make that change so I do what I can where I can, with that just being to try and get people that make the mistake here to fix it and pay more attention in the future.
Done