Fuck you, Mobile version of Wikipedia! Rot in hell!
I am absolutely sick of Wikipedia having an entire separate URL for their mobile versions. It seems as though people on mobile devices are automatically redirected there, but people that go to mobile versions on a real computer are not automatically redirected to the normal version of the page and must suffer with a dumbed-down version of the page that doesn’t even have a link to the normal version of the page.
I don’t blame the people who post the links; I more blame Wikipedia for a situation that I’m not aware of any other website having. I’ve never seen anyone else have a different URL for the mobile version of the page, not that I would know, but I’ve never seen links to mobile versions of anything other than Wikipedia.
Maybe this is too mild an annoyance for the Pit, but it’s really gotten to the breaking point for me. I’m as mad as hell, and I’m going to take it just as I’ve always taken it, grumbling and muttering, but now complaining in the Pit too.
Maybe I can pledge to give them money conditional on them getting rid of the different URLs. Any chance that would do anything?
Yes, it would be nice if it was automatic, but if you’re on desktop just remove the “m.” from the beginning of the url and you’re back in desktop-land.
It appears that there are Chrome and Firefox extensions to automatically redirect from the mobile version of Wikipedia. I haven’t used them before, nor do I want to test them out just for the purpose of this thread, so I can’t vouch for their effectiveness or what risks they might present to your computer. If you do decide to try them out, I suggest proceeding with caution.
Netflix has the original 5 seasons that were on NBC before they canceled the show, plus the 6th season filmed for Yahoo Screen in 2014-2015. (Yahoo Screen shut down in 2016.)
The movie is not real, the trailer was a fan project someone put together. Not that a movie won’t happen, and there has been buzz about the possibility for years, but nothing has been announced.
The only reason I linked to that video was because when I went to the mobile version of YouTube on my phone, it was literally the first video that was suggested to me.
There is actually a link from the mobile version to the desktop version. If you scroll all the way down to the bottom of this article (a mobile version) then literally at the very bottom of the page, you have three hyperlinks: to the Wikipedia “Terms of Use”, the Wikipedia “Privacy Policy”, and a link that says “Desktop” and links to this page (the regular version of that same article).
If anyone cares, I wrote a userscript long ago to fix this. All it does is automatically remove the .m as quickly as it can. I hadn’t originally even published it, as it’s pretty simple, but I guess others might find it useful:
Summary: Redirect to the desktop versions of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wiktionary
To install it, you’ll need to install Tampermonkey if you don’t already have a UserScript extension. (The title says “for Chrome” but you can choose a different browser.)
Sorry (not sorry) for the bump, but it’s happened in 3 different threads today so far, and I just know it’s going to be more before the day is through. I blame the posters.
From my brief experimentation just now, it seems this only happens if whoever shared the link did so by using the mobile browser version of Wikipedia and just copied the URL from the URL window. The fact that the URL is copied exactly, including the “.m” seems perfectly reasonable to me. To avoid this happening, those sharing Wiki links from mobile devices should use the Wiki apps; if you do that and use the share tool to copy the link, then you get the desktop version, which works like any other link. If you’re on a desktop you’ll get the desktop version; and if you’re on a smartphone you’ll get the dumbed down mobile version, if it exists.
I’m much more irritated by the fact that if I’m using a mobile browser and click on a Wikipedia link, it opens the dumbed down mobile version in another browser tab, instead of opening the content in the Wikipedia app, which I use multiple times every day. Facebook links behave similarly. I think this may be specific to Android, or the version that I’m on. There are settings which supposedly fix this problem, but they have never worked for me. And if it’s a Facebook link, I have to log in, because I almost never use their mobile browser version. Who remembers their Facebook password when they almost never have to use it?
“Six seasons and a movie!” became a rallying cry among fans of the TV show “Community” whenever it looked like the series was about to get cancelled. We got six seasons of the TV show, and apparently someone made a fake trailer for “Community: The Movie”.
(The phrase “Six seasons and a movie!” is from an early season episode when Abed becomes obsessed with the new NBC series “The Cape”. Jeff tells him that show will be cancelled before the first season is up. Abed runs out of the room saying “Six seasons and a movie!” In real life, “The Cape” did get cancelled in its first season.)
If I type “wikipedia.com” from a desk top or mobile browser in desktop mode, I get the normal version (& “wikipedia.org” to boot!); however, if I type “wikipedia.org” from a mobile browser I get the m-dot (Ironman!) version. IOW, they know what version to return to you based upon what browser you’re using; there’s no reason they can’t apply that same logic to a link that you sent me. I try to remove the m. before sending a (usually YT link) but I am human & sometimes don’t. Sorry, but I don’t know why I otherwise need their app clogging up space on my phone & what you stated isn’t nearly a good enough reason.
Everybody that hated the mobile version can now rest easy, because Wikipedia changed the desktop version to look more like it, and also be worse in other ways. Now there’s no room to complain!
Do you like whitespace? Web designers do. The new version has gobs of it. Do you like sites with so much contempt for their users that they override their width preference? The new version has that too! And everyone’s favorite, navigation bars that you can’t scroll past. Yay!
BTW, you can actually go back to the old version. I did so immediately.
