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I personally always use the mobile version

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

for desktop these days.

I much prefer it to the standard version.

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I hate that I don't have the bar on the left to be able to switch to a different language conveniently. I use it all the time and I've no idea if it's even accessible at all in the mobile version. The mobile version also wastes a ton of screen real-estate but I guess that's fashionable these days.

I really enjoy Wikipedia but the #1 item on my feature wishlist is "redirect me towards the non-mobile version of the site when I click a mobile link on the desktop".

It's at the top of each page - click the icon directly under the article title (on the left) that looks like a Chinese character next to an A.

I'd snip a screenshot, but I'm on mobile...

> I'd snip a screenshot, but I'm on mobile...

If you've got a smart phone chances are you can probably take a screenshot, only hassle then is uploading it somewhere.

Yeah I know, I just didn't feel like going through all that while lying in bed at 4am. In any case I was thinking a cropped one would be better (hence the 'snip') — so here it is in all its desktop-edited glory:

https://i.imgur.com/XQKiEIp.png

Oh! I had never paid attention to this icon. This is going to be useful in the future I'm sure, thank you.

Don't worry, they've also removed the ability to switch to other languages on the normal Wikipedia.

The sidebar shows some major languages (German, Hindi etc), but not the ones I'm trying to learn. Clicking the "more" button then has the most ridiculous UI ever: "Suggested languages"! What is the point of suggesting Yiddish to me?!

What? It will remember what languages you have clicked and put them outside.

This feature is a godsend, I no longer need to scroll hundreds of languages to find the one I need.

Hmm, is that a recent addition? Or perhaps there was a bug.

I can see it sets uls-previous-languages in local storage, but if it had been working like this before today, I'm sure it wouldn't have annoyed me.

If you use the beta version (you should; it typically has useful features), you can swipe in from the right.

If you have a Wikipedia account you can set this theme as your default theme in your account preferences without having to visit the m. domain.

Thank you!

Mind giving a pointer? Would love to default to the mobile view, but haven't been able to find the setting you're referring to. Google hasn't helped.

When you're logged in, it's the "MinervaNeue" option here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...

Sidenote, if—like me—you actually prefer the desktop theme, and would like the opposite: to use it on mobile. There is a mobile-friendly version of it in the works, but not yet available. You can try the in-progress version on your mobile here: https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?mobilaction=toggle...

That test mode of the desktop theme is actually live but super hidden away. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hacker_News&use... I've been trying to add a preference to allow user's to opt into it - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186760 - if you can a token of support there might help this get prioritised.

Thank you! MinervaNeue worked perfectly.

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