Unified mobile routing: Done!
Krinkle <[email protected]>
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All wikis now serve mobile page views on the canonical domain, instead of via a redirect. Over the past month we rolled unified mobile routing to all wikis. The rollout ended on Wednesday 8 October, after deploying to English Wikipedia. The changed improved mobile response time by 20% worldwide, un-broke Commons SEO, reduced CDN purge load, and old mobile links now redirect to canonical which addresses a long-standing UX issue when opening shared links on desktop. Read more about this on the Wikimedia Techblog: https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/ -- Timo Tijhof On Mon, 8 Sep 2025, Krinkle wrote: > TLDR: Mobile devices will receive the mobile version on the standard domain, instead of via a redirect to the mobile subdomain. The change is live in the Beta Cluster and on test wikis, and expected to follow a train-like rollout over the next few weeks. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/