Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:45:54 UTC
On English Wikipedia, you can link to sister projects using a variety of short colon prefixes: for instance n: to go to Wikinews, s: to go to Wikisource etc. If you link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Spanish_smoking_ban_takes_effect_in_bars_and_restaurants It takes you to http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Spanish_smoking_ban_takes_effect_in_bars_and_restaurants But if you link to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Spanish_smoking_ban_takes_effect_in_bars_and_restaurants it doesn't take you to the mobile version of Wikinews but the non-mobile version. I tested this on an iPad. I wanted to see if using n: and s: prefixes could be used to hack QRpedia to link to sister projects without having to rewrite QRpedia.
Tested and confirmed on my android
*** Bug 32982 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm not sure what the current status is on the proposal to phase out the ".m" subdomain, but if that were to happen, then this issue becomes obsolete.
(In reply to comment #3) > I'm not sure what the current status is on the proposal to phase out the ".m" > subdomain, but if that were to happen, then this issue becomes obsolete. The prerequisite here is Squid to Varnish migration. However, it wouldn't be easy even after that.
In the meantime, we will be working on providing mobile domain for /all/ Wikimedia projects, which might help with this issue. Project page here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_default_for_sibling_projects
Is this issue any better now with the mobile domain provided for all Wikimedia projects?
This appears to have been resolved, likely from enabling automatic mobile redirection for wikinews.
