Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:55:29 UTC
When visiting an linked commons image using mobile frontend, and clicking on the "description page here" link. You will end up at the normal version of commons instead of the mobile version.
Example URL: <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Busy_desk.svg> Relevant HTML: <big>This is a file from the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" class="extiw" title="commons:Main Page">Wikimedia Commons</a>. Information from its <b><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Busy_desk.svg" class="extiw" title="commons:File:Busy desk.svg">description page there</a></b> is shown below.</big> Though doesn't commons.wikimedia.org auto-redirect?
(In reply to comment #1) > > Though doesn't commons.wikimedia.org auto-redirect? I'm never logged in when using my mobile. and I've never been redirected. using both firefox and dolphin as browser.
You don't get redirected due to bug 43628 -- something ain't quite right there yet.
The issue here is actually bug 43628. The mobile site doesn't force you to view desktop or mobile commons. It allows commons to decide that for you (you may have set a preference to always show desktop). Thus the link is correct but the fact it is not redirecting is the bug here so closing as WONTFIX. Resolving bug 43628 will make this "problem" go away.
(In reply to comment #4) > The issue here is actually bug 43628. > > The mobile site doesn't force you to view desktop or mobile commons. It > allows > commons to decide that for you (you may have set a preference to always show > desktop). Thus the link is correct but the fact it is not redirecting is the > bug here so closing as WONTFIX. > > Resolving bug 43628 will make this "problem" go away. FYI, I'm not logged in while visiting wikimedia sites via my mobile phone. So any preference has no relevance.
The preference is not a user preference but is a cookie set when you switch to mobile/desktop so it is a preference determined by your behaviour rather than an explicit one. For example: If you load the desktop site on your mobile and click "mobile view" then subsequent visits to commons will redirect you to the mobile site.
(In reply to comment #6) > The preference is not a user preference but is a cookie set when you switch > to > mobile/desktop so it is a preference determined by your behaviour rather than > an explicit one. > > For example: If you load the desktop site on your mobile and click "mobile > view" then subsequent visits to commons will redirect you to the mobile site. So I assume the default behavior, regardless if loading via mobile or desktop frontend is to load the desktop frontend on commons? That would make sense as I always delete all cookies when I exit the browser (usually using dolphin browser with the long-press shutdown feature). <rant>Also, trying to find that tiny "mobile view" link on a mobile phone is like trying to read the serial number on the needle in the haystack!</rant> Anyway, wouldn't you agree on the logic that when passing from one site to an other, the same type of frontend is active, if no specific setting is set in a cookie, instead of defaulting to a fixed default, that doesn't take into account where you came from? I'm reopening the bug as I assume it's currently true that if you are on a mobile hone using desktop view and using a interwiki link, you will end up auto-redirected to a mobile view on that sister site if thy have redirect activated and no cookie is set for that site.
This conversation is getting confusing. Yes I completely agree Carl! However, albeit confusingly, this is what bug 43628 aims to solve - the redirector is broken :) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 43628 ***
