Wikimedia Mobile engineering/BadRedirect

Eeek! .. looks like we didn't detect your browser very well. Sorry about that.

You can help us fixing the issue by giving us your web browser's "user agent", and the name & version of your operating system.

Please look up your user agent using whatsmyuseragent.com and copy it down below. (We don't need your IP address.)

Thank you!

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Missing redirect
Opera/9.80 (Android 2.1-update1; Linux; Opera Mobi/ADR-1107051709; U; sv) Presto/2.8.149 Version/11.10

Steps to reproduce:

1. Delete all cookies and other privacy data.

2. Reboot the phone.

3. Type in www.wikipedia.com/wikipedia in the location bar.

Now you end up on the normal (immobile) Wikipedia.

Step 1 is necessary because mobile/immobile site preferences may be stored in a cookie and we need to ensure that the cookie isn't there. Step 2 ensures that the browser is restarted (not sure if needed). When doing the same thing in Opera Mini on the same phone, I'm taken to the mobile version of Wikipedia. URL syntax chosen to minimise the number of keystrokes necessary (very useful on a slow typing device such as a phone): there's a shortcut for ".com", "www." is already there and no "wiki." just gives a redirect to the right place.

Maybe the problem is that Opera Mobile for Android mentions both Linux and Android? The former might suggest a desktop computer... (213.100.158.73 09:33, 4 August 2011 (UTC))


 * Just for comparison, the user agent string for Opera for Linux desktop computers looks similar, but doesn't mention "Android" or "Opera Mobi":
 * Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; ja) Presto/2.9.168 Version/11.50
 * I wrote the initial message too, but from a different IP address. (212.247.11.156 22:13, 4 August 2011 (UTC))