Mobile Gateway/Mobile homepage formatting/ia

Si le pagina principal (initial) de vostre projecto Wikimedia non ha essite formatate pro visualisation in apparatos mobile, e si tu es administrator del projecto in question, per favor seque le instructiones a basso.

Please note: You must have administrator rights in order to edit the homepage.

Step 1
First, decide what content is suitable for the mobile homepage.

Evaluate the page elements in the desktop version (e.g. "Picture of the Day") by asking:


 * how popular are they?
 * are they updated regularly?
 * are they suitable for quick reading?
 * will they fit nicely in a mobile screen?

Once you decide which elements make sense, proceed to Step 2.

Step 2
Tu debe esser identificate e posseder derectos administrative pro facer le sequente cosas. In le disposition scriptorio del pagina principal, clicca sur "" e cerca le elementos que tu vole includer in le disposition mobile.

Pro cata elemento, tu debe inserer un breve instruction in le wikitexto, appellate un "mf selector", inter etiquettas "div", per exemplo:

Que va inter le etiquettas e  ? Probabilemente un patrono pro un elemento del pagina, como le "imagine del die".

Updating styles
Certain styles are not mobile friendly. For example any css rules which make use of fixed pixel size e.g. width, height, padding. If different style treatment is needed please use the Extension:TemplateStyles or port these styles to MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Mobile.css.

Some tips on common problems are addressed @ Making MediaWiki Mobile Friendly.

Clicca sur "".

Tu es quasi finite.

Passo 3
Ora va al URL mobile, le qual es generalmente codicedelingua.m.projecto.org. Tu pote reducer le latitude de tu fenestra de navigator del web pro emular un schermo mobile. Esque le pagina ha un belle aspecto?

Si tu vole facer modificationes, retorna al passo 2. Repete le passos 2 e 3 usque tu es satisfacite.

Finite!

MFSpecialCaseMainPage
When MFSpecialCaseMainPage is enabled (which is disabled by default), it is possible to serve different content to mobile and desktop users. Use of this method is discouraged and deprecated as it only works on the `Main Page` and is a maintenance burden and should only be used as a stop-gap measure when transitioning your MediaWiki site to a mobile experience.

Le paginas principal de cata version linguistic de Wikipedia e de tote le altere projectos de Wikimedia es diverse, dunque il es impossibile presentar un exemplo universal. Nonobstante, pro dar un idea de como isto pote functionar in le sito tue, ecce le version german de Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/ Si tu clicca sur le scheda Vider codice fonte ("Quelltext anzeigen") al latere de "Lesen", tu pote vider le wikitexto. In illo, con le function Cercar de tu navigator, cerca le texto "mf-".

In iste caso, le etiquetta div pro le selectores mf face parte de objectos plus grande del pagina. Solmente un persona familiar con le formato del pagina principal de iste projecto pote comprender isto in detalio.

Ora va a: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/ Le resultante pagina mobile essera visibile. Le sectiones de contento correspondente al selectores mf es rendite in le disposition mobile.

Deprecation steps for wikis using MFSpecialCaseMainPage
MobileFrontend is in the process of deprecating the code relating to main page special casing. If you have a wiki using it you'll want to stop using it immediately. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to use the talk page!

How can I tell if I'm using it?
If your main page contains " " or " " in the HTML markup, you are using it. You can check this by inspecting the HTML for your main page. If this is too technical, you can also check this by copying and pasting the wiki markup into your user namespace and visiting the page in mobile. If there is a visual difference between your main page and the page in your user namespace you are using main page special casing.

E.g. compare https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jdlrobson/Main_page_formatting_test with the actual main page for English Wikipedia.

What can I do to fix this?
Assuming you do not want to do a big redesign and just want to retain the existing main page design, you can follow this guide.

Copy the main page markup into a sandbox e.g. a sub page of the user namespace. Now switch to mobile mode. Note, the mobile site can be viewed in your desktop browser, so if you can you may want to consider using the wikitext editor of the mobile site.

You'll need the TemplateStyles extension deployed on your wiki. You can see if it's installed on your wiki by visiting Special:Version. If it's not for whatever reason please request it.

Known problems are listed below:

1. Stop using tables

If your main page uses table's in any way, please remove them. There are many tutorials on the web for doing column layouts. Please put "responsive column layout" into your favorite search engine. If this is confusing, you'll probably want to seek help from a CSS expert!

[DivTable converter https://divtable.com/converter/] provides a way for you to convert a table HTML to divs. You should aim to put the associated CSS in [[MediaWiki:Common.css]. This act alone should improve your rendering in mobile greatly.

2. Review any inline styles

Search for any instances of styles which make use of the css properties " ", " ", " " or " "

For example: Move these into a TemplateStyle. Use a class and move the css declaration to css. Example CSS: e.g. Example - note the pre tag is only included for example purposes - this should be put into a TemplateStyle.

3. Reskin for mobile

With the above steps applied your page should look no different on a desktop browser, but as you shrink the screen (horizontal width) to under 720px - the threshold you introduced in step 2 the styles should disappear. You'll want to add new styles (outside the media query you introduced in step 3). These styles will apply to mobile devices and will be overridden.

If there is any content in the page that you do not want to render in the mobile skin you should add the class "nomobile". e.g.

4. Apply the new template

Copy and paste the sandbox page into your Main page. Refresh the browser and verify that it works as expected on both mobile and desktop.

5. Make a site request to turn off main page special casing

If your site is now no longer using the special page casing and your site appears in this config:

You'll want to let a Wikimedia site admin know that you are ready for main page special casing to be turned off. File a Phabricator ticket using this link that links to this web page and lists your wiki.

You'll be able to tell when this has been successful if you've been using the  prefixes as suddenly other content will display on your mobile site!

6. Remove any mobile specific ids.

i.e. any instance of the following: These are not necessary any more. Previously these would choose which content to show on mobile, but now you have a new mobile first responsive design and have disabled main they will be ignored.

e.g. This example