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I understand all of that and still disagree with the claim that mobile readers should never share a Wikipedia URL containing on the "m." subdomain. I simply do not agree. They got to that URL probably without every explicitly asking for a mobile-specific page, so they ought to freely share that URL. Moreover, this "mobile" design is in fact more responsive than the "desktop" design, and some people might even prefer…
No one is saying that mobile readers shouldn't ever share a URL on the "m." subdomain (despite them, quite literally, saying that). The criticism is that Wikipedia even has 2 separate resources for the same article and that the default behavior on "m." is to share the mobile resource while that's not the same case for the "en." subdomain (or other language variants). The only thing being said is that it should be con…
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#341I agree with criticism of Wikipedia’s behavior. I disagree that ordinary visitors to the website should need to or indeed should manually manipulate the URL of the page they’re on in order to share it with someone else. If you’re sharing the URL directly with a specific person who you know feels strongly about which URL they received, then sure, do it to be nice. But I disagree with prescribing that one URL should be the default (when it’s not even clear which one it should be!) and complaining about other people not respecting your preferred default URL.