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Jamie Hutber
Jamie Hutber

Reputation: 28096

How to enable Mobile view for site in Mediawiki?

I believe I have followed everything from: Extension:MobileFrontend

I am wondering if its my export that I did from wikipedia that is messing with my mobile view.

http://www.gwart.co.uk/

I have version 1.33.0 installed with the following in my localSettings.php

wfLoadExtension( 'MobileFrontend' );

$wgMFAutodetectMobileView = true;

wfLoadSkin( 'Vector' );

$wgMFDefaultSkinClass = 'SkinVector'; // use Vector skin

I can now see a button at the bottom of the page which says Mobile Though clicking this, does redirect the page. I would expect this view to automatically change depending on screen size.

Regardless if I do click this and change view, nothing really changes in terms of viewing, it is still unfriendly for mobile users.

Have I missed a step in setting up the mobile view correctly?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1659

Answers (2)

Andy Johnson
Andy Johnson

Reputation: 693

You can install and enable extension Mobile Front-end https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend

It will automatically detect the mobile devices and switch the view to a mobile view. So now you can use skin of your choice for the desktop and laptops and for mobile devices, MobileFrontEnd will automatically kick-in Hope this helps

Upvotes: 0

Xxmarijnw
Xxmarijnw

Reputation: 304

If you want to use Vector as a mobile skin, you need to add the following to your LocalSettings.php file:

$wgVectorResponsive = true;

Please note that you need to be on MediaWiki 1.26 or later and that Vector "responsive mode" is not actively maintained. I recommend you install and configure MinervaNeue (default mobile skin for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects):

wfLoadSkin( 'MinervaNeue' );
$wgMFDefaultSkinClass = 'SkinMinerva';

Upvotes: 1

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