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On mobile, SecurePoll link from desktop site leads to mobile site and prevents voting
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • On Ipad (15.6) and Chrome, and logged-in on Metawiki with an election-eligible user account,
  • On the 'desktop' version of the site, clicking on the link to vote: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/393
  • That sends me to the mobile version of the securepoll site: https://vote.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/1364
  • And on that page it refuses to allow voting. saying "You must log in to vote in this election - please try following the link from your Special:SecurePoll on your local Wikimedia site."
  • Clicking on the "desktop" button on the bottom of the page brings me to the actual voting page, which works fine/successfully.

What happens?:

  • Clicking to vote sends me from desktop version to mobile version.
  • Mobile site doesn't allow voting

What should have happened instead?:

  • Either keep me on the desktop version, and/or
  • Ensure the mobile version allows voting

Software version (skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

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Event Timeline

What happens if you tap the "please vote from Meta-Wiki" link?

What happens if you tap the "please vote from Meta-Wiki" link?

I just tried this myself - it sends you back to Meta-Wiki and puts you in something of a loop (you try to "jump" back to votewiki and it throws the same error).

It's not that you can't vote from the mobile site; you totally can, you just have to be jumping from the mobile version of Meta-Wiki. Not sure what causes the connection to be "broken" jumping from desktop to mobile.

jrbs renamed this task from on ipad, Securepoll desktop link for board election sends me to the mobile website, and mobile site doesn't allow voting. to On mobile, SecurePoll link from desktop site leads to mobile site and prevents voting.Sep 6 2022, 3:43 AM