Not switching to mobile version by default on smartphone
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	Capankajsmilyo
	May 23 2020, 1:27 PM

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Earlier, it redirected to m.wikipedia whenever we opened any wikipedia page on smartphone unless desktop version was opted for. Now it just shows whichever we are looking unaffected by our choice of desktop/mobile version in browser.

When you open wikipedia.org from mobile chrome browser, it opens the following page

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This even when browser setting was not set to desktop version. See

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In case of mobile version, it should have redirected to m.wikipedia.org and should have opened this

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Further, switching to and from desktop version doesn't change url between m.wikipedia.org and wikipedia.org, which it should have
See this is desktop version, even when url was m.wikipedia.org

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Mentioned Here: T60425: Mobile site does not automatically redirect to desktop version (and not possible to use browser "use desktop view")

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Capankajsmilyo created this task.May 23 2020, 1:27 PM

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Reedy added projects: Mobile, MobileFrontend.May 23 2020, 1:29 PM

At the bottom of the page, you can toggle between desktop or mobile view, see if that helps. I think this used to be a recurring issue with MobileFrontend before? But I can't be too sure.

Hi @Capankajsmilyo, thanks for taking the time to report this! Unfortunately this Wikimedia Phabricator task lacks some information.
If you have time and can still reproduce the situation: Please add a more complete description to this task. That should be

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Capankajsmilyo updated the task description. (Show Details)May 23 2020, 4:49 PM

When you clear your cookies for the site does this problem go away?

This even when browser setting was not set to desktop version.

Yeh this is a separate bug. The "use desktop" directive doesn't work with our setup. That just turns off media queries.

Jdlrobson moved this task from Needs triage to MobileFrontend specific on the Mobile board.May 29 2020, 3:01 PM

In T253449#6166097, @Jdlrobson wrote:

When you clear your cookies for the site does this problem go away?

@Capankajsmilyo: Could you please answer the last comment? Thanks in advance!

Unfortunately closing this Phabricator task as no further information has been provided.

@Capankajsmilyo: After you have provided the information asked for and if this still happens, please set the status of this task back to "Open" via the Add Action... → Change Status dropdown. Thanks!

Note: this is likely the longstanding bug T60425 which this would be a duplicate of.

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