This task represents Rollout Phase #3 of RFC: Mobile domain sunsetting, and is part of WE6.4.4 (FY25-26 Q1), as tracked by the parent task T214998: RFC: Serve mobile and desktop variants through the same URL (unified mobile routing).
Process
As per the research in T401595#1111362, to enable the unified mobile routing on a wiki:
- Add wiki ID to $wmgUseMdotRouting in wmf-config and set it to false.
- Example: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/1184117/
- At this point, canonical responses will stop advertising m-dot URLs via <link rel=alternate> and "Mobile view" and "Desktop view" opt-in links start using cookies via the canonical domain. General mobile traffic unchanged.
- Add domain name to list of pilot wikis in Varnish that disable mobile_redirect.
Traffic numbers
For more details, refer to T405429.
| Date | Wikis | Mobile pageviews [1] | Unified mobile pageviews [2] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Sep | mediawiki.org, wikitech, officewiki, testwiki | +35K/day | 0.0% |
| 17 Sep | ca.wikipedia.org, he.wikipedia.org | ||
| 17 Sep | it.wikipedia.org | +10M/day | |
| 18 Sep | fa.wikipedia.org, meta.wikimedia.org | 6.3% (~10.5M/day) | |
| 22 Sep | Wikinews | +0.2M/day | |
| 23 Sep | Wikibooks, Wikiquote | +1M/day | |
| 24 Sep | Wikivoyage, Wikiversity | +0.5M/day | 6.9% |
| 29 Sep | wikimedia.org wikis (except Commons) | +0.5M/day | |
| 30 Sep | Wikisource | +1M/day | |
| 30 Sep | Wiktionary | +3M/day | |
| 30 Sep | Wikidata | +0.5/day | |
| 1 Oct | Commons | +2M/day | |
| 1 Oct | id.wikipedia.org, fr.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org | +27M/day | |
| 1 Oct | es.wikipedia.org, ru.wikipedia.org, ja.wikipedia.org | +51M/day | 38% |
| 2-3 Oct | Reserved for T405931 | .. | .. |
| 7 Oct | remaining Wikipedias (except English) | +65M/day (breakdown) | |
| 8 Oct | en.wikipedia.org | +114M/day | 99.5% |
[1]: Typical pageviews sum per day for agent_type=user AND access_method=mobile, via Turnilo.
[2]: Percentage so far of mobile pageviews (vs mobile_redirect), via T405429.
Scope
Loosely based on train groups, and pre-existing wikitech-ambassador/canary relationships (wikitech:Deployments/Train#Groups).
- 1-4 September (batch 1):
- T401595: Beta Cluster, https://test.wikipedia.org, https://test.wikidata.org, https://wikitech.wikimedia.org, and https://office.wikimedia.org
- Enable on https://www.mediawiki.org
- 15-18 September (batch 2):
- Enable on https://ca.wikipedia.org
- Enable on https://he.wikipedia.org
- Enable on https://it.wikipedia.org
- Enable on https://fa.wikipedia.org
- Enable on https://meta.wikimedia.org
- 22-25 September (batch 3):
- Enable on Wikinews, including https://en.wikinews.org
- Enable on Wikibooks, including https://en.wikibooks.org
- Enable on Wikiquote, including https://en.wikiquote.org
- Enable on Wikivoyage, including https://en.wikivoyage.org
- Enable on Wikiversity, including https://en.wikiversity.org
- 29 Sep - 3 Oct (batch 4):
- Enable on wikimedia.org wikis including https://incubator.wikimedia.org, https://species.wikimedia.org, and https://login.wikimedia.org (except Wikimedia Commons)
- Enable on Wikisource, including https://en.wikisource.org
- Enable on Wiktionary, including https://en.wiktionary.org
- Enable on Wikidata, https://www.wikidata.org
- Enable on Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org
- Enable on id.wikipedia.org, fr.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org
- Enable on es.wikipedia.org, ru.wikipedia.org, ja.wikipedia.org
- 7-9 October (batch 5):
- Enable on remaining Wikipedias, except https://en.wikipedia.org
- Enable on https://en.wikipedia.org
Audits:
- Before rollout: Announcement § Example JavaScript (catalog of fixed gadgets and outreach)
- Wikinews. — 23 Sep, T403510#11207686
- Wikibooks. — 25 Sep, T403510#11223546
- wikimedia.org wikis. — 26 Sep, T152882
- Wikiquote. T403510#11245411
- Wikivoyage. T403510#11288290