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If possible, when submitting please delete the "m." from "en.m.wikipedia.org". This will ensure people clicking from desktop will get the full Wikipedia website.
Interested users can find add-ons and scripts which do this automatically.

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Hate mobile Wikipedia (en.m.wikipedia.org)? Wikipedia has a script that auto redirects you to the desktop site (self.wikipedia)

submitted 1 year ago by Madbrad200 to c/wikipedia

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I recently discovered this:

Create an account
Go to your common.js page
Paste in the following and save:

mw.loader.load( "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:%C3%9Ejarkur/NeverUseMobileVersion.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript" );

See the script page for more info.

And voilà! Wikipedia will now redirect you to the desktop site if ever you land on the mobile version of Wikipedia, so long as you're logged in.

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[–] lazycouchpotato 2 points 1 year ago

Any idea why they don't automatically redirect you to the non-mobile version on desktop based on your user-agent string? They have no problem doing the inverse on mobile.