Wikiversity talk:Mobile usability

Wikimedia's mobile project
Mobile access to Wikipedia is much better than for Wikiversity. The reason for this is Wikipedia's use of Wikimedia's mobile project overview: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Mobile, which is currently only available for Wikipedia. The WMF developer is willing and helpful, but currently unable to dedicate sufficient time. So technical help in this area would be appreciated.

Server Cluster?
I think the first thing that needs to be determined is if we can dedicate a server cluster to the job, it looks like Wikipedia uses a "Thin cluster" Do we have anyone at the server farm that has a free thin cluster that might be available for this use? The wikitech site names a couple of techs, are they also our techs for our servers? or do we need the people that did the Wikitech project to recommend someone from among our own techs?--Graeme E. Smith 02:07, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Support Software Stack
Once we have the cluster dedicated, the next step is to get our technicians to load the Support Software Stack, suggested by the project. This means that the cluster has to be offlined and turned into a sandbox cluster, until we get the bugs out of our particular implementation. Of interest here is whether there is a difference in the software stack that supports Wikipedia and the Software Stack that supports Wikiversity. It is entirely plausible that we are using different versions of the software, that are less likely to combine easily or that we have loaded different extensions and that there might be a problem with one or another extension.--Graeme E. Smith 02:07, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

New Portal_Design (2016)
There was a discussion at Colloquium/archives/January_2016 on redesigning the portals to work better on mobile devices. Below are some screenshots of the mobile rendering of Portal:Agriculture. A number of templates are also problematic. See Colloquium/archives/January_2016 --mikeu talk 20:49, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Google ranking and mobile-friendly
In addition to being difficult to use a site that is not mobile-friendly will get ranked lower by search engines like Google. This will prevent learners from discovering our content on smartphones, as described below. --mikeu talk 20:23, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Make sure your site's ready for mobile-friendly Google search results. Starting April 21, 2015, Google Search will be expanding its use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact in Google Search results. Users will find it easier to get relevant, high quality search results optimized for their devices.

Subpages
There are two subpages that are part of this project. The first is Mobile usability/Test page which is used for comparing how wiki markup renders on desktop vs. mobile views. The second is Mobile usability/Examples which document differences that contributors should be aware of. --mikeu talk 01:09, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

What are the problems with mobile access to Wikiversity?
Please report your experiences with as much detail as possible: