"Over the past two months we unified the mobile and desktop domain for all wikis ( timeline). This means we no longer redirect mobile users to a separate domain while the page is loading. We completed the change on Wednesday 8 October after deploying to English Wikipedia. The mobile domains became dormant within 24 hours, which confirms that most mobile traffic arrived on Wikipedia via the standard domains and thus experienced a redirect until now."
"The year is 2008 and all sorts of websites large and small have a mobile subdomain. The BBC, IMDb, Facebook, and newspapers around the world all featured the iconic m-dot domain. For Wikipedia, a separate mobile domain made the mobile experiment low-risk to launch and avoided technical limitations. It became the default in 2011 by way of a redirect. Fast-forward seventeen years, and much has changed."
Mobile and desktop domains for all wikis were unified, eliminating redirects from standard domains to m-dot mobile domains. The change completed after deploying to English Wikipedia on Wednesday 8 October, and mobile domains became dormant within 24 hours. The m-dot approach originated in 2008 as a low-risk solution and became default in 2011 via redirect. Modern CDN capabilities removed prior technical constraints and enabled variable responses under a single URL. The unification achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load by serving mobile and desktop content from the same domain.
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