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.
"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."
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