Forum:Mobile namespace reply

In response to Forum:Changes to perfect mobile look on Icebreaker iOS pages

I just got the response from the message I sent to Wikia five days ago. Unfortunately, they do not wish to create a Mobile namespace for us. From the looks of the message, it seems as though they don't want any duplicate pages that are supposedly "mobile compatible" because that is the mobile team's job.

Uh well, something like that. Here's what the reply was:

Hello,

Thanks for contacting Wikia. I talked this over with our mobile team, and we all agreed that this is not something we can reccomend.

We are working on developing our mobile front that takes the wiki's content and automagically improves the appearance on mobile devices. We aren't as far along as we would like, but this is definitely something we will keep perfecting.

In the meantime, creating a "Mobile" namespace would lead to unnecessarily duplicated content., That will definitely cause the wikia to take a serious hit on the SEO front and will make it difficult to maintain as more and more edits are made. Ultimately, the project would do more harm than good in our team's estimation.

Happy Editing,

You can decide whether or not you want to reply. Just link this forum thread so that they know you're replying for me on behalf of the wiki. I would suggest just leaving the articles as they are, and reporting any compatibility bugs to Wikia rather than trying to compensate with duplicate articles. You may want to re-discuss this issue. 23:03, September 2, 2013 (UTC)