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Google Code-in 2013 Wikimedia

MobileFrontend: URL to page section is lost after reloading in alpha mode

completed by: Mateusz Maćkowski

mentors: Jon Robson

The MobileFrontend extension has this problem that you could fix:

In experimental mode (alpha), if you go to a mobile URL that includesa page section e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Mikolo-Kinzonzi#Political_career
and then you refresh, the page reloads without the hash link to the specific section.

Read this bug report through for more information:
Bug 57329 - Alpha: Hash swallowed

Please ask any questions in the bug report, where more community contributors will might able to help.

Students are required to read Wikimedia's general instructions first. Patches should be submitted to Gerrit and reference the bug report in the commit message. Ideally the solution should be added to the alpha mode of the MobileFrontend extension to allow testing and quicker merging, repository maintainers can help with this during the code review process.