Board Thread:New Features/@comment-1807002-20160119051815/@comment-24473195-20160119093450

Well, that would be like asking wikia the option to turn of Desktop view. Neither of those are likely to happen any time soon. Like it or not the number of mobile devices have increased throughout the world. Some people have two or three mobile devices, and do quite a lot of stuff on it. Even in poor countries and communities people can manage to buy or at least share a single mobile device. The default view consumes too much bandwidth and is simply a bad user experience.

The problem with mobile devices is two-fold.

1. MediaWiki wasn't designed with it in mind, since most of its core technology is from early 2000.

2. Most wiki editors and admins are completely and utterly oblivious to common web site design guidelines. They design for specific resolutions and ignore the rest, even on desktop devices.

While it is easy to try to blame wikia for everything, part of the problem comes from the editors themselves lacking knowledge of good design guidelines.

Anyway, you can check out the w:c:p:Portability Checklist for some ideas to improve the content and try to make it render properly.

P.S. The node count limit is a built in security feature to prevent excessively huge templates or very complicated pages that might not render at all. See and http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:516788.