Mobile compatibility, worth it or not?

[Tony]

I see there are a couple of extensions for MediaWiki that would make it more mobile device friendly (for those of us with Android/iPhones):

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileSkin
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileDetect

...but obviously bit of a hassle to install.

Is it worth doing?

[Tony]

I see the forum already can work with mobile devices:

http://www.biopowered.co.uk/forum/index.php?imode

[Julian]

No advantage to me personally, it's tecnowalage from a different planet!  But probably best to move with the times even if I don't.

Presumably it's a "once and for all" add on, so if you can do it without too much hassle, I'd say go for it.

[Tony]

It's definitely a once-only thing - it looks like Wikipedia does it differently, but it's even more complicated; from what I can tell these extensions "reskin" the wiki in a mobile device friendly way, which isn't *too* complicated but will still require some head scratching