Wikipedia switches between mobile & non-mobile site automagically.
I'm assuming the mobile flavour is a resource-lighter version that should load quicker. If you are using a mobile device (and/or on cellular data), it's nice to not take any detours - however small. And I'd expect a good % of users to be on a mobile device.
From a desktop/PC/whatever, it's probably a don't care.
TLDR; an attempt to feed WP link followers a 'lite' version first.
Well they certainly don’t need to make the website mobile friendly, but the logic here is a bit suspect. Kind of like saying that a bike shop has no reason to have space for customers to park their cars, no?
But in desktop everything will be far away, so it doesn't provide any advantage either. And hitting the targets that are visible will be faster on mobile.
There are practical reasons for it. My business website gets 98% mobile traffic. Pretty much anything I'll do about it, I'll do with mobile on mind. If the original design wasn't responsive by default, I don't think I'd even implement a different view for the desktop.
I think the point of this comment was to distinguish the interaction on desktop (hover) versus mobile (click).
Desktop users are used to hovering on stuff to see what happens. You can't do that on mobile so you have to do something else (click) which is kind of counter-intuitive on mobile (clicks are supposed to navigate).
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