bingle-admin wrote:

Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/1331

This is actually by design... although we should certainly review.

• Certain desktop pages do not exist in mobile and vice versa. e.g. Special:Uploads
• In the case of the Watchlist the page is different.
• This would require design as the existing mobile special pages do not have a footer.

Thus marking as an enhancement and adding design keyword as this is currently not actionable.

bingle-admin wrote:

Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/1339

Very annoying thing. I either view and edit from mobile via desktop and when I go to "Special:Watchlist" at the begin of the work I need to click on random link to switch view to normal - wasting of not free traffic.

This is being addressed as part of a special page redesign. These are available in beta.

Assigned to whom? You, Jon? The whole team?

Assigned attention not really any particular person. A fix is undergoing testing pending which this issue will be resolved. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby?mobileaction=beta or opt into the beta via Special:MobileOptions

• Bug 62436 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Change 127194 had a related patch set uploaded by Jdlrobson:
Push search bar on special pages to stable

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/127194