It would be good to make Minerva be available on desktop either via a BetaFeature or a user preference.

For conciseness here's a few issues with the desktop Minerva skin:

1. section toggling doesn't get enabled

1b) as result there is no concept of a lead section, so 'this page has issues' captures every
issue in the page (there may be repeats)

2. You cannot edit anything other than the lead section (linked to above)
3. Special:Watchlist renders as normal desktop version - not sure what the correct behaviour here should be

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist?useskin=minerva

4. Special:History unavailable - waiting on one landing in core

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:History/Franklin_D._Roosevelt?useskin=minerva

5. Ugly preferences page rather than Special:MobileOptions (see

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Preferences&returnto=Special%3AHistory%2FFranklin+D.+Roosevelt&useskin=minerva

• however this will render more nicely with the MediaWiki UI patch

[1])

6. No uploads link in left menu (but that's soon disappearing from mobile too)
7. Talk page link renders but takes you to the standard talk page (non-issue?)
8. The footer is different (probably not an issue (?)
9. Common.css / targets set to mobile currently - many Gadgets are incompatible with the Minerva skin

[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/150635

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