Tomasz is right but it still a mess as many homepages do not currently show
anything as a result of the special casing that goes on for the main page.

Please see (and contribute to) this thread where I am trying to gain some
momentum to resolve this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg00273.html

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Tomasz Finc <tf...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
> <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> > However, the real problem with the current approach is that it assumes
> > that there are "featured article" and "in the news" sections in the
> > main pages in all languages, and this is wrong. Some languages put
> > other content under these selectors. It's a hack, but that's how it
> > is.
>
> No it doesn't. You can add whatever section you want. Just add an
> "mf-foobar" and we'll show it. The current approach has nothing to do
> with specific main page sections and you can highlight whatever you
> want. Seriously, try it ... anything with an "mf-" will be shown.
>
> If the core issue is that we want to show non TFA and ITN then you can
> already do it. I'm not seeing any issue with that.
>
> if the issue is that people are not liking *how* to surface the
> sections that they want on mobile then that is a different discussion.
>
> --tomasz
>
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