The button Take me to another page would go to Special:Random. I am not happy with that label. Suggestions are welcome!

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Three buttons might not work as well for languages with longer words:

Would the login button alone do, since Special:UserLogin has its own call to action for registering?

The button Take me to another page would go to Special:Random. I am not happy with that label. Suggestions are welcome!

How about just "Random page"? Also, here's a screenshot to show how the quiet button looks:

Change 622199 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tchanders; owner: Tchanders):
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Add call to action links in the block message drawer

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/622199

In T259775#6407514, @Tchanders wrote:

Three buttons might not work as well for languages with longer words:

Right I didn't consider the Details button. This might change in T261178.

Would the login button alone do, since Special:UserLogin has its own call to action for registering?

I guess that'd be okay for now, but we might have to change this.

How about just "Random page"? Also, here's a screenshot to show how the quiet button looks:

That is better, yeah. I am thinking though if we could include a verb since its a call to action.

Thanks for the screenshot, yep that looks right (again the Details link might go away)

Change 622199 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Add call to action links in the block message drawer

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/622199

@Tchanders The login button looks weird for me on https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org

Error in the console:

mediawiki.jqueryMsg: login: Parse error at position 0 in input: {{#ifeq: {{SERVERNAME}} | secure.wikimedia.org
| Secure log in
| Log in
}}

Looks fine on my local environment, though.

In T259775#6418854, @dom_walden wrote:

@Tchanders The login button looks weird for me on https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org

It looks like the message has been overridden on beta:
https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Login

Not sure if we should support that or not.

Change 623001 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tchanders; owner: Tchanders):
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Use custom messages for block message drawer button

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/623001

Thanks for looking into that @dbarratt. I think we should use custom messages to guard against this sort of thing - the latest patch does that.

I think we should use custom messages to guard against this sort of thing - the latest patch does that.

The downside of using new messages is you put more of a burden on translators meaning many smaller wikis won't benefit from translations. Many of the messages in MobileFrontend never get translated. On the other hand all those core messages are translated.

In T259775#6419170, @dbarratt wrote:

In T259775#6418854, @dom_walden wrote:

@Tchanders The login button looks weird for me on https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org

It looks like the message has been overridden on beta:
https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Login

Not sure if we should support that or not.

I'm not sure what the beta cluster modified that message https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Login?action=edit but I've reverted that change as that message is using syntax that's not supported on JS client. It would be much better to update the qqq code for the message in core to say that it shouldn't use such syntax. Updating the qqq message in core would make these messages more useful for everyone, so I'd urge you to consider that rather than rolling your own.

In T259775#6419210, @Tchanders wrote:

Thanks for looking into that @dbarratt. I think we should use custom messages to guard against this sort of thing - the latest patch does that.

Another way to handle this would be to send the parsed message to the client, but that doesn't seem like common practice. This seems like an edge case.

@Jdlrobson Thanks for fixing the message on beta. I guess a downside with reusing messages is that they might be for a range of use-cases, so it can be less flexible... But if translations are a problem in MobileFrontend, we can use the core messages instead for these buttons.

Change 623001 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Use custom messages for block message drawer button

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/623001

Login:

Random page:

OK:

Tested on https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org MediaWiki 1.36.0-alpha (0e9937c) 07:48, 31 August 2020.