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Design improvement: Minerva shows a warning that Wikipedia is made by people like you
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue

Go to the mobile version of Special:CreateAccount, such as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount or https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Crear_una_cuenta

Related task:
T87261: Watermark and no default message not shown in alpha version of login form

What happens?:

There is a warning saying "Wikipedia is made by people like you.", which is not an issue. The style makes it think there is an error (unavailable username, account blocked...) but it is not.
The warning sign makes it look like a warning, the html style says it is a warning. But that text is not one of a warning. Not even the second line of the warning, "Register to contribute", is suitable to be categorised as a warning.

The "Wikipedia is made by people like you." text appears already (with slightly different words) on T284740, but showing it as a warning does not appear on any mockup there.

I would expect a text like this to appear with a completely different style (e.g. a bulb, a flower, a book... ?). Not styled as an error.

enwiki.png (700×990 px, 113 KB)

eswiki.png (667×849 px, 77 KB)

Acceptance Criteria:
  • Consider technical limitations and feedback from the Design Systems Team
  • Design an improved version of this message, which should not be styled as a warning or error.

Event Timeline

This was addded in T87261, which asked for a gray box.

Agree this should not be styled as a warning and per @Snaevar the last time this was changed was to use the notice or neutral message styling with pale grey background. There is opportunity to improve to be more encouraging sign up styling and message tone (similar to work done on T284740), but minimum should no longer use warning style.

The notice system only supports warnings and errors. Wouldn't be hard to add something else, but then saying that Wikipedia was made by people like you isn't really a notice in the first place. It should probably be converted to use the SpecialCreateAccountBenefits hook, which also gives more freedom over formatting and content.

The notice system only supports warnings and errors. Wouldn't be hard to add something else, but then saying that Wikipedia was made by people like you isn't really a notice in the first place. It should probably be converted to use the SpecialCreateAccountBenefits hook, which also gives more freedom over formatting and content.

That makes sense to me. If we go down this path @JFernandez-WMF from Growth-Team can provide design to be consistent with the account benefits text in T284740.

Etonkovidova subscribed.

Note: The issue is reproducible on mobile

  • when Special:CreateAccount is accessed by a non-logged user

Screen Shot 2024-04-25 at 4.14.41 PM.png (1×810 px, 137 KB)

  • when a user is on Special:UserLogin

Screen Shot 2024-04-25 at 4.17.07 PM.png (1×816 px, 139 KB)

KStoller-WMF renamed this task from Minerva shows a warning that Wikipedia is made by people like you to Design improvement: Minerva shows a warning that Wikipedia is made by people like you.Fri, Apr 26, 4:19 PM
KStoller-WMF assigned this task to JFernandez-WMF.
KStoller-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)