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After the changes made in T86865, which made the form a bit taller, the "Move page" button on Special:MovePage often appears below the fold (you have to scroll to see it).
At 1920x1080px (probably the most common desktop resolution), it usually just barely fits (the screenshot below has 3 checkboxes, but up to 6 can be displayed). At 1366x768px (very common low-end laptop resolution) you have to scroll.
I think the form hits a fairly reasonable balance between density and prettiness, but there is just a lot of text above it.
Two things I see that we could do:
Change 241654 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński):
Improve brevity of Special:MovePage form and its description
There is likely a reason for it, but perhaps that one column of checkboxes could be two columns to save some vertical space?
Change 241654 merged by jenkins-bot:
Improve brevity of Special:MovePage form and its description
The change has been made and you can see it on http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/. It will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis Tuesday-Thursday next week, with 1.27.0-wmf.2, according to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap.
It's an interesting idea… I wonder how many languages other than English would benefit (we couldn't really do it if the labels were even a bit longer, since it'd end up even worse with the label wrapping over two lines, and English tends to be a very terse language).
I'm not comfortable putting it into our code at the moment, but if you want to experiment yourself, the following user CSS seems to work to give you columns for checkboxes in that form.
body.mw-special-Movepage .oo-ui-fieldLayout-align-inline {
display: inline-block;
min-width: 50%;
height: 2.25em;
}Change 242535 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński):
Improve brevity of Special:MovePage form and its description
Change 242536 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński):
Improve brevity of Special:MovePage form and its description
Change 242535 merged by jenkins-bot:
Improve brevity of Special:MovePage form and its description
Change 242536 merged by jenkins-bot:
Improve brevity of Special:MovePage form and its description
I've had the change backported and deployed everywhere. @Josve05a, what do you think about the current state of the page?
I'm using a 1366 x 768 screen (my schools computer, which is a Lenovo 11e Chromebook) and the move-button still is below the field of the screen. (If I have the browser at 100%, I nomrally have it on 90%, and then it looks ok!)
body.mw-special-Movepage .oo-ui-fieldLayout-align-inline { display: inline-block; min-width: 50%; height: 2.25em; }
I filed T117762: There's still too much whitespace between FieldLayouts in a FieldsetLayout to think about this a bit more.
It might also help to use two columns for the help/warning text and the form.
We might need to use heading text and some iconography to get more attention to the text on the side. I can make some options if this idea is feasible and considered.