Change 580407 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tacsipacsi; owner: Tacsipacsi):
[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] This is not overdesigned, but at least it exists, and makes it possible to create articles on mobile.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/580407

Incoming code review request. I will have a screenshot of the proposed change shortly.

@alexhollender trust this is okay as an interim step?

In T219654#5977593, @Jdlrobson wrote:

@alexhollender trust this is okay as an interim step?

Looking good. Upon further consideration I think it would make sense to swap the order of the lines (both on desktop and mobile), e.g.
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Create the page "..." on this wiki

Thoughts on the case "no page found, search term found in other pages"? (see mock in description for context)

In T219654#5977647, @alexhollender wrote:

In T219654#5977593, @Jdlrobson wrote:

@alexhollender trust this is okay as an interim step?

Looking good. Upon further consideration I think it would make sense to swap the order of the lines (both on desktop and mobile), e.g.
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Create the page "..." on this wiki

Thoughts on the case "no page found, search term found in other pages"? (see mock in description for context)

We could likely achieve that using flex box and order but I think that greatly increases the scope. Suitable in another task or do you see fixing this as blocking? I'm happy to set said task up.

Forgot to add this part of the workflow which happens when you click the link:

Moving this to blocked for now, see my comment in T211006: Add red link experience to empty search results on Minerva (JS version)

I'm guessing this is stalled but on what task?

In T219654#6177276, @Jdlrobson wrote:

I'm guessing this is stalled but on what task?

On a decision on T211006: Add red link experience to empty search results on Minerva (JS version) - I think the last plan was to try to get some more info/data on how users would perceive the link to function

Change 580407 abandoned by Jdlrobson:
[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] Show red link at top of search results (non-JS version)

Reason:
Given https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211006#5979746 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211006#5021515 I recommend doing this in MediaWiki:Common.css as an interim state instead of doing this in Minerva.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/580407