@NickK Where is the message that you are talking about currently displayed? If you can add a screenshot to illustrate the problem, that would be very helpful.

@Niharika I've partially blocked my test account, so you can take a look at the message in the red box on the contributions page. We're proposing to change its look to something like this.

See also T246571

• Change the color of the notice from red to yellow (like we do for info messages).

This notice is already yellow - e.g. on itwiki, it looks like this:

The reason it displays red on enwiki is that the colour is overridden in Common.css:

/* Div based "warning" style fmbox messages. */
div.mw-warning-with-logexcerpt,
div.mw-lag-warn-high,
div.mw-cascadeprotectedwarning,
div#mw-protect-cascadeon,
div.titleblacklist-warning,
div.locked-warning {
	clear: both;
	margin: 0.2em 0;
	border: 1px solid #bb7070;
	background-color: #ffdbdb;
	padding: 0.25em 0.9em;
	box-sizing: border-box;
}

Change 580502 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tchanders; owner: Tchanders):
[mediawiki/core@master] SpecialContributions: Use a custom warning when partially blocked

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/580502

In T246293#5977854, @Tchanders wrote:

• Change the color of the notice from red to yellow (like we do for info messages).

This notice is already yellow - e.g. on itwiki, it looks like this:

The reason it displays red on enwiki is that the colour is overridden in Common.css:

/* Div based "warning" style fmbox messages. */
div.mw-warning-with-logexcerpt,
div.mw-lag-warn-high,
div.mw-cascadeprotectedwarning,
div#mw-protect-cascadeon,
div.titleblacklist-warning,
div.locked-warning {
	clear: both;
	margin: 0.2em 0;
	border: 1px solid #bb7070;
	background-color: #ffdbdb;
	padding: 0.25em 0.9em;
	box-sizing: border-box;
}

Thanks @Tchanders.
@Piramidion Based on the above it is likely that the color is overridden on ukwiki too. Can you check on that and ask someone who has rights to edit Common.css on ukwiki to make the change?

Yes, indeed, there seems to be a similar local setting, but I'm not sure if it corresponds to the message in question (I'll explain it below), and even if it does, this doesn't resolve the issue with the possibility to distinguish between the full and the partial blocks. Say, we want the warning for the full blocks to remain red, while for the partial ones to both display a different text message and have a different color styling. Is there a way we could possibly achieve this locally? I assume there's none, since the reasons mentioned by NickK: the same message and the same styling are being used for both types of blocks.

Meta-wiki uses the same red warning (example), but I don't see anything relevant on their common.css. So does MediaWiki.org (example), and so does Wikimedia Commons (example), and so does Wikidata (example), and we want ukwiki to remain consistent with those wikis.

@Piramidion Thanks for the examples. The debug tools confirm that the above snippet is where the colour override is coming from in all of those examples (I can elaborate more on this if you're interested).

The CSS won't always be added directly in the wiki's Common.css, e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css adds it via this import statement near the top:

@import "https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-enwp-boxes.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css";

What we could do is add a class name that differs depending on whether the block is partial or sitewide, allowing the local overrides to set specific colours.

@Tchanders thanks for the clarification, and yes, I think that a different class for partial blocks would be the best solution for this issue (provided that it also allows for a different text message, i. e. "this user is currently partially blocked" instead of "this user is currently blocked")

Change 580502 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] SpecialContributions: Use a custom warning when partially blocked

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/580502

Testing on https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org MediaWiki 1.35.0-alpha (5e1e15e) 07:47, 24 March 2020.

Message in Special:Contributions for various blocks:

Username partial:
This user is currently partially blocked. The latest block log entry is provided below for reference:
with a containing div element with class="mw-contributions-blocked-notice-partial".

Username sitewide:
This account is currently blocked. The latest block log entry is provided below for reference:
with div class="mw-contributions-blocked-notice"

Perhaps it is inconsistent to use user and account, but this can be changed by translators.

IP partial:
This IP address is currently partially blocked. The latest block log entry is provided below for reference:
with div class="mw-contributions-blocked-notice-partial"

IP sitewide:
This IP address is currently blocked. The latest block log entry is provided below for reference:
with div class="mw-contributions-blocked-notice"

Thanks @dom_walden.

@Piramidion I will keep this task open to confirm the change has been made per your request. Thanks.

@dom_walden, @Niharika Everything looks fine now, thanks! You may close this task as solved.

For those, who want to make the same adjustment in their local wikis (if those wikis use a custom red warning for full blocks), this is the code we (namely, @NickK) added to our common.css after the change arrived to ukwiki:

div.mw-contributions-blocked-notice-partial > .mw-warning-with-logexcerpt {
    clear: both;
    margin: 0.2em 0;
    border: 1px solid #fc3;
    background: #fef6e7;
    padding: 0.25em 0.9em;
}

Yes, I confirm that this was solved. Please also fix T246571 which also negatively affects the way we label partially blocked users.

In T246293#6008794, @NickK wrote:

Yes, I confirm that this was solved. Please also fix T246571 which also negatively affects the way we label partially blocked users.

Noted.