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Page footer should be full horizontal width, as it is part of the site and not the content
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Bottom of the sites (where license and privacy policy resides) are not full width as the top. The content has been reduced to a fixed with, but the site content should be full width.

Should it be full width, it not part of the content.

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Aklapper renamed this task from Bottom is not full width, so it is visually part of the content, not the site to Page footer should be full horizontal width, as it is part of the site and not the content.Oct 15 2021, 10:01 AM
Jdlrobson renamed this task from Page footer should be full horizontal width, as it is part of the site and not the content to Feature request: Page footer should be full horizontal width, as it is part of the site and not the content.Oct 15 2021, 10:25 PM
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Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Bug Report" to "Feature Request".Oct 17 2021, 3:07 PM

Looking at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annotated_Wikipedia_Vector_interface_(logged-out).png , when reading a short article (short enough that the vertical space needed by the entire sidebar is higher than the vertical space needed by the article), I'd need to get the idea to scroll down and pass quite some white space, in order to e.g. see legal information in the footer.

ovasileva triaged this task as Medium priority.May 5 2022, 5:18 PM

Change 802662 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Jdlrobson):

[mediawiki/skins/Vector@master] Make footer take up full width

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/802662

Jdlrobson renamed this task from Feature request: Page footer should be full horizontal width, as it is part of the site and not the content to Page footer should be full horizontal width, as it is part of the site and not the content.Jun 2 2022, 10:51 PM

Change 802662 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/skins/Vector@master] Make footer take up full width

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/802662

@Jdlrobson looking mostly good. there seems to be a bug where if I don't have the sidebar open the footer is hidden once I get down to 1000px wide:

sidebar opensidebar closed
Screen Shot 2022-06-13 at 12.42.11 PM.png (430×795 px, 96 KB)
Screen Shot 2022-06-13 at 12.41.53 PM.png (432×796 px, 127 KB)

Change 805232 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Jdlrobson):

[mediawiki/skins/Vector@master] Don't hide footer < 1000px when sidebar closed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/805232

Change 805232 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/skins/Vector@master] Layout: Don't hide footer < 1000px when sidebar closed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/805232

Can skip QA as the grid will be QAed in T303484.

The design review link is:
https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein?vectorgrid=1
For now we are just checking the footer behaviour.

Please move to needs more review or sign off aft.

Seems nice. Once we have this, I think that the problem with sitenotice and globalnotice should also be reviewed, as this is not part of the page content, but of the site: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293390

Jdlrobson raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.Jul 6 2022, 4:38 PM

(This can now be design reviewed on the beta cluster). We're targeting a deploy date of the Monday 18th.

Good change! And now... should we think about a really interesting footer? Most of the websites have it with a different background color, and we could have there columns with extra information (more visible copyright, sister projects, some of the buttons that are going to disappear from the sidebar...