Noting that development can begin, but nothing should be merged until we've had the chance to get feedback from the communities (in progress).

Both Polish and Italian WP, users notified @Sannita that sister project results were locally disabled. There will be no changes to how sister projects work, However if we are moving the “this article doesn’t exist text to the right" we should just make sure that it will play nicely

So, Should I move it outside the InterwikiSearchResultSetWidget ?
Because I added it in the InterwikiSearchResultSetWidge

Change 808993 had a related patch set uploaded (by MarkThisDot; author: MarkThisDot):

[mediawiki/core@master] Change the placement of the "Article does not exist" message

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/808993

hi @CBogen, do you know why is this task in "Needs Design"?

I am just asking as there is an open patch currently, so wanted to make sure if that can go ahead, or if the design changes require work on it...

In T307467#8090156, @SimoneThisDot wrote:

hi @CBogen, do you know why is this task in "Needs Design"?

I am just asking as there is an open patch currently, so wanted to make sure if that can go ahead, or if the design changes require work on it...

Yes, thanks for checking. This one should not be merged - @Sneha is reconsidering the design based on some feedback from the community.

Recent findings that indicate that we should not move this message to the right column.

• There is some indication in the feedback we received from the community that moving to the right is not preferred as the message and links are important for entry point to create articles within the community.
• From what we currently know about # of users using this message, there are considerable number of people clicking on it. But we do not fully understand how the links are used, who clicks them (readers or editors) and what do users do after they click on those links. We do not know if leads to article creation.
• The recent data pulled by Bruno Scarone on Research team indicate that most people are accessing special:search from mobile rather than desktop. Mobile currently does not have the message. So the impact on readers may not be as much as we thought.
• From the design point view, after having some discussion with DS team on the new grid system for desktop, it is possible that we may want to evaluate the existence of right column in the future or redesign its purpose entirely. For that reason it is also best to not move the message to right at this point.
• Also from design point of view moving to the right can be wonky if the message is really long. Since it is controlled by community we may not have any control on how long the message may get.

New proposal

• Given all the reasons above it is best to keep the message position as it is i.e. above the results.
• The following changes are proposed to the message itself:
  • Update the link colours from red to blue. (It was recently discovered that, while the copy is controlled by the community, we are able to change the colours of the links.)
  • Update the search query (the missing article title) colour from red to grey. The concept of red links is more appropriate when a name of an article is already suggested. We cannot assume that the search query = name of the article, hence the colour should not be red.
  • Change the default message so at least a few communities who have not customized will get an improved message.

The above solutions will minimize the negative impact of the message for those searching on desktop (if not entirely solve the problem).

Future improvements
Get more data on how people are using those links and explore ways in which article creation can be encouraged by entirely redesigning the current approach.

From my conversations with various people I have discovered that creating an article through those red links through search is actually quite common way of creating an article - not just for editors but even organizers/event planners use it to create events on meta wiki, and is also a known method documented here for new editors who want to learn how to create page.

And so the updated new solution is to only update the links colours from red to blue. This would exclude the "search query" and that will need to continue to be red.

Change 826531 had a related patch set uploaded (by Simone Cuomo; author: Simone Cuomo):

[mediawiki/core@master] Update the "Article does not exist" message

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/826531

I have updated the messages now and they look as shown below:

{F35489656}

re: the following AC:

Change the colour of all links (except the missing article red link) to blue

according to @SimoneThisDot all links except the missing article red link are already blue, so no change should be needed. Please verify in QA.

Change 826531 abandoned by Simone Cuomo:

[mediawiki/core@master] Update the "Article does not exist" message

Reason:

All changes in this patch have been covered in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/824123/2/resources/src/mediawiki.special.search.styles.less

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/826531

In T307467#8184714, @SimoneThisDot wrote:

I have updated the messages now and they look as shown below:

{F35489656}

@SimoneThisDot - are the changes in production? Two patches on this task are either abandon or not merged. Below are the test results from enwiki wmf.27.

Tested on enwiki wmf.27
(1) Search terms - Catlettsbulg, Kentucky - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Catlettsbulg%2C+Kentucky&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1

mockup	from the comment above	enwiki wmf.27

The cases below are based on (1) search terms: Catlettsbulg, Kentucky. Then the links were clicked on the search results message in (1). I haven't tested the links in the messages on Special:Search before (unfortunately) - is it acceptable behavior?

(2) In (1) enwiki wmf.27 with search terms: Catlettsbulg, Kentucky ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Catlettsbulg%2C+Kentucky&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1) look at the link in Showing results for catlettsburg kentucky.

• Click on catlettsburg kentucky link (which is a blue link)
  
• Get redirected to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=catlettsburg+kentucky&fulltext=1&ns0=1 which presents a different message

(3) In (1) enwiki wmf.27 with search terms: Catlettsbulg, Kentucky ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Catlettsbulg%2C+Kentucky&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1) look at the link in No results found for Catlettsbulg, Kentucky.

• Click on Catlettsbulg, Kentucky (which is a blue link)

• Get redirected to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=Catlettsbulg%2C+Kentucky&fulltext=1&ns0=1&runsuggestion=0 with another message:

Hi @Etonkovidova ,

As Carly mentioned on the last comment, we have removed all other ACs from this story and left the one about the link colour. If you find any issue with redirects link or other functionality raise a bug as it is not related to this task as this task has not actually introduced any code change (all Patches have been merged with other tickets).

The purpose of this ticket is to just clarify if any of the changes that we recently did have affected the colour of the links as requested in the AC:

• Change the colour of all links (except the missing article red link) to blue.

Change 808993 abandoned by Matthias Mullie:

[mediawiki/core@master] Change the placement of the "Article does not exist" message

Reason:

Abandoning - since the last edit, there has been much discussion on phab, and the ticket is now already resolved. We should no longer need this.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/808993