[hewiki-wmf.17] Growth-homepage-banner displays blank due to transcluded empty MediaWiki message
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	Etonkovidova
	Aug 12 2024, 9:34 PM

Description

On hewiki wmf.17 go Special:Homepage - the banner (Growth-homepage-banner) is displayed empty:

The page is displayed empty - MediaWiki:Growth-homepage-banner - but it has {{מדיה ויקי:Anonnotice}} ({{Media Wiki:Anonnotice}}).
Media Wiki:Anonnotice was blanked (see this).

What should happen:

when Growth-homepage-banner is empty or contains references to deleted or empty messages/templates etc, the empty banner should not be present on Special:Homepage.

Notes:

I checked in betalabs
- simple templates and MediaWiki transcluded messages would be displayed correctly onon MediaWiki:Growth-homepage-banner
- non-existing templates/MediaWiki messages transcluded in MediaWiki:Growth-homepage-banner would be presented as red links

Steps to reproduce in betalabs:

On MediaWiki:Growth-homepage-banner add the following: {{MediaWiki:Nonexistent}}
Create MediaWiki:Nonexistent and add some content
the content of MediaWiki:Nonexistent will be perfectly displayed in the banner
remove the content of MediaWiki:Nonexistent
Growth-homepage-banner will be displayed blank

Mentioned Here: T360485: [EPIC] Newcomer homepage: Community updates module (FY23/24 WE1.3 / FY24/25 SDS2.1.3)

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Interesting!
Given that we will replace this banner in the future with the Community Updates module T360485: [EPIC] Newcomer homepage: Community updates module (FY23/24 WE1.3 / FY24/25 SDS2.1.3) , we probably don't want to spend too much time on this.

Would and edit to remove {{מדיה ויקי:Anonnotice}} from the MediaWiki:Growth-homepage-banner fix this?

In T372358#10065536, @KStoller-WMF wrote:

Would and edit to remove {{מדיה ויקי:Anonnotice}} from the MediaWiki:Growth-homepage-banner fix this?

Yes, blanking or deleting MediaWiki:Growth-homepage-banner should be enough.

I contacted the user.

Not getting any answer, I blanked the page. The banner is not shown anymore.

In T372358#10113625, @Trizek-WMF wrote:

Not getting any answer, I blanked the page. The banner is not shown anymore.

Thx, @Trizek-WMF! The task is closed.

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