Long names cut off in drag-and-drop lozenges
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	dom_walden
	May 20 2025, 12:50 PM

Description

What is the problem?

A candidate with a name over about 24 Latin characters may find their names cut off in the drag-and-drop interface. There was one such candidate in the 2024 Board elections.

Environment

Browser: Firefox 128.
Wiki(s): https://vote.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org SecurePoll 3.0.0 (19e9dc4) 07:29, 20 May 2025.

Screenshots

names_cut_off_ltr.png (223×733 px, 17 KB)

names_cut_off_rtl.png (216×733 px, 17 KB)

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Fixed name truncation in the STV drag and drop widget	mediawiki/extensions/SecurePoll	master	+14 -14

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Related Objects

Mentioned In: T289388: Create a drag-drop solution for ranked choice voting
Mentioned Here: rESPO19e9dc46079f: Localisation updates from https://translatewiki.net.

Event Timeline

dom_walden created this task.May 20 2025, 12:50 PM

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dom_walden mentioned this in T289388: Create a drag-drop solution for ranked choice voting.May 20 2025, 12:57 PM

Amdrel changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Jun 3 2025, 9:50 PM

Amdrel claimed this task.

Amdrel moved this task from Backlog to Actively working on the MediaWiki-extensions-SecurePoll board.

Change #1153702 had a related patch set uploaded (by Amdrel; author: Amdrel):

[mediawiki/extensions/SecurePoll@master] Fixed name truncation in the STV drag and drop widget

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1153702

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 4 2025, 8:15 PM

Change #1153702 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/SecurePoll@master] Fixed name truncation in the STV drag and drop widget

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1153702

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 23 2025, 10:31 AM

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.8; 2025-07-01).Jun 24 2025, 3:02 PM

Tested. Works in the new STV voting interface.

OKryva-WMF added a project: Essential-Work.Oct 3 2025, 3:53 PM

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Long names cut off in drag-and-drop lozengesClosed, ResolvedPublicBUG REPORTActions