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[mobile] Help panel button is displayed on Notifications overlay
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue:

What happens?:

Screenshot 2025-06-25 at 9.33.38 PM.png (1×788 px, 210 KB)

  • click on Search - the Help button is also will be displayed

Screenshot 2025-06-25 at 9.44.47 PM.png (1×774 px, 56 KB)

What should have happened instead?:

  • if you click on Notification icons or the Search field not from an article with SE, the Help button wouldn't be displayed.
  • Having the Help button on pages where it's not supposed to be, might be confusing for users.

Software version: wmf.6

Other information:

  • the issue (the Help button is "stuck" and gets displayed on the overlays, seems to be isolated to the cases described above.

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Michael triaged this task as High priority.Jul 21 2025, 2:59 PM

Change #1172624 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sergio Gimeno; author: Sergio Gimeno):

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] fix(HelpPanel): temporary fix for z-index overlap issues

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1172624

Change #1172624 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] fix(HelpPanel): temporary fix for z-index overlap issues

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1172624

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