Special:GlobalContributions shows a misleading message
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	NicoScribe
	Jul 7 2025, 1:06 PM

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In Special:GlobalContributions/~2025-69529 (which is a temporary account) and Special:GlobalContributions/NicoScribe (which is a registered user), the page shows the message "Showing results [...] for all wikis where you have the right to view contributions.".

This text is misleading because everybody should be able to see the edits of a (public) temporary account or of a registered user.

This text is only useful for edits of IP, or of IP ranges. So, the misleading part of the message should be displayed only for edits of IP, or of IP ranges.

Reported in: Talk:Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts#Why Special:GlobalContributions is misleading?

Acceptance criteria

The message "Showing results from the last 90 days, for all wikis where you have the right to view contributions." should only be shown when IPs or IP ranges are the input
The message "Showing results from the last 90 days, for all wikis." should be displayed when a temporary or registered account name is input.

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	GlobalContributions: clearer subtitle when looking up by account name	mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser	master	+17 -7

Customize query in gerrit

Related Objects

Mentioned Here: T380639: Design consistent form error states in Special:GlobalContributions
T390644: "No results matching the query" messaging feels uncertain

Event Timeline

NicoScribe created this task.Jul 7 2025, 1:06 PM

Restricted Application added a project: Trust and Safety Product Team. · View Herald TranscriptJul 7 2025, 1:06 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald Transcript

A_smart_kitten edited projects, added CheckUser-GlobalContributions; removed CheckUser-UserInfoCard.Jul 7 2025, 1:15 PM

Dreamy_Jazz added a project: Temporary accounts.Jul 7 2025, 9:29 PM

Niharika triaged this task as Medium priority.Jul 8 2025, 9:26 AM

Niharika updated the task description. (Show Details)

Niharika edited projects, added Temporary accounts (Global wiki rollout); removed Temporary accounts.Jul 8 2025, 1:14 PM

STran moved this task from Backlog to Ready on the CheckUser-GlobalContributions board.Jul 8 2025, 3:35 PM

NicoScribe updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 8 2025, 9:09 PM

Dreamy_Jazz updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 8 2025, 9:10 PM

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Tchanders moved this task from To triage to Ready on the Temporary accounts (Global wiki rollout) board.Jul 15 2025, 5:23 PM

Tchanders added a project: Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Cannoli (July 7 - July 25)).Jul 16 2025, 2:10 PM

Tchanders moved this task from Priority Backlog to Ready on the Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Cannoli (July 7 - July 25)) board.

mszwarc claimed this task.Jul 17 2025, 11:56 AM

mszwarc moved this task from Ready to In Progress on the Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Cannoli (July 7 - July 25)) board.

Change #1171322 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mszwarc; author: Mszwarc):

[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@master] GlobalContributions: clearer subtitle when looking up by account name

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1171322

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 22 2025, 6:10 AM

mszwarc moved this task from In Progress to Needs Review on the Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Cannoli (July 7 - July 25)) board.Jul 22 2025, 6:22 AM

hector.arroyo moved this task from Needs Review to Needs QA on the Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Cannoli (July 7 - July 25)) board.Jul 22 2025, 7:56 AM

Change #1171322 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@master] GlobalContributions: clearer subtitle when looking up by account name

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1171322

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 22 2025, 8:31 AM

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.12; 2025-07-29).Jul 22 2025, 9:01 AM

Niharika moved this task from Ready to In progress on the Temporary accounts (Global wiki rollout) board.Jul 22 2025, 10:24 AM

STran moved this task from Ready to In Progress on the CheckUser-GlobalContributions board.Jul 23 2025, 7:17 AM

The new code has been implemented and is functioning as expected (The message Showing results from the last 90 days, for all wikis where you have the right to view contributions. will only be shown when IPs or IP ranges are the input... Also the message Showing results from the last 90 days, for all wikis. will only be shown when a temporary or registered account name is the input.).

Dreamy_Jazz closed this task as Resolved.Jul 28 2025, 11:59 AM

OKryva-WMF added a project: OKR-Work.Oct 3 2025, 3:50 PM

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