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Icon text labels should not be visible on mobile Special:EditWatchlist page
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

What happens?:

As discovered in T395634, the words "watching" "unwatch" appear when you click the watchlist button on the mobile special:EditWatchlist page

screenshot 3.mov.gif (1×1 px, 1 MB)

What should have happened instead?:

There should be no text label beside the icons when clicking them.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

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Jdrewniak created this task.Aug 14 2025, 10:22 PM
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Jdrewniak renamed this task from Watchlist text label shouldn't appear beside icon on mobile Special:EditWatchlist page to Icon text labels should not be visible on mobile Special:EditWatchlist page.Aug 14 2025, 10:23 PM
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Jdlrobson-WMF edited projects, added Reader Growth Team, MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend Special Pages); removed Reader Experience Team, MinervaNeue.Aug 14 2025, 10:32 PM
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This is actually MobileFrontend (e.g. Reader Growth)

However would be great if the experience team can help us get rid of that page as part of their deliverables for reading lists.

Jdlrobson-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Aug 27 2025, 4:17 PM
Jdlrobson-WMF added a project: Readers Essential Work 2025.
Jdlrobson-WMF moved this task from Backlog to The mobile EditWatchlist page is removed on the Readers Essential Work 2025 board.
Jdlrobson-WMF moved this task from Incoming/Inbox to Backlog on the Reader Growth Team board.Aug 28 2025, 2:53 PM
Jdlrobson-WMF moved this task from MobileFrontend Special Pages to Special:EditWatchlist on the MobileFrontend board.Sep 10 2025, 10:30 PM
Jdlrobson-WMF edited projects, added MobileFrontend (Special:EditWatchlist); removed MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend Special Pages).
Jdlrobson-WMF edited projects, added Reader Experience Team; removed Reader Growth Team.Nov 10 2025, 11:34 PM

After some back and forth given the reader experience team is working on reading list functionality which will make this code obsolete, they will maintain this feature going forward (more information in T403659: MobileFrontend should have an OWNERS.md).

My recommendation would be not to fix the bug and leave this be until it can be removed.

HFan-WMF moved this task from Incoming to Backlog on the Reader Experience Team board.Nov 18 2025, 9:36 PM
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