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Remove special treatment of missing pages
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Jdlrobson-WMF
Oct 7 2025, 8:48 PM
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Sneha
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Description

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

  • Add a page that doesn't exist to the reading list

What happens?:

  • The page has an alert icon

Screenshot 2025-10-07 at 2.16.54 PM.png (678×424 px, 20 KB)

What should have happened instead?:

Screenshot 2025-10-07 at 2.16.09 PM.png (700×724 px, 41 KB)

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

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

Requirement

Scope: ReadingLists (desktop + mobile).

  • Pages that do not exist (redlinks) in the Reading List should display a placeholder icon instead of an alert icon.
  • No special styling or alert indicators should be shown for missing pages.
  • The Reading List layout must remain consistent between existing and missing pages.

BDD

Feature: Display placeholder icon for missing pages in Reading List

Scenario: Missing page added to Reading List
  Given I add a non-existent page to my Reading List
  When the page appears in the list
  Then it displays a placeholder icon instead of an alert icon
  And the layout matches that of other Reading List entries

Test Steps

Test Case 1: Missing page placeholder icon

  1. Add a non-existent page (redlink) to your Reading List.
  2. Open Special:ReadingLists.
  3. AC1: The missing page displays a placeholder icon instead of an alert icon.
  4. AC2: Layout and spacing are consistent with other Reading List items.

QA Results - Beta

ACStatusDetails
1✅T406652#11287172
2✅T406652#11287172

QA Results - Prod

ACStatusDetails
1✅T406652#11287175
2✅T406652#11287175

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:
SubjectAuthorRepoBranchLines +/-
Remove special treatment for missing pagesJdlrobsonmediawiki/extensions/ReadingListsmaster+2 -5
Customize query in gerrit

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Event Timeline

Jdlrobson-WMF created this task.Oct 7 2025, 8:48 PM
Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptOct 7 2025, 8:48 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Oct 7 2025, 8:49 PM

Change #1194295 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Jdlrobson):

[mediawiki/extensions/ReadingLists@master] Remove special treatment for missing pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1194295

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Oct 7 2025, 8:49 PM
Jdlrobson-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Oct 7 2025, 9:01 PM
Jdlrobson-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 7 2025, 9:17 PM
Volker_E assigned this task to Jdlrobson-WMF.Oct 7 2025, 9:41 PM
Volker_E mentioned this in T406523: Don't show placeholder images in ReadingList cards.
Volker_E set the point value for this task to 1.
Volker_E edited projects, added: Reader Experience Team (REx Sprint 7 [Q2 Oct 7-Oct 21 '25]); removed: Reader Experience Team.
Volker_E moved this task from Ready to Sign-off on the Reader Experience Team (REx Sprint 7 [Q2 Oct 7-Oct 21 '25]) board.Oct 7 2025, 9:43 PM
Jdlrobson-WMF added a project: FY252627 Reading Lists.Oct 7 2025, 9:48 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Oct 7 2025, 9:53 PM

Change #1194295 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ReadingLists@master] Remove special treatment for missing pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1194295

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.23; 2025-10-14).Oct 7 2025, 10:00 PM
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SToyofuku-WMF removed Jdlrobson-WMF as the assignee of this task.Oct 8 2025, 2:28 PM
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Assuming someone else will sign this off as Jon wrote the patch

Jdlrobson-WMF moved this task from Incoming to Phase 1 (Desktop reading list A/B experiment) on the FY252627 Reading Lists board.Oct 15 2025, 9:36 PM
Edtadros mentioned this in T407535: Verify 1.45.0-wmf.23 deployment.Oct 16 2025, 5:56 PM
Edtadros subscribed.Oct 18 2025, 2:33 AM

Test Result - Beta

Status: ✅ PASS
Environment: beta
OS: macOS Tahoe 26.x
Browser: Chrome Canary (latest as of test date)
Device: MS
Emulated Device: NA

Test Case 1: Missing page placeholder icon

  1. Add a non-existent page (redlink) to your Reading List.
  2. Open Special:ReadingLists.
  3. ✅ AC1: The missing page displays a placeholder icon instead of an alert icon.
  4. ✅ AC2: Layout and spacing are consistent with other Reading List items.

I'm assuming that based on T406523, there should be no placeholder image.

screenshot 285.png (1,605×819 px, 162 KB)

Edtadros added a comment.Oct 18 2025, 2:34 AM

Test Result - Prod

Status: ✅ PASS
Environment: testwiki
OS: macOS Tahoe 26.x
Browser: Chrome Canary (latest as of test date)
Device: MS
Emulated Device: NA

Test Case 1: Missing page placeholder icon

  1. Add a non-existent page (redlink) to your Reading List.
  2. Open Special:ReadingLists.
  3. ✅ AC1: The missing page displays a placeholder icon instead of an alert icon.
  4. ✅ AC2: Layout and spacing are consistent with other Reading List items.

I'm assuming that based on T406523, there should be no placeholder image.

screenshot 284.png (1,597×1,115 px, 317 KB)

Edtadros added a project: Verified.Oct 18 2025, 2:35 AM
Edtadros updated the task description. (Show Details)
HFan-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Oct 20 2025, 11:16 PM
HFan-WMF claimed this task.
HFan-WMF added subscribers: Sneha, HFan-WMF.

Currently, as the expected product behavior is that we don't display either a placeholder image nor an alert icon, this can be resolved for now. Although, @Sneha do we have a point of view for eventual reading list behavior, do we want to let users know if an article they've saved no longer exists?

Sneha added a comment.Oct 21 2025, 1:18 PM

@HFan-WMF we have a separate ticket filed for that T404791

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