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Deprecate the 'vform' HTMLForm display format
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Description

It uses mediawiki.ui styles, which have been deprecated since 1.41.

Its last use was the login/signup form, replaced by Codex in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/919361.

Use the 'codex' display format introduced in 1.41, or the 'ooui' format if you need form fields that are not supported by Codex yet.

vform login form (MW 1.40)Codex login form (MW 1.45)
Screenshot 2025-10-23 at 20-26-09 Log in - VanillaWiki.png (335×524 px, 31 KB)
Screenshot 2025-10-23 at 20-27-13 Log in - VanillaWiki.png (326×541 px, 31 KB)

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Change #1198112 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):

[mediawiki/core@master] Deprecate the 'vform' HTMLForm display format

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1198112

Change #1198112 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Deprecate the 'vform' HTMLForm display format

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1198112