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Under Vector 2022 on Wikimedia wikis, page width is different between Special:UserLogin and Special:CreateAccount. This doesn't occur for me locally.
| Wikimedia wikis |  |  |
| Local wiki |  |  |
I don't really care whether these pages use full or limited width, but they should use the same width, as otherwise switching between them is jarring.
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
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| Make wgVectorMaxWidthOptions specify Special:Userlogin correctly | operations/mediawiki-config | master | +1 -1 |
This behavior is controlled by wgVectorMaxWidthOptions. explaining why I get a different experience locally: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/mediawiki-config/+/dd6fa93b3ad44a5e7d88436273cce4aa47ea263e/wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php#2463
That definition looks like both Special:UserLogin and Special:CreateAccount are intended to use limited width, with a reference to T306834, but somehow this doesn't work for Special:UserLogin.
That config is processed by the Vector code here: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/skins/Vector/+/12923856ec9046a7b50f47019dd15ffe7045a011/includes/ConfigHelper.php#39
It looks like, for titles that correspond to special pages, they should be specified using the canonical special page name – which is actually Userlogin (with lowercase L) for Special:UserLogin: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/eeb5182f532845c012da388a92c8bc6956747c3f/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php#441 (this is annoying, but difficult to change now, as lots of code checks for it)
Change #1199074 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Make wgVectorMaxWidthOptions specify Special:Userlogin correctly
Change #1199074 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Make wgVectorMaxWidthOptions specify Special:Userlogin correctly
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-10-28T13:21:13Z] <derick@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1199074|Make wgVectorMaxWidthOptions specify Special:Userlogin correctly (T408447)]]
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-10-28T13:25:08Z] <derick@deploy2002> derick, matmarex: Backport for [[gerrit:1199074|Make wgVectorMaxWidthOptions specify Special:Userlogin correctly (T408447)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-10-28T13:32:10Z] <derick@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1199074|Make wgVectorMaxWidthOptions specify Special:Userlogin correctly (T408447)]] (duration: 10m 56s)