Investigate temp user banner in more skins
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	Tchanders
	Nov 27 2025, 5:19 PM

Description

Background

In Vector-22 and Minerva skins, temporary accounts see a banner at the top of the page containing helpful information including their name, links to further information and prompts to create an account:

More work is needed in order to enable this banner on more skins. For example, on Vector legacy it overlaps the top navigation elements:

However, it would be helpful to have this information available in more situations.

Investigation

Investigate how we could add the temporary user banner in more skins.

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	WIP Add inline temporary user banner to legacy skin	mediawiki/skins/Vector	master	+3 -0
	WIP Add inline option for the temp user banner	mediawiki/core	master	+14 -1

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Related Objects

Mentioned In: T409777: Should notifications work for temporary users on legacy Wikimedia skins?
Mentioned Here: T409777: Should notifications work for temporary users on legacy Wikimedia skins?

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Tchanders created this task.Nov 27 2025, 5:19 PM

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Change #1212200 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tchanders; author: Tchanders):

[mediawiki/core@master] WIP Add inline option for the temp user banner

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1212200

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 27 2025, 5:39 PM

Change #1212201 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tchanders; author: Tchanders):

[mediawiki/skins/Vector@master] WIP Add inline temporary user banner to legacy skin

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1212201

As discussed elsewhere, we could add the banner just above where the site notice is displayed, e.g.:

Vector legacy
Monobook

The patches above show how this could be done.

Moving to "Needs review" for review of the general approach. The patches are still WIP.

Izno added a project: MediaWiki-Core-Skin-Architecture.Nov 27 2025, 7:31 PM

Bugreporter updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 28 2025, 4:30 AM

Niharika mentioned this in T409777: Should notifications work for temporary users on legacy Wikimedia skins?.Nov 28 2025, 4:54 AM

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OKryva-WMF moved this task from Backlog to Needs review on the Product Safety and Integrity (Sprint Mince Pie Dec 1 - Dec 12) board.Dec 1 2025, 9:15 AM

Change #1212200 abandoned by Tchanders:

[mediawiki/core@master] WIP Add inline option for the temp user banner

Reason:

Agreed that we will do this a different way