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Watchlist link behaviour of new personal menu dropdown is inconsistent with current behaviour
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Description

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When we worked on T404227: [Mobile Reading list] Keep navigation menu option's location consistent across Advanced/Non-Advanced modes on Minerva we overlooked the fact that the watchlist link has different behaviour when the personal menu is used. To avoid disruption to users using the watchlist as a reading list, we should update the link in the personal menu.

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

  • Create a new account and make sure you don't make any edits (also make sure you don't opt into AMC mode)
  • Click the watchlist link.

To replicate locally:

Incorrect behavior:

$wgMinervaPersonalMenu['loggedin'] = true;

Correct behaviour:

$wgMinervaPersonalMenu['loggedin'] =false;

What happens?:
In production I am navigated to Special:EditWatchlist
In beta cluster I am navigated to Special:Watchlist

What should have happened instead?:
The behaviour should be identical. We should navigate to Special:EditWatchlist.

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

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

Event Timeline

Change #1217804 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Jdlrobson):

[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] Link to edit watchlist for readers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1217804

HFan-WMF triaged this task as High priority.Jan 7 2026, 5:35 PM
HFan-WMF set the point value for this task to 1.Jan 7 2026, 6:46 PM

Change #1217804 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] Link to edit watchlist for readers using advanced menu

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1217804

Jdrewniak added subscribers: bwang, Jdrewniak.

meeting notes: @bwang to flesh out testing steps in task description.

Steps to QA in beta:

  • create new account (i.e no edits)
  • go to mobile
  • open user menu, click on watchlist
  • see you are on Special:EditWatchlist
bwang removed bwang as the assignee of this task.Tue, Feb 17, 6:05 PM
Etonkovidova subscribed.

Steps to QA in beta:

  • create new account (i.e no edits)
  • go to mobile
  • open user menu, click on watchlist
  • see you are on Special:EditWatchlist

Thank you, @bwang! Checked on testwiki wmf.17 - the issue is fixed.

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