Remove WP25 birthday enhancements from www.wikipedia.org portal
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	Jdrewniak
	Tue, Apr 7, 5:02 PM

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Background

In T412000 we added baby globe to the www.wikipedia.org portal page.

Screenshot 2026-04-07 at 12.52.21 PM.png (538×563 px, 82 KB)

This design was set to run until Feb. 6th 2026 it is now time to revert those changes and turn the page back to the standard design:

Screenshot 2026-04-07 at 12.54.21 PM.png (567×696 px, 97 KB)

(please disregard the unicode errors in this screenshot)

Requirements

The following patches introduced the baby globe design and need to be reverted:

Acceptance criteria

Baby globe has left the building - the www.wikipedia.org page no longer features our cute 25th birthday mascot.

This task was created by Version 1.0.0 of the Reader Experience team task template using phabulous.

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Remove Wikipedia25 portal interventions	wikimedia/portals	master	+0 -1 K

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Mentioned Here: T412000: Add Wikipedia25 portal enhancements

Event Timeline

Jdrewniak created this task.Tue, Apr 7, 5:02 PM

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Jdrewniak assigned this task to ATitkov.Tue, Apr 7, 5:03 PM

Jdlrobson-WMF moved this task from Incoming to Needs refinement on the Reader Experience Team board.Tue, Apr 7, 5:30 PM

LMora-WMF moved this task from Needs refinement to REx Sprint 18 [Q4 Apr 7 - Apr 20] on the Reader Experience Team board.Tue, Apr 7, 5:41 PM

LMora-WMF edited projects, added Reader Experience Team (REx Sprint 18 [Q4 Apr 7 - Apr 20]); removed Reader Experience Team.

Volker_E moved this task from Ready to In progress on the Reader Experience Team (REx Sprint 18 [Q4 Apr 7 - Apr 20]) board.Tue, Apr 7, 10:27 PM

Volker_E moved this task from In progress to Needs code review on the Reader Experience Team (REx Sprint 18 [Q4 Apr 7 - Apr 20]) board.

Jdlrobson-WMF triaged this task as High priority.Tue, Apr 7, 10:31 PM

Change #1268661 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: ATitkov):

[wikimedia/portals@master] Remove Wikipedia25 portal interventions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1268661

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Wed, Apr 8, 4:07 PM

Change #1268661 merged by jenkins-bot:

[wikimedia/portals@master] Remove Wikipedia25 portal interventions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1268661

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Wed, Apr 8, 7:31 PM

Volker_E moved this task from Needs code review to Sign-off on the Reader Experience Team (REx Sprint 18 [Q4 Apr 7 - Apr 20]) board.Wed, Apr 8, 8:05 PM

Jdrewniak set the point value for this task to 2.Thu, Apr 9, 2:44 PM

The mascot is gone from portal page :') checked in production.

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Remove WP25 birthday enhancements from www.wikipedia.org portalClosed, ResolvedPublic2 Estimated Story PointsActions