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Update the password fields to conform with the V1/V2 experiment changes
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Michael
Jun 30 2026, 3:52 PM
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Description

As part of the V2 experiment for Special:Create Account (T422295, which included the changes from the V1 experiment), we made a number of changes to the password field on that page.
This task is about upstreaming these changes into mediawiki core.

Acceptance criteria

  • The GrowthExperiments extension no longer has code modifying the password fields on Special:CreateAccount or Special:UserLogin
  • The adjustments that were made during the experiment to these fields for the treatment group are now available in MediaWiki core as the default experience.
  • The following aspects should be verified as working as expected:
    • Special:Create Account, Special:UserLogin
    • visiting/using these pages as anonymous, temporary, or named user
    • visiting/using these pages both on desktop (=Vector2022) and on mobile (=Minerva)
    • when logged-in: checking the check-box that says "Use a temporary random password and send it to the specified email address"

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Related Changes in Gerrit:
SubjectAuthorRepoBranchLines +/-
CreateAccountForm: Make v1/v2 account creation form changes to the password field the default experienceEMcFarlandmediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEventsmaster+0 -17
CreateAccountForm: Make v1/v2 account creation form changes to the password field the default experienceEMcFarlandmediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperimentsmaster+0 -40
CreateAccountForm: Make v1/v2 account creation form changes to the password field the default experienceEMcFarlandmediawiki/coremaster+27 -5
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Michael created this task.Jun 30 2026, 3:52 PM
Restricted Application added a project: MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup. · View Herald TranscriptJun 30 2026, 3:52 PM
Michael updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 30 2026, 3:54 PM
Michael moved this task from Inbox to Up next Sprint on the Growth-Team board.Jun 30 2026, 4:25 PM
KStoller-WMF triaged this task as High priority.Jun 30 2026, 4:40 PM
KStoller-WMF set the point value for this task to 3.
KStoller-WMF moved this task from Up next Sprint to FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 1 on the Growth-Team board.Jun 30 2026, 4:42 PM
KStoller-WMF edited projects, added: Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 1); removed: Growth-Team.
EMcFarland-WMF claimed this task.Jul 6 2026, 3:48 PM
EMcFarland-WMF moved this task from Incoming to Doing on the Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 1) board.Jul 7 2026, 9:52 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Jul 9 2026, 2:52 PM

Change #1309224 had a related patch set uploaded (by EMcFarland; author: EMcFarland):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@master] CreateAccountForm: Make v2/v2 account creation form changes to the password field the default experience

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1309224

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 9 2026, 2:52 PM

Change #1309225 had a related patch set uploaded (by EMcFarland; author: EMcFarland):

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] CreateAccountForm: Make v1/v2 account creation form changes to the password field the default experience

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1309225

EMcFarland-WMF moved this task from Doing to Code Review on the Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 1) board.Jul 10 2026, 10:57 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Jul 14 2026, 3:50 PM

Change #1309220 had a related patch set uploaded (by EMcFarland; author: EMcFarland):

[mediawiki/core@master] CreateAccountForm: Make v1/v2 account creation form changes to the password field the default experience

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1309220

DMburugu edited projects, added: Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 2); removed: Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 1).Jul 14 2026, 4:38 PM
DMburugu moved this task from Incoming to Code Review on the Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 2) board.
gerritbot added a comment.Jul 15 2026, 1:43 PM

Change #1309225 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] CreateAccountForm: Make v1/v2 account creation form changes to the password field the default experience

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1309225

gerritbot added a comment.Jul 15 2026, 1:43 PM

Change #1309224 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@master] CreateAccountForm: Make v1/v2 account creation form changes to the password field the default experience

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1309224

gerritbot added a comment.Jul 15 2026, 1:44 PM

Change #1309220 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] CreateAccountForm: Make v1/v2 account creation form changes to the password field the default experience

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1309220

Michael moved this task from Code Review to QA on the Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 2) board.Jul 15 2026, 1:58 PM

This has now been merged and is available on https://auth.wikimedia.beta.wmcloud.org/enwiki/wiki/Special:CreateAccount to be tested.

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.12; 2026-07-21).Jul 15 2026, 2:00 PM
Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 15 2026, 2:32 PM
Etonkovidova subscribed.Jul 15 2026, 10:26 PM

@EMcFarland-WMF - a super minor issue: when the warning about invalid password is displayed, the eye icon is still visible (and functioning). Do you think it's worth to address it? I did not find any other instances of that issue, i.e. "Confirm password" field seems ok.

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Etonkovidova updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 15 2026, 10:27 PM
Etonkovidova updated the task description. (Show Details)
  • when logged-in: checking the check-box that says "Use a temporary random password and send it to the specified email address"

The check-box "Use a temporary random password and send it to the specified email address" is displayed only when a logged-in user goes to Special:CreateAccount page.

DMburugu added a project: Essential-Work.Jul 16 2026, 9:13 AM
DMburugu edited projects, added: OKR-Work; removed: Essential-Work.
EMcFarland-WMF added a subscriber: AAlhazwani-WMF.Jul 16 2026, 10:13 AM

@EMcFarland-WMF - a super minor issue: when the warning about invalid password is displayed, the eye icon is still visible (and functioning). Do you think it's worth to address it? I did not find any other instances of that issue, i.e. "Confirm password" field seems ok.

Thank you for pointing out this minor issue. I will defer to design on whether we should address this. @AAlhazwani-WMF what do you think?

Etonkovidova moved this task from QA to Design Review on the Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 2) board.Jul 16 2026, 4:44 PM
GitHubPRBot added a comment.Wed, Jul 22, 9:24 PM

ealbizzati opened https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios/pull/6025

EMcFarland-WMF added a subscriber: EAlbizzati-WMF.Thu, Jul 23, 9:11 AM

Hi @EAlbizzati-WMF, did you mean to link your pull request to phabricator task?

AAlhazwani-WMF added a comment.Thu, Jul 23, 10:39 AM
In T430697#12127650, @EMcFarland-WMF wrote:

@EMcFarland-WMF - a super minor issue: when the warning about invalid password is displayed, the eye icon is still visible (and functioning). Do you think it's worth to address it? I did not find any other instances of that issue, i.e. "Confirm password" field seems ok.

Thank you for pointing out this minor issue. I will defer to design on whether we should address this. @AAlhazwani-WMF what do you think?

apologies for the belated reply. @EMcFarland-WMF this is not minor, we should defintely fix this. is this an issue related to the codex component or specifically to the account creation form? is the issue present also in the scenario where we don't display errors as "block" message but as "inline" message? you can check the inline warning/error messages on T424979

Michael added a comment.Thu, Jul 23, 1:39 PM
In T430697#12149287, @AAlhazwani-WMF wrote:
In T430697#12127650, @EMcFarland-WMF wrote:

@EMcFarland-WMF - a super minor issue: when the warning about invalid password is displayed, the eye icon is still visible (and functioning). Do you think it's worth to address it? I did not find any other instances of that issue, i.e. "Confirm password" field seems ok.

Thank you for pointing out this minor issue. I will defer to design on whether we should address this. @AAlhazwani-WMF what do you think?

apologies for the belated reply. @EMcFarland-WMF this is not minor, we should defintely fix this. is this an issue related to the codex component or specifically to the account creation form? is the issue present also in the scenario where we don't display errors as "block" message but as "inline" message? you can check the inline warning/error messages on T424979

Note: this should be fixed by now, by virtue of the change that did all adjustment for error/warning messages being merged. This should be verifiable on https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount and later today on enwiki.

EAlbizzati-WMF added a comment.Thu, Jul 23, 2:09 PM

@AAlhazwani-WMF and @Michael sorry it was a typo. task was completely unrelated to this one.
updated the PR.
I'm sorry for the noise

EMcFarland-WMF added a comment.Thu, Jul 23, 3:34 PM

To second what Michael said, the issue that Elena found has been fixed.

DMburugu closed this task as Resolved.EditedMon, Jul 27, 10:12 AM

I'll close this based on the fact that it meets the Acceptance Criteria defined and the QS lead has confirmed the issue as fixed. Any issues can be filled as a follow up task.

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