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Special:CreateAccount: increase button-size and drop mobile logo and notice message
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In the V1 experiment (T415659), which was also included in the V2 iteration, we removed visual clutter from the Special:CreateAccount page, and made the "Create Account" button more prominent.

These changes should now be upstreamed as the new experience for everyone.

Acceptance criteria

  • The wiki logo is removed from the mobile version of Special:CreateAccount and Special:UserLogin
  • The notice message is removed from the mobile version of Special:CreateAccount and Special:UserLogin
  • The "Create Account" button has its size increased on both mobile and desktop
  • If there was related experiment code in GrowthExperiments, then it has been removed
  • 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)

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:
SubjectAuthorRepoBranchLines +/-
CreateAccount and User Login: Drop Mobile LogoEMcFarlandmediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontendmaster+0 -43
CreateAccount and UserLogin: Bring CreateAccount v2 changes into broader user experienceEMcFarlandmediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperimentsmaster+1 -29
CreateAccount and UserLogin: Remove the notice messageEMcFarlandmediawiki/skins/MinervaNeuemaster+0 -12
UserLogin: Increase button-sizeEMcFarlandmediawiki/coremaster+1 -0
extension.json: Remove extraneous textEMcFarlandmediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEventsmaster+0 -1
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Michael created this task.Jul 1 2026, 9:43 AM
Restricted Application added a project: MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup. · View Herald TranscriptJul 1 2026, 9:43 AM
EMcFarland-WMF moved this task from Inbox to Needs Discussion on the Growth-Team board.Jul 3 2026, 3:30 PM
EMcFarland-WMF changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Jul 15 2026, 9:26 AM
EMcFarland-WMF claimed this task.
DMburugu moved this task from Needs Discussion to Product Backlog on the Growth-Team board.Jul 15 2026, 1:03 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Tue, Jul 21, 2:44 PM

Change #1313203 had a related patch set uploaded (by EMcFarland; author: EMcFarland):

[mediawiki/core@master] CreateAccount: Increase button-size

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1313203

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Tue, Jul 21, 2:44 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Tue, Jul 21, 2:52 PM

Change #1313208 had a related patch set uploaded (by EMcFarland; author: EMcFarland):

[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] CreateAccount and User Login: Drop Mobile Logo

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1313208

gerritbot added a comment.Tue, Jul 21, 2:56 PM

Change #1313210 had a related patch set uploaded (by EMcFarland; author: EMcFarland):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@master] extension.json: Remove extraneous text

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1313210

gerritbot added a comment.Tue, Jul 21, 3:02 PM

Change #1313213 had a related patch set uploaded (by EMcFarland; author: EMcFarland):

[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] CreateAccount and UserLogin: Remove the notice message

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1313213

gerritbot added a comment.Tue, Jul 21, 4:00 PM

Change #1313232 had a related patch set uploaded (by EMcFarland; author: EMcFarland):

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] CreateAccount and UserLogin: Bring CreateAccount v2 changes into broader user experience

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1313232

gerritbot added a comment.Tue, Jul 21, 4:19 PM

Change #1313210 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@master] extension.json: Remove extraneous text

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1313210

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.13; 2026-07-28).Tue, Jul 21, 5:00 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Wed, Jul 22, 10:32 AM

Change #1313203 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] UserLogin: Increase button-size

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1313203

gerritbot added a comment.Wed, Jul 22, 12:56 PM

Change #1313213 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] CreateAccount and UserLogin: Remove the notice message

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1313213

gerritbot added a comment.Wed, Jul 22, 12:57 PM

Change #1313232 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] CreateAccount and UserLogin: Bring CreateAccount v2 changes into broader user experience

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1313232

gerritbot added a comment.Wed, Jul 22, 2:18 PM

Change #1313208 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] CreateAccount and User Login: Drop Mobile Logo

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1313208

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Wed, Jul 22, 2:31 PM
KStoller-WMF moved this task from Product Backlog to Up next Sprint on the Growth-Team board.Wed, Jul 22, 11:14 PM

Should we have this in the current sprint?

KStoller-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Wed, Jul 22, 11:20 PM
EMcFarland-WMF added a comment.Thu, Jul 23, 9:19 AM

@KStoller-WMF Yes, I should have moved this task into the current sprint when I started working on it. Thanks for catching that.

EMcFarland-WMF edited projects, added: Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 2); removed: Growth-Team.Thu, Jul 23, 9:20 AM
EMcFarland-WMF moved this task from Incoming to Code Review on the Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 2) board.
EMcFarland-WMF moved this task from Code Review to QA on the Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 2) board.Thu, Jul 23, 10:42 AM
DMburugu added a comment.Thu, Jul 23, 12:55 PM

Based on my review in Beta the following criteria appear to be met:

  • The wiki logo is removed from the mobile version of Special:CreateAccount and Special:UserLogin
  • The notice message is removed from the mobile version of Special:CreateAccount and Special:UserLogin
  • The "Create Account" button has its size increased on both mobile and desktop
  • If there was related experiment code in GrowthExperiments, then it has been removed
  • 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)
DMburugu closed this task as Resolved.Fri, Jul 24, 6:03 AM

Marking as resolved. If there are issues, those will be handled in a follow up task.

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