Description

User story

As a new account creator, I want to clearly understand that providing an email address is optional, so that I can make an informed choice about whether to share it without being confused or blocked during signup.

As WMF Legal, I want to be sure our account creation form is clear and transparent, so there is no risk of breaking trust or legal rules.

Design

Acceptance criteria

Add the codex field optional prop for the email field

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Special:CreateAccount: Mark the email field as optional	Michael Große	mediawiki/core	master	+28 -0

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		AAlhazwani-WMF	T433728 Account Creation: design to make it clearer that email is still optional on Special:CreateAccount
		Open		Michael	T435145 Account Creation: make it clearer that email is still optional on Special:CreateAccount

Event Timeline

KStoller-WMF created this task.Mon, Aug 17, 9:36 PM

KStoller-WMF triaged this task as High priority.

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KStoller-WMF moved this task from Needs Refinement to Needs Estimation on the Growth-Team board.Wed, Aug 19, 4:28 PM

KStoller-WMF set the point value for this task to 2.Mon, Aug 24, 3:36 PM

KStoller-WMF moved this task from Needs Estimation to Up next Sprint on the Growth-Team board.

KStoller-WMF moved this task from Up next Sprint to FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 5 on the Growth-Team board.Tue, Aug 25, 4:40 PM

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Michael claimed this task.Mon, Aug 31, 12:27 PM

Michael moved this task from Incoming to Doing on the Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 5) board.

Restricted Application added a project: User-Michael. · View Herald TranscriptMon, Aug 31, 12:27 PM

Change #1332718 had a related patch set uploaded (by Michael Große; author: Michael Große):

[mediawiki/core@master] Special:CreateAccount: Mark the email field as optional

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1332718

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mon, Aug 31, 12:44 PM

Michael moved this task from Doing to Code Review on the Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 5) board.Mon, Aug 31, 1:11 PM

Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Code Review to QA on the Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 5) board.Tue, Sep 1, 9:25 AM

Change #1332718 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Special:CreateAccount: Mark the email field as optional

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1332718

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Tue, Sep 1, 9:30 AM

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.19; 2026-09-08).Tue, Sep 1, 10:00 AM

Checked on enwiki beta - optionallabel is returned to Email address:

Screenshot 2026-09-01 at 3.28.46 PM.png (720×1,510 px, 182 KB)

Screenshot 2026-08-27 at 6.08.43 PM.png (1,516×628 px, 72 KB)

Testing notes:

verify i production (check for RTL)
check if pixel reference test was updated - currently - https://pixel-reports.wmcloud.org/login/2026-09-01T15-32-05Z/- failing seven tests for Login and sign up pages (login)

Etonkovidova mentioned this in T437253: [QA task] Pixel tool evaluation for Growth Experiments.Mon, Sep 7, 9:51 PM

DMburugu edited projects, added: Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 6); removed: Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 5).Tue, Sep 8, 4:41 PM

DMburugu moved this task from Incoming to Test in Production on the Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 6) board.

	F101268495: Screenshot 2026-08-27 at 6.08.43 PM.png
	Tue, Sep 1, 7:41 PM

	F101268455: Screenshot 2026-09-01 at 3.28.46 PM.png
	Tue, Sep 1, 7:41 PM

Account Creation: make it clearer that email is still optional on Special:CreateAccountOpen, HighPublic2 Estimated Story PointsActions