What's the use of this useless page anyway? It ain't my profile, not even remotely (That's my user page). It's ugly as f***, I fail to see any purpose for this "merkbefreite" (observationally challenged) page.

Is there a way to opt out of this travesty?

In T90611#1063279, @Saenger wrote:

What's the use of this useless page anyway? It ain't my profile, not even remotely (That's my user page). It's ugly as f***, I fail to see any purpose for this "merkbefreite" (observationally challenged) page.

Is there a way to opt out of this travesty?

Please create an own task to ask your question. Thanks.

In T90611#1063677, @Umherirrender wrote:

Please create an own task to ask your question. Thanks.

Done: T90753

Someone didn't like my figurative language and I had to restart it ;)

I haven't been able to reproduce this bug. The HTML looks valid and the page seems to display fine. (Testing desktop version.) Can anyone else verify? If so, a screenshot would be useful.

Here's what my "profile" looks like:

This seems to happen on dewiki, but not on enwiki, meta or zhwiki.

https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Benutzerprofil/S%C3%A4nger_S.G&useskin=vector certainly looks broken to me currently.

Perhaps https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend/blob/master/includes/specials/SpecialUserProfile.php#L206-215, but I'm quite tired.

In T90611#1069118, @wctaiwan wrote:

This seems to happen on dewiki, but not on enwiki, meta or zhwiki.

Strange, but you seem to be right:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UserProfile/Sänger_S.G looks as intended ("right" would be the wrong word ;)
https://en.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UserProfile/Sänger_S.G as well
https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Speciaal:Gebruikersprofiel/Sänger_S.G an again
https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Benutzerprofil/Sänger_S.G but not here

What's wrong with deWP in this regard?
Or ... better just ditch this no-profile ;)

For what it's worth, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserProfile/S%C3%A4nger_S.G?useskin=monobook looks broken to me.

Due a missing closing div-tag, the header and sidebar (div#mw-navigation) are now within div#content
dewiki has in its MediaWiki:Vector.css, which causes the wrong alignment as seen in the screenshot above.

#content {
	position: relative;
	/* ... */
}

In T90611#1069169, @MZMcBride wrote:

Perhaps https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend/blob/master/includes/specials/SpecialUserProfile.php#L206-215, but I'm quite tired.

seems the right place: opening divs, but not closing the outermost one

If that's the spot, this unclosed div seems to have been introduced in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/93430/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rEMFR1000f2e10a60ea70c9cadf7d6ac0ec068c4989cc (November 2013). It would be surprising that nobody noticed until now.

Change 193299 had a related patch set uploaded (by MZMcBride):
Fix unclosed div in MobileFrontend's Special:UserProfile

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/193299

Change 193299 merged by jenkins-bot:
Fix unclosed div in MobileFrontend's Special:UserProfile

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/193299