**Steps to replicate the issue**:
* Log in to your account
* Go to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount|Special:CreateAccount]] (Will redirect from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount **to** https://auth.wikimedia.org/enwiki/wiki/Special:CreateAccount)
* While you are on the Special:CreateAccount page, try using the search box (for example search about **Wikimedia Foundation**
Note: This applies to all Wikimedia projects, not just the English ones.
**What happens?**:
https://auth.wikimedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?search=Wikimedia+Foundation&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go
Permission error.
You do not have permission to read this page, for the following reason:
You are not allowed to execute the action you have requested.
{F60921018}
**What should have happened instead?**:
Either [[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Wikimedia+Foundation&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1|display search results related to the Wikimedia Foundation]], or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation|open the article directly]].
It appears that the bug (?) is that the account creation is associated with "auth.wikimedia.org", which is a separate domain from the Wikipedia itself.