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Minerva ships unused CSS for old search experience
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Visit any page
  • Inspect search menu in developer tools
  • Open the language overlay
  • Inspect search menu there

What happens?:

  • 174 lines of CSS is unused for the main search UI but is utilized in the language overlay unexpectedly

What should have happened instead?:

  • CSS styling MobileFrontend's language overlay should be moved to MobileFrontned
  • The code in Minerva should be removed.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:
SubjectRepoBranchLines +/-
Cleanup old search overlay codemediawiki/skins/MinervaNeuemaster+0 -174
Move search input CSS from minerva to MobileFrontendmediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontendmaster+5 -0
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Event Timeline

Jdlrobson-WMF created this task.Apr 3 2026, 6:25 PM
Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptApr 3 2026, 6:25 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Apr 3 2026, 6:26 PM

Change #1267200 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Bernard Wang):

[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] Cleanup old search overlay code

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1267200

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 3 2026, 6:26 PM
Aklapper added a project: MinervaNeue.Apr 3 2026, 6:31 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Apr 6 2026, 4:43 PM

Change #1268244 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bernard Wang; author: Bernard Wang):

[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Move search input CSS from minerva to MobileFrontend

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1268244

Jdlrobson-WMF moved this task from Incoming to Needs refinement on the Reader Experience Team board.Apr 6 2026, 8:59 PM
HFan-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Apr 7 2026, 4:50 PM
Jdlrobson-WMF set the point value for this task to 3.Apr 7 2026, 5:29 PM
Jdlrobson-WMF moved this task from Needs refinement to Ready for sprint on the Reader Experience Team board.
Jdlrobson-WMF moved this task from Backlog to Tech debt on the MinervaNeue board.Apr 7 2026, 11:25 PM
Jdlrobson-WMF added a project: Readers Essential Work (Sunsetting and cleanup).Apr 8 2026, 8:54 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Apr 24 2026, 11:11 PM

Change #1268244 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Move search input CSS from minerva to MobileFrontend

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1268244

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.26; 2026-04-28).Apr 25 2026, 12:00 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Apr 27 2026, 3:27 PM

Change #1267200 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] Cleanup old search overlay code

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1267200

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 27 2026, 3:31 PM
Jdlrobson-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Apr 30 2026, 8:47 PM
Jdlrobson-WMF claimed this task.
Jdlrobson-WMF edited projects, added: Reader Experience Team (REx Sprint 19 [Q4 Apr 21 - May 4]); removed: Reader Experience Team.
Jdlrobson-WMF moved this task from Ready to Sign-off on the Reader Experience Team (REx Sprint 19 [Q4 Apr 21 - May 4]) board.
Jdlrobson-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)
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