Share Highlight: remove card customization (background color options)
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	lwatson
	Apr 25 2026, 12:55 PM

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	F78525299: wikipedia-quote-brazil.png
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	F78524857: wikipedia-quote-1777385843601.png
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	F78398575: wikipedia-quote-bbc.png
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	F78399191: wikipedia-quote-bbc.png
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	F78399145: Screenshot 2026-04-27 at 7.05.46 PM.png
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	F78398488: wikipedia-quote-polar-bear(3).png
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Description

To simplify the experiment and meet the launch date, the team decided to remove the background option switching. The quote card will have an average background option only for the experiment. Refer to the decision log for more information.

Requirement:

Background color options are no longer available
Quote cards with image render average color background
Text-only cards render light color background
Verify card display in Minerva's light/night appearance mode

Acceptance Criteria

Remove background color options (average, light, and dark. Note: transparent was already removed from an earlier decision T421134#11853174)
Fallback logic when the image is not present. Average color depends on the image.

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Share Highlight: remove card customization	mediawiki/extensions/ReaderExperiments	master	+10 -110

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open		None	T416432 [Epic] Share Card experiment
		Resolved		lwatson	T424424 Share Highlight: remove card customization (background color options)

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lwatson created this task.Apr 25 2026, 12:55 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptApr 25 2026, 12:55 PM

lwatson moved this task from Incoming/Inbox to Sprint 2 (Apr 15 - Apr 28) Q4 25/26 on the Reader Growth Team board.Apr 25 2026, 12:56 PM

lwatson edited projects, added: Reader Growth Team (Sprint 2 (Apr 15 - Apr 28) Q4 25/26); removed: Reader Growth Team.

lwatson moved this task from Committed to Doing on the Reader Growth Team (Sprint 2 (Apr 15 - Apr 28) Q4 25/26) board.

Change #1277230 had a related patch set uploaded (by LWatson; author: LWatson):

[mediawiki/extensions/ReaderExperiments@master] Share Highlight: remove card customization

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1277230

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 25 2026, 12:59 PM

lwatson mentioned this in T421134: [Share Highlights] Broken PNG download when the share card's background is dark or transparent.Apr 25 2026, 1:09 PM

lwatson updated the task description. (Show Details)Apr 25 2026, 1:18 PM

lwatson added a parent task: T416432: [Epic] Share Card experiment.Apr 25 2026, 1:21 PM

lwatson moved this task from Doing to Code Review on the Reader Growth Team (Sprint 2 (Apr 15 - Apr 28) Q4 25/26) board.Apr 25 2026, 2:01 PM

Test wiki created on Patch demo by LWatson-WMF using patch(es) linked to this task:
https://1b00a4409d.catalyst.wmcloud.org/wiki/Main Page

Test wiki on Patch demo by LWatson-WMF using patch(es) linked to this task was deleted:

~~https://1b00a4409d.catalyst.wmcloud.org/w/~~

patches was deleted moved to quality

Aklapper moved this task from QA to Code Review on the Reader Growth Team (Sprint 2 (Apr 15 - Apr 28) Q4 25/26) board.Apr 26 2026, 1:16 PM

mfossati triaged this task as High priority.Apr 27 2026, 11:36 AM

Change #1277230 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ReaderExperiments@master] Share Highlight: remove card customization

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1277230

mfossati moved this task from Code Review to QA on the Reader Growth Team (Sprint 2 (Apr 15 - Apr 28) Q4 25/26) board.Apr 27 2026, 12:14 PM

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Etonkovidova updated the task description. (Show Details)Apr 27 2026, 10:42 PM

Checked in enwiki beta - all AC are checked.

The screenshots below are for FF (the button says "Download"); Chrome (the "Share button" is displayed) show the same result for the share cards sent via email (gmail).
(1) Share card on an article with a lead image - https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmcloud.org/wiki/Polar_bear?useskin=minerva&useformat=mobile&shareHighlight=1

Light mode	Dark mode
Downloaded:	Downloaded:

(2) Share card on an article without a lead image - https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmcloud.org/wiki/BBC?useskin=minerva&useformat=mobile&shareHighlight=1

Light mode	Dark mode
Downloaded:	Downloaded:

Thanks @Etonkovidova!

Etonkovidova mentioned this in T424667: [QA task] Share highlight - production check.Apr 28 2026, 2:52 PM

In T424424#11865887, @lwatson wrote:

Thanks @Etonkovidova!

@lwatson - during testing I ran into a case when Safari (and only Safari) (desktop/mobile) doesn't include an image when Share is clicked and a share card is sent via email or a messenger.
https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmcloud.org/wiki/Brazil?useskin=minerva&useformat=mobile&shareHighlight=1

Safari 26

wikipedia-quote-1777385843601.png (660×1,136 px, 61 KB)

FF 148

wikipedia-quote-brazil.png (660×1,136 px, 134 KB)

My hypothesis is - the issue is specific to beta cluster due to Safari applying security display policy. I created T424667: [QA task] Share highlight - production check to do post-deployment check to make sure that the issue is not present in production.

Great, thanks for filing a follow-up ticket so we can recheck in production @Etonkovidova

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