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Hey there!
We need your help making the software that powers Wikipedia even better.
Feel free to comment on any of the tasks you see and ask if you can help with anything that looks interesting.

Wikimedia sites are kept up and running by a small group of staff from the Wikimedia Foundation and volunteers like yourself.

This Web-Team is used to focus engineering efforts around the reading (including Extension:MobileFrontend) web experience for the various WMF projects.

Before doing anything be sure to read all about our projects and then if you want to help us out in anyway you can...

  1. Sign up for a Phabricator account
  2. Head over to our irc channel on Libera.Chat (#wikimedia-mobile)
  3. Send an e-mail to our mailing list. You can maybe pitch an idea you have or simply say hi telling us: who you are, what your skillset/interest is & what you want to help us with. we will do our best to point you at other Phabricator tasks that you can help us with :-)

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Here's how the team uses the workboard columns:

To Triage

This is where incoming tasks arrive on the board. Cards that have been reviewed by the team are removed from Triage and put in one of the following columns. If a card leaves Triage for any column but Tracking, it must be given a priority.

Needs Analysis

These are tasks that the team has triaged, but need further discussion before they can be queued for future work. This can include Design work or attention from devs or Product.

Triaged but Future

These tasks are ready to enter future sprints, although they may require review and estimation from the team before actual work begins.

Upcoming

These are the tasks that are tentatively scheduled for the sprint after the current. These tasks are moved to "Current Sprint (and resolved Q etc)" when the sprint starts.

Current Sprint (and resolved Q etc)

These are tasks that the team has completed this quarter (marked "Resolved"), as well as the tasks they are currently doing (any "Open" status).

Needs Reproduction

Tasks go here when the team would like QA to review tasks that have been filed but need verification before the tasks are actionable.

Epics

These tasks are large tasks with many subtasks. While the subtasks go through workflow, these cards remain static.

Product Owner Backlog

A place that the PO of the team can store tasks to which she needs to attend.

Design

This Milestone is for tracking work for which the Reading Web Team's designer is responsible. When something needs Design attention, it is pulled into this Milestone. When that attention has been completed, the task is removed from the Milestone and returned to the Web-Team (not resolved).

Tracking

Tasks in this column are not usually worked on by the team. The tasks are those that other teams or volunteers are doing. This column also serves as a place for cards that are tagged on multiple teams, where the subtasks are completed by each team. This protocol prevents teams that are affected by similar issues, but require different solutions, from overriding one anothers' workflows (priority, story points, etc). This column is a Phabricator Milestone to take advantage of categorizing tasks into columns.

Sprints

Recent Activity

Fri, May 29

Maryana moved T280476: [Discussion] Prevent SEO decline due to Google "page experience": mid-June 2021 from Tag to Search Observability 2026-7 on the SEO board.
Fri, May 29, 4:05 PM · Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, WMDE-FUN-Team, WMDE-Fundraising-Tech, Product-Infrastructure-Team-Backlog-Deprecated, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice, SEO, Fundraising-Backlog

Apr 18 2026

brlin added a comment to T131013: Don't capitalize Wikidata descriptions when viewing article.

What about composing the stored description into an complete sentence instead?

Apr 18 2026, 8:13 AM · Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, [DEPRECATED] wdwb-tech, MW-1.33-notes (1.33.0-wmf.16; 2019-02-05), I18n, MinervaNeue, Design, Wikidata

Apr 13 2026

Maintenance_bot removed a project from T191230: [Bug] Auto expanding text area causes editor to lose editing position: Patch-For-Review.
Apr 13 2026, 7:31 PM · MW-1.31-release-notes (WMF-deploy-2018-04-10 (1.31.0-wmf.29)), MobileFrontend, Readers-Web-Kanbanana-Board-Old, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived

Apr 8 2026

Jdlrobson-WMF moved T183947: Automatically collect some public information about survey respondents from Feature requests to Response handling on the QuickSurveys board.
Apr 8 2026, 10:53 PM · Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, QuickSurveys
Jdlrobson-WMF moved T245275: Increase QuickSurveys' observability from Feature requests to Response handling on the QuickSurveys board.
Apr 8 2026, 10:36 PM · Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, QuickSurveys
Jdlrobson-WMF closed T184767: Make it possible to stop a survey after receiving a certain number of responses as Declined.

I'm going to decline this ticket as I don't think this is in scope for this extension right now.

Apr 8 2026, 10:35 PM · Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, QuickSurveys

Apr 3 2026

Izno removed a subtask for T65419: no path to Special:SpecialPages: T65459: Allow configuration of the Minerva menu.
Apr 3 2026, 11:44 PM · MobileFrontend, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived
Izno removed a subtask for T198313: [GOAL] Advanced mobile contributions: T65459: Allow configuration of the Minerva menu.
Apr 3 2026, 11:44 PM · Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, Advanced Mobile Contributions, Goal

Apr 2 2026

Jdlrobson-WMF moved T373798: MobileFrontend's Toggler has no memory since new heading syntax was deployed from Backlog to Blockers on the Readers Essential Work (WE6.3.4 Fix bugs within the reading experience across platforms for Parsoid Read Views) board.
Apr 2 2026, 11:37 PM · Readers Essential Work (WE6.3.4 Fix bugs within the reading experience across platforms for Parsoid Read Views), Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, Regression, MobileFrontend

Mar 27 2026

Jdlrobson-WMF moved T327246: Record interaction to next paint from Improve performance testing tooling to Freezer on the Readers Essential Work board.
Mar 27 2026, 10:47 PM · Readers Essential Work, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, NavigationTiming

Mar 25 2026

Pppery moved T58817: Watchlist features available on desktop that aren't on mobile yet (tracking) from Tag to Transition completed / Archived on the Tracking-Neverending board.
Mar 25 2026, 9:27 PM · Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MobileFrontend, Tracking-Neverending, Design

Mar 18 2026

SEgt-WMF added a comment to T24660: Display the categories on the mobile site for everyone.

+1 on making categories visible to all mobile users. This fifteen-year-old task represents one of the most significant remaining feature gaps between mobile and desktop Wikipedia—and the evidence suggests it's long overdue for closure.

Mar 18 2026, 7:21 PM · MobileFrontend (Core PHP), Community-Wishlist-Survey-2023, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, Advanced Mobile Contributions, Mobile, Wikimedia-Israel-Hackers, Design

Feb 12 2026

Jdlrobson-WMF moved T97891: setPageTitle to empty string or false should prevent rendering of H1 on page otherwise Wikivoyage will print 2 h1 elements in Vector from Needs triage to Bugs on the Vector (legacy skin) board.
Feb 12 2026, 11:26 PM · User-notice-archive, Vector (legacy skin), Wikidata, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived
Jdlrobson-WMF lowered the priority of T97891: setPageTitle to empty string or false should prevent rendering of H1 on page otherwise Wikivoyage will print 2 h1 elements in Vector from High to Low.
Feb 12 2026, 11:26 PM · User-notice-archive, Vector (legacy skin), Wikidata, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived

Jan 24 2026

Aklapper merged T415445: Images with location highlight lose location when viewed in higher res into T64572: Media Viewer and location map overlays.
Jan 24 2026, 3:02 PM · Accessibility, Multimedia, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MediaViewer

Dec 17 2025

HSwan-WMF moved T364285: [Night mode] Set theme color for browser chrome and switch it when night/light modes are switched, like the gadget does from Incoming/Inbox to Backlog on the Reader Growth Team board.
Dec 17 2025, 5:26 PM · Reader Growth Team, MobileFrontend (Core PHP), dark-mode, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MediaWiki-Engineering, Vector 2022, MinervaNeue
egardner lowered the priority of T364285: [Night mode] Set theme color for browser chrome and switch it when night/light modes are switched, like the gadget does from Medium to Low.
Dec 17 2025, 5:25 PM · Reader Growth Team, MobileFrontend (Core PHP), dark-mode, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MediaWiki-Engineering, Vector 2022, MinervaNeue

Dec 16 2025

Reedy closed T325017: Vector 2022 doesn't show interlanguage links in sidebar when UniversalLanguageSelector is installed as Resolved.
Dec 16 2025, 6:41 PM · Language and Product Localization, MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.18; 2023-01-09), Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, Reading-Web-Third-Party-Support, MW-1.39-release, Vector 2022

Dec 10 2025

Jdlrobson-WMF added a project to T364285: [Night mode] Set theme color for browser chrome and switch it when night/light modes are switched, like the gadget does: Reader Growth Team.
Dec 10 2025, 6:01 PM · Reader Growth Team, MobileFrontend (Core PHP), dark-mode, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MediaWiki-Engineering, Vector 2022, MinervaNeue
Jdlrobson-WMF renamed T364285: [Night mode] Set theme color for browser chrome and switch it when night/light modes are switched, like the gadget does from [Night mode] Set theme color and switch it when night/light modes are switched, like the gadget does to [Night mode] Set theme color for browser chrome and switch it when night/light modes are switched, like the gadget does.
Dec 10 2025, 6:01 PM · Reader Growth Team, MobileFrontend (Core PHP), dark-mode, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MediaWiki-Engineering, Vector 2022, MinervaNeue
Jdlrobson-WMF removed a project from T24660: Display the categories on the mobile site for everyone: Regression.
Dec 10 2025, 6:00 PM · MobileFrontend (Core PHP), Community-Wishlist-Survey-2023, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, Advanced Mobile Contributions, Mobile, Wikimedia-Israel-Hackers, Design

Dec 8 2025

VPuffetMichel added a project to T368302: Nested list items are displayed too close to their parent list item in VisualEditor in Vector-2022: Essential-Work.
Dec 8 2025, 10:58 PM · Essential-Work, Verified, Editing-team (Kanban Board), MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.6; 2025-06-17), Editing-Team-Request, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, Regression, Vector 2022, VisualEditor

Dec 7 2025

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project to T246494: Drop Nearby code from MobileFrontend: MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16).
Dec 7 2025, 11:00 PM · MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.4; 2022-10-03), Patch-For-Review, MobileFrontend, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, NearbyPages
gerritbot added a comment to T246494: Drop Nearby code from MobileFrontend.

Change #1215800 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Remove unused Luxembourgish (lb) alias for Special:Nearby

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1215800

Dec 7 2025, 10:42 PM · MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.4; 2022-10-03), Patch-For-Review, MobileFrontend, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, NearbyPages

Dec 6 2025

gerritbot added a comment to T246494: Drop Nearby code from MobileFrontend.

Change #1215800 had a related patch set uploaded (by Krinkle; author: Krinkle):

[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Remove unused Luxembourgish (lb) alias for Special:Nearby

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1215800

Dec 6 2025, 2:20 AM · MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.4; 2022-10-03), Patch-For-Review, MobileFrontend, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, NearbyPages

Nov 27 2025

Krinkle reopened T97891: setPageTitle to empty string or false should prevent rendering of H1 on page otherwise Wikivoyage will print 2 h1 elements in Vector as "Open".

Wikivoyage remains broken with two <h1> headings, and continues to require local CSS workarounds to hide the "wrong" h1 created by Vector, and fixing the gap and grey line that would otherwise show atop every page.

Nov 27 2025, 11:54 PM · User-notice-archive, Vector (legacy skin), Wikidata, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived

Nov 6 2025

Krinkle added a comment to T373874: Send Api-User-Agent header from MediaWiki client-side code.

See also mw.ForeignApi on doc.wikimedia.org, where mw.Api.Options is clickable for easier navigation.

Nov 6 2025, 7:29 PM · User-notice, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.22; 2025-03-25), Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MW-Interfaces-Team, Design-System-Team, JavaScript
Nirmos added a comment to T373874: Send Api-User-Agent header from MediaWiki client-side code.
new mw.ForeignApi( 'https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php', { userAgent: 'NameOfTool (ContactInformation)' } )

It's mentioned, if briefly, in the inline docs,

Nov 6 2025, 6:29 PM · User-notice, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.22; 2025-03-25), Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MW-Interfaces-Team, Design-System-Team, JavaScript
Tgr added a comment to T373874: Send Api-User-Agent header from MediaWiki client-side code.

We should probably make mw.Rest / mw.ForeignRest also support the userAgent option.

Nov 6 2025, 5:51 PM · User-notice, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.22; 2025-03-25), Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MW-Interfaces-Team, Design-System-Team, JavaScript
Tgr added a comment to T373874: Send Api-User-Agent header from MediaWiki client-side code.
new mw.ForeignApi( 'https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php', { userAgent: 'NameOfTool (ContactInformation)' } )

It's mentioned, if briefly, in the inline docs,

Nov 6 2025, 5:50 PM · User-notice, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.22; 2025-03-25), Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MW-Interfaces-Team, Design-System-Team, JavaScript
Nirmos added a comment to T373874: Send Api-User-Agent header from MediaWiki client-side code.

mw.ForeignApi takes the same options as mw.Api, and Api-User-Agent is on the CORS allowlist, so it should work.

Nov 6 2025, 4:08 PM · User-notice, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.22; 2025-03-25), Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MW-Interfaces-Team, Design-System-Team, JavaScript

Nov 5 2025

Tgr added a comment to T373874: Send Api-User-Agent header from MediaWiki client-side code.

mw.ForeignApi takes the same options as mw.Api, and Api-User-Agent is on the CORS allowlist, so it should work.

Nov 5 2025, 9:31 PM · User-notice, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.22; 2025-03-25), Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MW-Interfaces-Team, Design-System-Team, JavaScript

Nov 4 2025

JVanderhoop-WMF closed T332748: Include WMF version in all requests by default as Declined.

Great news!

Nov 4 2025, 5:28 PM · Test Kitchen, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived
Nirmos added a comment to T373874: Send Api-User-Agent header from MediaWiki client-side code.

Does this work with mw.ForeignApi? In the only signature that I'm aware of, mw.ForeignApi accepts a string which is the foreign domain. I can't find any mention of userAgent in the source code for mw.ForeignApi.

Nov 4 2025, 2:10 AM · User-notice, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.22; 2025-03-25), Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MW-Interfaces-Team, Design-System-Team, JavaScript

Nov 1 2025

Ahecht added a comment to T306246: PageImages ignores MediaWiki:Bad image list, (uses MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist instead) displaying search results that are inappropriate for some readers.

Another discussion on enwiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Explicit_images_in_search_autocomplete_for_%22human%22

Nov 1 2025, 9:14 PM · Beta-Cluster-reproducible, Vector (legacy skin), MinervaNeue (Tracking), Local-Wiki-Template-And-Gadget-Issues, PageImages

Oct 22 2025

Jdlrobson-WMF moved T24660: Display the categories on the mobile site for everyone from Untriaged to Core PHP on the MobileFrontend board.
Oct 22 2025, 5:36 PM · MobileFrontend (Core PHP), Community-Wishlist-Survey-2023, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, Advanced Mobile Contributions, Mobile, Wikimedia-Israel-Hackers, Design
Jdlrobson-WMF edited projects for T200880: Editor should flag mobile editing warnings, added: MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend (Editor)); removed MobileFrontend.
Oct 22 2025, 5:31 PM · MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend (Editor)), Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MediaWiki-extensions-Linter, Local-Wiki-Template-And-Gadget-Issues
Jdlrobson-WMF edited projects for T329400: Create an easy way for people to share infoboxes off-site, added: MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend (Editor)); removed MobileFrontend.
Oct 22 2025, 5:30 PM · MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend (Editor)), Editing-team, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived
Jdlrobson-WMF moved T24660: Display the categories on the mobile site for everyone from Epics to Untriaged on the MobileFrontend board.
Oct 22 2025, 5:24 PM · MobileFrontend (Core PHP), Community-Wishlist-Survey-2023, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, Advanced Mobile Contributions, Mobile, Wikimedia-Israel-Hackers, Design

Oct 7 2025

Jdlrobson-WMF closed T183995: Make it possible to survey users who have just taken or completed an action as Resolved.

Surveys can now be defined and displayed at run time using the API described in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuickSurveys#Displaying_a_survey_with_advanced_targeting_requirements

Oct 7 2025, 10:37 PM · Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, QuickSurveys
Jdlrobson-WMF closed T380289: Support targeting users by enabled preference in QuickSurveys, a subtask of T182815: [Tracking] Make it possible to survey specific groups of registered editors, as Resolved.
Oct 7 2025, 10:33 PM · Patch-For-Review, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice, QuickSurveys

Oct 4 2025

Jdlrobson-WMF closed T404148: Make it possible to target users with certain user rights, a subtask of T182815: [Tracking] Make it possible to survey specific groups of registered editors, as Resolved.
Oct 4 2025, 12:30 AM · Patch-For-Review, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice, QuickSurveys

Oct 1 2025

Izno removed parent tasks for T200880: Editor should flag mobile editing warnings: T186823: Refactor MobileFormatter class: Use IMobileTransform for all transformations, T32405: [EPIC] MobileFrontend extension should stop special-casing main page.
Oct 1 2025, 8:51 PM · MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend (Editor)), Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MediaWiki-extensions-Linter, Local-Wiki-Template-And-Gadget-Issues

Sep 26 2025

TheDJ closed T12347: Enable wikis to configure whether to display page indicators which show that the page being viewed is protected, a subtask of T278837: Evaluate how protection status is communicated, as Resolved.
Sep 26 2025, 8:07 PM · Web-Team-Backlog-Archived

Sep 12 2025

Jdlrobson-WMF moved T183995: Make it possible to survey users who have just taken or completed an action from Feature requests to Next on the QuickSurveys board.
Sep 12 2025, 3:40 PM · Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, QuickSurveys
Jdlrobson-WMF closed T182815: [Tracking] Make it possible to survey specific groups of registered editors as Resolved.

Closing epic in favor of 2 subtasks.

Sep 12 2025, 3:39 PM · Patch-For-Review, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice, QuickSurveys
Jdlrobson-WMF closed T183032: Registered editors should be able to permanently opt-out of (micro)surveys as Resolved.

You can opt out of quick surveys in preferences (done in 32a809b0f3bd2248d859bb01690199e9b9931c7d):

Screenshot 2025-09-12 at 8.36.20 AM.png (1,207×686 px, 88 KB)

Sep 12 2025, 3:37 PM · Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, QuickSurveys
Jdlrobson-WMF moved T184767: Make it possible to stop a survey after receiving a certain number of responses from Bucketing/Targeting to Feature requests on the QuickSurveys board.
Sep 12 2025, 3:35 PM · Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, QuickSurveys

Sep 10 2025

Jdlrobson-WMF moved T364285: [Night mode] Set theme color for browser chrome and switch it when night/light modes are switched, like the gadget does from Team: Readers Growth to Core PHP on the MobileFrontend board.
Sep 10 2025, 10:36 PM · Reader Growth Team, MobileFrontend (Core PHP), dark-mode, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MediaWiki-Engineering, Vector 2022, MinervaNeue

Sep 9 2025

Jdlrobson-WMF moved T182815: [Tracking] Make it possible to survey specific groups of registered editors from Next to Bucketing/Targeting on the QuickSurveys board.
Sep 9 2025, 10:08 PM · Patch-For-Review, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice, QuickSurveys