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Account creation, e-mail confirmation, and user login/logout in MediaWiki core.

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Today

matmarex moved T142542: LoggedOut cookie not set anymore from Next to In Progress on the MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Kanban Board) board.
Thu, Dec 18, 1:41 AM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Kanban Board), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), Wikimedia-Performance-recommendation, Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Legacy (Watching / External), Regression, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
matmarex edited projects for T142542: LoggedOut cookie not set anymore, added: MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Kanban Board); removed MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar).
Thu, Dec 18, 1:41 AM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Kanban Board), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), Wikimedia-Performance-recommendation, Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Legacy (Watching / External), Regression, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup

Yesterday

Tgr added a comment to T383047: Could not send confirmation email: Unknown error in PHP's mail() function..

What would be the next steps?

Wed, Dec 17, 10:11 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-EmailAuth, MediaWiki-Email, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.13; 2025-01-21), Mail, Infrastructure-Foundations, MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, Wikimedia-production-error
Etonkovidova added a comment to T383047: Could not send confirmation email: Unknown error in PHP's mail() function..

Last 24 hours - 127 instances of message: Could not send confirmation email: Sendmail exited with non-zero exit code 74 - https://logstash.wikimedia.org/goto/1425bc3e85340cb5965e3757623deb8c

Wed, Dec 17, 8:18 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-EmailAuth, MediaWiki-Email, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.13; 2025-01-21), Mail, Infrastructure-Foundations, MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, Wikimedia-production-error
pmiazga added a comment to T383047: Could not send confirmation email: Unknown error in PHP's mail() function..

This is still happening, ~3.3k per in last 4 weeks:

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Wed, Dec 17, 4:09 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-EmailAuth, MediaWiki-Email, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.13; 2025-01-21), Mail, Infrastructure-Foundations, MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, Wikimedia-production-error
Sgs moved T411880: Engineering Spike: technical feasibility of proposed Logged-Out Warning Message UX from Doing to Incoming on the Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6) board.
Wed, Dec 17, 11:55 AM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Spike
Sgs moved T411880: Engineering Spike: technical feasibility of proposed Logged-Out Warning Message UX from Incoming to Doing on the Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6) board.
Wed, Dec 17, 11:55 AM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Spike

Tue, Dec 16

KStoller-WMF moved T408649: Early design exploration for Account Creation from Up Next (estimated tasks) to FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6 on the Growth-Team board.
Tue, Dec 16, 5:46 PM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), Design, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
KStoller-WMF assigned T411880: Engineering Spike: technical feasibility of proposed Logged-Out Warning Message UX to Sgs.
Tue, Dec 16, 5:45 PM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Spike
KStoller-WMF moved T411880: Engineering Spike: technical feasibility of proposed Logged-Out Warning Message UX from Up Next (estimated tasks) to FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6 on the Growth-Team board.
Tue, Dec 16, 5:44 PM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Spike
KStoller-WMF triaged T408649: Early design exploration for Account Creation as Medium priority.
Tue, Dec 16, 5:44 PM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), Design, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
KStoller-WMF assigned T408649: Early design exploration for Account Creation to AAlhazwani-WMF.
Tue, Dec 16, 5:12 PM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), Design, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
KStoller-WMF moved T408649: Early design exploration for Account Creation from Triaged to Up Next (estimated tasks) on the Growth-Team board.
Tue, Dec 16, 5:11 PM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), Design, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
KStoller-WMF updated the task description for T408649: Early design exploration for Account Creation.
Tue, Dec 16, 5:10 PM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), Design, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
KStoller-WMF renamed T408649: Early design exploration for Account Creation from Design exploration: Special:CreateAccount to Early design exploration for Account Creation.
Tue, Dec 16, 5:01 PM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), Design, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
KStoller-WMF closed T410558: Design Research: Account Registration audit and best-practice review, a subtask of T409236: [EPIC] Account Creation: Audit and improve the account creation experience across Wikimedia wikis, as Resolved.
Tue, Dec 16, 4:48 PM · OKR-Work (WE1 FY2025-26), MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, Epic, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Growth-Team
KStoller-WMF closed T410558: Design Research: Account Registration audit and best-practice review as Resolved.
Tue, Dec 16, 4:48 PM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 5), Design, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page
AAlhazwani-WMF updated subscribers of T411880: Engineering Spike: technical feasibility of proposed Logged-Out Warning Message UX.

Will the popup pre-save be shown before or after the pre-save edit checks?

Tue, Dec 16, 2:08 PM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Spike
AAlhazwani-WMF added a comment to T410558: Design Research: Account Registration audit and best-practice review.

we've finalized the comp review, and put the findings together in a slide deck (internal google slides).

Tue, Dec 16, 11:16 AM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 5), Design, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page

Mon, Dec 15

KStoller-WMF moved T411880: Engineering Spike: technical feasibility of proposed Logged-Out Warning Message UX from Current Quarter Backlog to Up Next (estimated tasks) on the Growth-Team board.
Mon, Dec 15, 5:13 PM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Spike
KStoller-WMF set the point value for T411880: Engineering Spike: technical feasibility of proposed Logged-Out Warning Message UX to 5.

Timebox: 5 days

Mon, Dec 15, 5:13 PM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Spike
KStoller-WMF updated the task description for T411880: Engineering Spike: technical feasibility of proposed Logged-Out Warning Message UX.
Mon, Dec 15, 2:38 PM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Spike

Fri, Dec 12

gerritbot added a comment to T142542: LoggedOut cookie not set anymore.

Change #1217757 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Remove LoggedOut cookie logic

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1217757

Fri, Dec 12, 4:35 PM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Kanban Board), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), Wikimedia-Performance-recommendation, Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Legacy (Watching / External), Regression, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
matmarex closed T72145: Safari sets forceHTTPS=deleted incorrectly, causing login failure on Beta Cluster as Declined.

We no longer use mixed HTTP/HTTPS mode (with the forceHTTPS cookie) on Wikimedia wikis, and we want to drop support for it from MediaWiki entirely (T372396), so I'm declining this.

Fri, Dec 12, 4:35 PM · Beta-Cluster-reproducible, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
matmarex closed T86601: Check for forceHTTPS=$somethingOtherThan1 and ignore it, a subtask of T72145: Safari sets forceHTTPS=deleted incorrectly, causing login failure on Beta Cluster, as Declined.
Fri, Dec 12, 4:34 PM · Beta-Cluster-reproducible, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
matmarex closed T86601: Check for forceHTTPS=$somethingOtherThan1 and ignore it as Declined.

We no longer use mixed HTTP/HTTPS mode (with the forceHTTPS cookie) on Wikimedia wikis, and we want to drop support for it from MediaWiki entirely (T372396), so I'm declining this.

Fri, Dec 12, 4:34 PM · MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
gerritbot added a comment to T142542: LoggedOut cookie not set anymore.

Change #1217790 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gergő Tisza; author: Gergő Tisza):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove LoggedOut cookie logic

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1217790

Fri, Dec 12, 4:33 PM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Kanban Board), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), Wikimedia-Performance-recommendation, Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Legacy (Watching / External), Regression, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
gerritbot added a comment to T142542: LoggedOut cookie not set anymore.

Change #1217774 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gergő Tisza; author: Gergő Tisza):

[operations/puppet@production] Remove LoggedOut cookie handling

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1217774

Fri, Dec 12, 3:56 PM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Kanban Board), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), Wikimedia-Performance-recommendation, Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Legacy (Watching / External), Regression, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
ReleaseTaggerBot added a project to T142542: LoggedOut cookie not set anymore: MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16).
Fri, Dec 12, 3:00 PM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Kanban Board), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), Wikimedia-Performance-recommendation, Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Legacy (Watching / External), Regression, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
gerritbot added a comment to T142542: LoggedOut cookie not set anymore.

Change #1203252 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Remove defunct LoggedOut cookie

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1203252

Fri, Dec 12, 2:39 PM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Kanban Board), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), Wikimedia-Performance-recommendation, Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Legacy (Watching / External), Regression, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
gerritbot added a comment to T142542: LoggedOut cookie not set anymore.

Change #1217757 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gergő Tisza; author: Gergő Tisza):

[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Remove LoggedOut cookie logic

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1217757

Fri, Dec 12, 2:20 PM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Kanban Board), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), Wikimedia-Performance-recommendation, Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Legacy (Watching / External), Regression, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
AAlhazwani-WMF added a comment to T410558: Design Research: Account Registration audit and best-practice review.

we've looked at the top 20 services across web[1], ios[2], and android[3] to build off jakob's law[4], and we've started to compile a comp review[5]. the figma file takes a while to load, be patient :)

Fri, Dec 12, 11:16 AM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 5), Design, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page

Thu, Dec 11

ldelench_wmf added a project to T409236: [EPIC] Account Creation: Audit and improve the account creation experience across Wikimedia wikis: OKR-Work (WE1 FY2025-26).
Thu, Dec 11, 10:07 PM · OKR-Work (WE1 FY2025-26), MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, Epic, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Growth-Team
KStoller-WMF added a subtask for T409236: [EPIC] Account Creation: Audit and improve the account creation experience across Wikimedia wikis: T381096: Hide the search form in the skin during login, signup, and other auth-domain workflows.
Thu, Dec 11, 4:11 PM · OKR-Work (WE1 FY2025-26), MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, Epic, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Growth-Team
Pppery merged task T412319: Search blocked from Special:Account Creation into T381096: Hide the search form in the skin during login, signup, and other auth-domain workflows.
Thu, Dec 11, 1:25 AM · SUL3, Discovery-Search, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Growth-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
Jdlrobson-WMF added a comment to T408649: Early design exploration for Account Creation.

I notice the sign up form has no link to login e.g. "Already have an account? Login". Was this an intentional decision?

Thu, Dec 11, 1:05 AM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), Design, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
Etonkovidova added a comment to T412319: Search blocked from Special:Account Creation.

What meaningful search results are you expecting? The auth domain doesn't have content.

See T381096: Hide the search form in the skin during login, signup, and other auth-domain workflows

Thu, Dec 11, 12:31 AM · SUL3, Discovery-Search, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Growth-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
JJMC89 added a project to T412319: Search blocked from Special:Account Creation: SUL3.

What meaningful search results are you expecting? The auth domain doesn't have content.

Thu, Dec 11, 12:27 AM · SUL3, Discovery-Search, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Growth-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
KStoller-WMF updated subscribers of T412319: Search blocked from Special:Account Creation.
Thu, Dec 11, 12:21 AM · SUL3, Discovery-Search, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Growth-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
KStoller-WMF updated the task description for T412319: Search blocked from Special:Account Creation.
Thu, Dec 11, 12:15 AM · SUL3, Discovery-Search, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Growth-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
KStoller-WMF created T412319: Search blocked from Special:Account Creation.
Thu, Dec 11, 12:15 AM · SUL3, Discovery-Search, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Growth-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup

Wed, Dec 10

Michael updated the task description for T411880: Engineering Spike: technical feasibility of proposed Logged-Out Warning Message UX.
Wed, Dec 10, 5:23 PM · Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 6), MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, Spike
Tgr added a parent task for T412207: Popup mode should have less footer links: T75062: OAuth permission screen (authorization dialog) needs redesign for better usability and comprehension.
Wed, Dec 10, 12:24 PM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-extensions-OAuth
Tgr created T412207: Popup mode should have less footer links.
Wed, Dec 10, 12:23 PM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-extensions-OAuth

Tue, Dec 9

kostajh moved T409431: SpecialCreateAccount instrumentation: Record event on error page from Ready to In progress on the WE4.2 Bot detection (WE4.2 hCaptcha editing trial) board.
Tue, Dec 9, 3:19 PM · Product Safety and Integrity (Sprint Mince Pie Dec 1 - Dec 12), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.2; 2025-11-12), MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, WE4.2 Bot detection (WE4.2 hCaptcha editing trial)
kostajh closed T412084: Logout events not accurately recorded in authevents channel as Invalid.

Nevermind, @Tgr notes that this is a side effect of T394402: Reduce noisy auth logs

Tue, Dec 9, 10:21 AM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralAuth
kostajh renamed T412084: Logout events not accurately recorded in authevents channel from Logout events not captured in authevents channel to Logout events not accurately recorded in authevents channel.
Tue, Dec 9, 10:20 AM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralAuth
kostajh updated the task description for T412084: Logout events not accurately recorded in authevents channel.
Tue, Dec 9, 10:19 AM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralAuth
kostajh created T412084: Logout events not accurately recorded in authevents channel.
Tue, Dec 9, 10:17 AM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralAuth
hector.arroyo moved T409431: SpecialCreateAccount instrumentation: Record event on error page from Ready to In progress on the Product Safety and Integrity (Sprint Mince Pie Dec 1 - Dec 12) board.
Tue, Dec 9, 9:57 AM · Product Safety and Integrity (Sprint Mince Pie Dec 1 - Dec 12), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.2; 2025-11-12), MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MediaWiki-CreateAccount-page, WE4.2 Bot detection (WE4.2 hCaptcha editing trial)