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Deployment: Promote advanced user menu to all users
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Description

Background

Following T404139: MinervaPersonalMenu configuration option cannot be toggled in isolation from MinervaAdvancedMainMenu we want to enable the user menu for all users in production.

User story

As a logged in user I want watchlist and reading list to be in a location that is consistent across mobile modes and consistent with desktop.

Requirements

  • All subtasks have been resolved
  • A config patch is made that enables the personal menu for all logged in users
$wgMinervaPersonalMenu['loggedin'] = true;
$wgMinervaPersonalMenu['amc'] = true;
$wgMinervaAdvancedMainMenu['loggedin'] = false;
$wgMinervaAdvancedMainMenu['amc'] = false;
  • Drop configuration for beta cluster introduced in

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/1217595

BDD

  • Repeat QA of T404227: [Mobile Reading list] Keep navigation menu option's location consistent across Advanced/Non-Advanced modes on Minerva
  • Ensure the change does not impact the experience for logged out users

Test Steps

  • Enable AMC mode
  • In a new tab disable AMC mode
  • The watchlist and reading list links should appear in same place.

Design

  • Add mockups and design requirements

Communication criteria - does this need an announcement or discussion?

Note: This will be announced in tech news on March 1st, and we'll be allowing a 1 week period for comments - thus, deploy is scheduled for the week of March 9th

Rollback plan

Revert the config patch.

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Event Timeline

Jdlrobson-WMF renamed this task from Promote advanced user menu to all users to Deployment: Promote advanced user menu to all users.Jan 6 2026, 7:23 PM
Jdlrobson-WMF moved this task from Incoming to Needs refinement on the Reader Experience Team board.
Jdlrobson-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)
HFan-WMF triaged this task as High priority.Jan 7 2026, 5:35 PM
HFan-WMF set the point value for this task to 2.

Change #1240012 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bernard Wang; author: Bernard Wang):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable personal main menu to all users in minerva

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1240012

SToyofuku-WMF changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Tue, Feb 24, 6:27 PM
SToyofuku-WMF subscribed.

On hold until tech news March 1st

On March 18, 2026 Editor Growth team will roll out a small experiment on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew wikipedias (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415648) that will make the user menu visible to logged out users on mobile web. So we should aim to have this deployed for logged in users prior to that, so the users who see the menu in logged out state won't be confused if they do create an account and come into their account to find that there's no user menu :)

This change was announced in Tech news on March 2, so I think we are good to deploy March 9!