Wikipedia login page scrolls to bottom

[Kiwipete]

When I navigate to the English Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and then click the Log in link https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =Main+Page, the login page scrolls down to the bottom.

[Stargate38]

I'm getting the same thing. Console output:

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Submitted the following event: Object { action: "page-load", action_context: "other", funnel_event_sequence_position: 1, instrument_name: "bot-detection", $schema: "/analytics/product_metrics/web/base…", agent: Object, sample: Object, dt: "2025-10-24T22:18:49.016Z", meta: Object }  
load.php:147:344
Submitted the following event: Object { action: "after-short-delay", action_context: "other", funnel_event_sequence_position: 2, instrument_name: "bot-detection", $schema: "/analytics/product_metrics/web/base…", agent: Object, sample: Object, dt: "2025-10-24T22:18:49.514Z", meta: Object }  
load.php:147:344
Submitted the following event: Object { action: "after-delay", action_context: "other", funnel_event_sequence_position: 3, instrument_name: "bot-detection", $schema: "/analytics/product_metrics/web/base…", agent: Object, sample: Object, dt: "2025-10-24T22:18:50.128Z", meta: Object }  
load.php:147:344

[Kiwipete]

I still observe this behaviour in the latest release 34.1.0.

Can any progress be expected soon?

[Moonchild]

Can any progress be expected soon?

Not really, since other than deliberate repositioning from within javascript (which is entirely to blame on the website authors), there doesn't seem to be anything specific about the login page.
i.e.: if we know what causes the behaviour specifically, other than deliberate action from the site's scripting, we'd have something to go one. But we don't.

Also, the login page is pretty bare-bones and doesn't take a lot of space on screen. I don't think anyone with a relatively modern monitor resolution would even notice this happening (I had to seriously scale down the window size to observe it).

[adoxa]

It's autofocus and something about the style (nothing to do with Javascript). Switching to no style will place the field at the bottom of the screen; removing all classes seems to place "Forgot your password" at the bottom; adding useskin=Monobook seems to work as expected. I couldn't track down exactly what was going on, though.

[nia_netbsd]

Interesting about the "useskin" URL parameter, this can be used to create URL Rewriter rules with regular expressions.

For the login page:

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Example URL: https://auth.wikimedia.org/enwiki/wiki/Special:UserLogin?useformat=desktop&usesul3=1&returnto=Main+Page
Include pattern: https://auth.wikimedia.org/enwiki/wiki/Special:(.*)
Exclude pattern: useskin
Redirect to: https://auth.wikimedia.org/enwiki/wiki/Special:$1&useskin=Monobook

For regular Wikipedia articles when not logged-in:

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Example URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree
Include pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(.*)
Exclude pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(.*)\?
Redirect to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1?useskin=Monobook

(You can also replace Monobook with Vector to get the pre-2022 Wikipedia skin that works well with Pale Moon. Much nicer!)

[Gemmaugr]

Interesting about the "useskin" URL parameter, this can be used to create URL Rewriter rules with regular expressions.

Indeed!

I personally use a Greasemonkey script though;

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// ==UserScript==
// @name     Wikipedia vector skin
// @version  1
// @grant    none
// @match    https://en.wikipedia.org/*
// @match    https://sv.wikipedia.org/*
// @run-at   document-start
// ==/UserScript==

if (! window.location.search) {
  window.location.search = '?useskin=vector';
} else if (! oldSearch.includes('useskin')) {
  window.location.search += '&useskin=vector';
}