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For a little while, I thought this was becoming less frequent, but have started to notice a pattern in the pages affected. It occurs when the page has wide content like a table.

The effect is seen on:

Discussions elsewhere

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First described on Village Pump Technical in September at [find post, insert link]

Example pages

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Affected Not affected Comment
Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) Possibly the tabbed VP navigation at the top of the page.
Mandate for Palestine Gaza Strip Have to scroll way down to find, it could be the table at Special:Permalink/1181749010#1922: Final amendments.

Removing the table and previewing the page (didn’t commit save!): the preview still has small text.

Measurable space Measure space Appears to be because of [1]

In desktop Minerva, the template has a show–hide toggle and the page renders with normal text size. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Measurable_space&useskin=Minerva

This page. Has table, but it's not particularly wide at time of writing.

Housekeeping

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[Putting this under Journal for now, may create a subpage section such as Issues and move it there later. ⁓ Pelagicmessages ) 17:57, 26 October 2023 (UTC)]

[Posted 17:57, 26 October 2023 (UTC).]