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Tech News: 2026-22
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis in the first week of June. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session. The updated experience is designed to encourage account creation more clearly, while still allowing users to edit with temporary accounts. Results from the experiment showed a significant increase in account creation, with a 27% relative lift among users shown the updated message. As expected, as more people funnel into account creation, temporary accounts decreased by a relative 16%. The experiment did not show any significant changes in constructive edit rates or other monitored contributor metrics. [1]
Updates for editors
- For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Members of these groups will be unable to disable the last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the next few weeks, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. Notably, this applies to bureaucrats. See the linked tasks for deployment schedules. [2][3]
- WMDE Technical Wishes will run an A/B test on 10 wikis, testing potential improvements for Reference Previews. The experiment will run for ~2 weeks at the end of May / beginning of June and will affect 10% of desktop readers on the participating wikis.
- After two successful experiments, the Reader Growth team is rolling out an Image Browsing beta feature for all Wikipedias on mobile on May 25. This means that anyone who has all beta features on by default will start to see this feature, and others can check the box to turn it on in their preferences. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article's images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article's carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely.
View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, three dimensional STL files were being rendered incorrectly by the media viewer 3D extension which is now fixed. [4]
Updates for technical contributors
- The legacy CSS classes
tleftandtrighthave been replaced withfloatleftandfloatrightas the former do not work consistently across all MediaWiki platforms, notably mobile web and mobile apps. Projects relying on these classes are encouraged to review related usage and plan for migration. Please note thatfloatleftandfloatrightmay also be deprecated in future, although there are currently no plans to do so. Read more. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:51, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
Deleting on A7
[edit]Hello, you recently deleted a page I created based on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Speedy_deletion#A7
Is it because the length is too short and not credible? If that's the case, I'm about to recreate the page and will finish editing the page. Smartasyrup (talk) 15:58, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
- @Smartasyrup I suggest doing the article first in your sandbox or in the draft space first. Just one sentence with no references do not cut it for the mainspace. Please be aware of WP:NBIO and WP:GNG guidelines. Note that if you are angling for politician notability, this is generally for those who have been elected into office. – robertsky (talk) 16:05, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
Question from Thewishfulrodent (19:24, 29 May 2026)
[edit]Hello. I want to contribute to wikipedia. Could you please help me get started with learning the ins and outs of what makes a good edit/contribution to an encyclopedia of knowledge? Examples of good and bad articles and edits would also greatly help. --Thewishfulrodent (talk) 19:24, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
- @Thewishfulrodent I have dropped some links to tutorials which you can get started with on your talk page. There are plenty of 'bad' articles, however, for good articles, I suggest going through Category:Good articles and check the articles in there. Good articles are articles which has been reviewed to meet a set of standards which we aspire all articles get to. For making first edits, your homepage contains certain suggestions on some editing tasks to get you started. – robertsky (talk) 02:28, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
Teamwork barnstar
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For the impressive collective quantity of content in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2026-05-22 generated by a large number of people for a single Signpost issue, and which was published on time. ↠Pine (✉) 04:28, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2026
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2026).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the "persistent usage of large language models" has been included as a common reason for a block.
Technical news
- Mandatory 2FA for bureaucrats: Bureaucrats without two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled have already lost access to their advanced rights on 26 May. Those who do not enable 2FA may be automatically removed from the groups in mid-June 2026, and from that point onward, new members must have 2FA enabled before they can be added. (T423119, T423120)
Arbitration
- The arbitration case SchroCat has been closed.
- The arbitration case Michael Jackson has opened. Evidence submissions in this case closes on 1 June.
Miscellaneous
- Voting for the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election closes on 1 June.
Tech News: 2026-23
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- The Reader Experience team is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment was launched on May 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month.
- The Wikimedia Apps team released Phase 1 of the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps.
- View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where images could fail to load for some suggested edits on Special:Homepage, leaving the thumbnail stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed. [5]
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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