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Tech News: 2026-22

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 rolled out to all Wikimedia wikis in the first week of June. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who navigate into an editor. 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 reative 16%. The experiment did not show any significant changes in constructive edit rates or other monitored contributor metrics.[1]

Updates for editors

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Updates for technical contributors

• The legacy classes tleft and tright have been replaced with floatleft and floatright as they 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 that floatleft and floatright may 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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