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*Weekly highlight*
- Experienced editors are invited to test https://b24e11a4f1.catalyst.wmcloud.org/wiki/Main_Page the Article guidance https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Article_guidance feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are available https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Article_guidance/Test_feature_guide. Also, after reviewing the outlines https://b24e11a4f1.catalyst.wmcloud.org/wiki/Category:Pages_using_article_guidance, please provide feedback on the project talk page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Article_guidance. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out the video https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Article_Guidance_workflow_demo_-_April_2026.webm explaining the feature.
*Updates for editors*
- On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use Special:ChangeContentModel https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ChangeContentModel page to create new pages with custom content models https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:ChangeContentModel, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check Special:ListGroupRights https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights for the status of your wiki. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248294 - The Growth team has launched an account creation experiment https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Contributors/Account_Creation_Experiments to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users. - View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382856
*Updates for technical contributors*
- Starting later this week, Abuse filter editors who have the Improved Syntax Highlighting https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror beta feature enabled will have CodeMirror https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeEditor as the editor at Special:AbuseFilter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399673[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419332 - Tools and bots that access the Notifications API https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Notifications/API ( action=query&meta=notifications) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T421991 - Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia). [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T422544 - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.46/wmf.24
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