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*Updates for editors*

- There is a change in how new users are autoconfirmed that will improve anti-vandalism protection. Currently, users who have had an account for a few days and made a few edits are automatically added to the Autoconfirmed users https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Autoconfirmed_users group. This configuration tends to be exploited by some vandals, who create accounts and start to use them only after some time. To mitigate this, the configuration will be updated next week so that – for the purpose of becoming autoconfirmed – the account age will be counted from their first edit, instead of registration date. The numeric value of the age threshold will remain the same. This change will be deployed only to wikis which require at least one edit as part of the autoconfirmation conditions. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418484 - All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the "automatically enable most beta features" option in their preference can now use the reading lists https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Experience/WE3.3.4_Reading_lists beta feature to save articles for later reading. This helps organize reading interests in one place for convenient access. - [image: Recurrent item] 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, the issue where infobox images have huge padding in Firefox, has been fixed. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423676

*Updates for technical contributors*

- As a reminder, the global API rate limits will be applied this week to identified API traffic. This is to help ensure fair use of infrastructure https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Responsible_Reuse. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, including the actual rate limits, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_APIs/Rate_limits and Frequently Asked Questions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_APIs/Rate_limits/FAQ. - [image: Recurrent item] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.46/wmf.26

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