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*Updates for editors*

- Revise Tone https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Revise_Tone helps newcomers identify passages in Wikipedia articles that may contain non-encyclopedic language and encourages them to consider revising the tone. The feature was A/B tested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:A/B_testing on the Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias, where newcomer task completion rates increased by 38.7% https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Revise_Tone#Experiment_Results compared to the default Copyedit task, with no decrease in edit quality. The test ended on July 9, and the feature is now available for everyone on these wikis, configurable via Community Configuration. The plan https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T426364 is to release Revise Tone to more wikis. - The community configuration that allows automatic removal of inactive mentors https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Mentorship#Automated_mentor_list_cleanup based on configurable criteria will be enabled on Thursday 16, on some wikis https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Deployment to keep mentor lists up to date. Mentors are experienced contributors who opt in to help new users on-wiki through the Growth Features https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Feature_summary. Administrators can now prepare the settings via Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship; they will take effect starting Thursday. - View all 38 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 some users of the Wikipedia Android app were logged out immediately after signing in, preventing them from staying logged in and editing pages, has now been fixed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316916

*Updates for technical contributors*

- Editing a page via user scripts or gadgets was causing watchlist labels that the user had assigned to that page to reset. This has now been fixed. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423778 - To work around a Safari bug (see phab:T425211 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T425211), on Parsoid-enabled wikis, wikilink hrefs now use absolute urls instead of protocol-relative urls. REST API output remains unchanged and continues to use protocol-relative urls. Gadgets, user scripts, bots, and CSS might need to be adapted if they relied on the presence of protocol-relative urls in wikilink hrefs. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T431358 - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.47/wmf.11

*In depth*

- The Wikimedia Foundation’s Experiment Platform Team has published a blog post reflecting on its first year of structured experimentation. It highlights successful experiments such as Paste Check, Reference Check, and Tone Check, which improved editing outcomes and have been rolled out to more users, as well as experiments that did not lead to product changes. Read more https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/07/07/moving-the-needle-how-we-test-new-ideas-across-wikimedia-projects .

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