*Updates for editors*

- Content Translation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ContentTranslation now supports dark mode, fulfilling a Community Wishlist request https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/W544. This brings the tool in line with the accessibility features available in the Vector 2022 and Minerva skins, helping reduce visual fatigue for users translating content. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367077 - DiscussionTools' source mode and the 2017 wikitext editor will now offer autocomplete for links ([[), templates ({{), HTML and parser tags ( <), and magic words (__), making it quicker and easier to insert links, templates, and other wiki markup while editing. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T432400 - The Readers Growth team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Growth/Mobile_page_previews has concluded its experiment with mobile page previews and will not roll out the feature. Page Previews are a pop-up bottom sheet that appears when readers tap a blue link, showing a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and an option to open the article. The experiment showed flat retention and negative indicator metrics, suggesting that mobile web readers preferred navigating directly to linked articles rather than using page previews. - The Reader Experience team has seen encouraging early results from the Reading Lists feature https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Experience/Reading_lists, with 93% of participating users reporting that it was useful. Reading Lists help active readers save articles for future reading and support their learning goals on Wikimedia projects. The team plans further improvements before expanding the feature to more users. - The Explore Feed Refresh https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Explore_Feed_Refresh initiative was tested with new and casual Wikipedia app readers. The refreshed feed helps readers discover new and relevant content. After a 10.5% increase in engagement with the feed, Wikimedia Apps team has decided to scale the Home Feed redesign to iOS with the learnings from the Android release applied. - View all 23 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 subject names in the Article Guidance feature were displayed with incorrect capitalization on French Wikipedia, has now been fixed. Subject names will now follow the correct capitalization rules for the language. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427201

*Updates for technical contributors*

- After running several Account Creation Experiments https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Contributors/Account_Creation_Experiments to improve registration completion rates, a new version of the username field on Create Account https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount has been rolled out. It includes a popover summarizing the username policy https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Create_account_-_July_2026_updates.png to provide clearer guidance during account creation. As part of this change, the messages createacct-helpusername and createacct-username-help that several communities have configured will no longer be used. If communities want to customize the guidance shown in the new popover, they can instead edit the following messages: createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet1, createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet2, and createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet3. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T430604 - Later this week, the CodeMirror syntax highlighter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror will offer themes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Theme_(computing). The themes can be picked from a dropdown menu in the full CodeMirror preferences https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror#CodeMirror_preferences dialog. For wikitext, available themes are default, colorblind-friendly (previously the colorblind preference option on Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing) and no-highlighting. For code languages (i.e., CSS/JavaScript/JSON/Vue/Lua), there are several themes available. These same themes will eventually be available for wikitext, too. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163533 - From now on, wikis can restrict editing in the "User" namespace to only the page owner and certain user groups. Read the configuration documentation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgRestrictUserPageEditing to learn more. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.47/wmf.14

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