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*Weekly highlight*
- The Trust and Safety Product team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project, see this update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/Updates. If you have any comments or questions, write on the talk page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts, and join a CEE Catch Up https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:CEE_Catch_up_Nr._10_(June_2025) this Tuesday.
*Updates for editors*
- [image: Wishlist item] The watchlist expiry https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Watchlist_expiry feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The preferences https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist-pageswatchlist also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265716 - The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (some https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/19 have already received this design change, a few https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379264 will get these changes later). You can read details about the changes on *Diff* https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/02/making-talk-pages-better-for-everyone/. It is possible to opt out of these changes in user preferences https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion ("Show discussion activity"). [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319146[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392121 - Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accounts revealed automatically https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358853 during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386492 - This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2025_RecentChanges_Language_Agnostic_Revert_Risk_Filtering, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2025_RecentChanges_Language_Agnostic_Revert_Risk_Filtering. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391964 - [image: Recurrent item] View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks .
*Updates for technical contributors*
- AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are available on Phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T369611. - Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on some wikis https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/mediawiki-config/+/2e4ab14aa15bb95568f9c07dd777065901eb2126/wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php#10849 to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on mw.title objects https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#added-by-extensions, named pageImage and pageAssessments. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131911[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380122 - [image: Recurrent item] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.5
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