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*Weekly highlight* - Temporary accounts <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Temporary_accounts> have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese. Now, about 1/3 of all logged-out activity across wikis is coming from temporary accounts. Users involved in patrolling may be interested in two new documentation pages: Access to IP <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/Access_to_IP>, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, and Repository <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/Repository> with a list of new gadgets and user scripts. *Updates for editors* - Anyone can play an experimental new game, WikiRun <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/New_Engagement_Experiments/WikiRun>, that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible. The project's goal is to explore new ways of engaging readers. Try playing the game <https://wikirun-game.toolforge.org/> and let the team know what you think on the talk page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:New_Engagement_Experiments/WikiRun>. - Users of the Wikipedia Android app in some languages can now play the new trivia game <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/TrivaGame>. *Which came first?* is a simple history game where you guess which of two events happened earlier on today's date. It was previously available as an A/B test. It is now available to all users in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese. The goal of the feature is to help engage with new generations of readers. [1] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/22> - Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in some languages may see a new tabbed browsing feature that enables you to open multiple tabs while reading. This feature makes it easier to explore related topics and switch between articles. The A/B test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. More details are available on the Tabbed Browsing project page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Tabbed_Browsing_(Tabs)> . - Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis can now use Special:VerifyOATHForUser <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:VerifyOATHForUser> to check if users have enabled two-factor authentication <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Two-factor_authentication>. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265726> - A new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist/Focus_areas/Template_recall_and_discovery> will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: a template category browser <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateData/Template_discovery#Template_categories> will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community through the Community Wishlist <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist/Wishes/Select_templates_by_categories> . - It is now possible to access watchlist preferences from the watchlist page. Also the redundant button to edit the watchlist has been removed. [3] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Moderator_Tools/Watchlist> - 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* - As part of MediaWiki 1.44 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.44> there is now a unified built-in Notifications system that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications. Check out the updated documentation at Manual:Notifications <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Notifications>, information about migration in T388663 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388663> and details on deprecated hooks in T389624 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T389624>. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.9> *Meetings and events* - WikidataCon 2025 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Event:WikidataCon_2025>, the conference dedicated to Wikidata is now open for session proposals <https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025/cfp> and for registration <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RegisterForEvent/1340>. This year's event will be held online from October 31 – November 02 and will explore on the theme of "Connecting People through Linked Open Data". *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/28> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*
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