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*Updates for editors* - The Reader Experience team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Experience> is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Experience/Reading_lists> feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Experience/Reading_lists#Experiment_timeline> was launched on May 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month. - The Wikimedia Apps team released Phase 1 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Explore_Feed_Refresh/Phase_1> of the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps. - View all 18 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 images could fail to load for some suggested edits on Special:Homepage <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Homepage>, leaving the thumbnail stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424048> *Updates for technical contributors* - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.47/wmf.5> *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/2026/23> • 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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