User talk:SHB2000

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  • Pub archive – all discussions swept from the pub
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The Signpost: 22 May 2026

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Tech News: 2026-22

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis in the first week of June. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session. The updated experience is designed to encourage account creation more clearly, while still allowing users to edit with temporary accounts. Results from the experiment showed a significant increase in account creation, with a 27% relative lift among users shown the updated message. As expected, as more people funnel into account creation, temporary accounts decreased by a relative 16%. The experiment did not show any significant changes in constructive edit rates or other monitored contributor metrics. [1]

Updates for editors

  • For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Members of these groups will be unable to disable the last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the next few weeks, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. Notably, this applies to bureaucrats. See the linked tasks for deployment schedules. [2][3]
  • WMDE Technical Wishes will run an A/B test on 10 wikis, testing potential improvements for Reference Previews. The experiment will run for ~2 weeks at the end of May / beginning of June and will affect 10% of desktop readers on the participating wikis.
  • After two successful experiments, the Reader Growth team is rolling out an Image Browsing beta feature for all Wikipedias on mobile on May 25. This means that anyone who has all beta features on by default will start to see this feature, and others can check the box to turn it on in their preferences. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article's images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article's carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely.
  • Recurrent item View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, three dimensional STL files were being rendered incorrectly by the media viewer 3D extension which is now fixed. [4]

Updates for technical contributors

  • The legacy CSS classes tleft and tright have been replaced with floatleft and floatright as the former do not work consistently across all MediaWiki platforms, notably mobile web and mobile apps. Projects relying on these classes are encouraged to review related usage and plan for migration. Please note that floatleft and floatright may also be deprecated in future, although there are currently no plans to do so. Read more.
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Hello! Found your account from the list of admins. I'm an admin of the Albanian Wikipedia and recently one of our users approached me for some help regarding Wikivoyage but I didn't have the necessary information to help them. They asked me about a template that was put in one of the articles they had recently worked during a workshop. In Bulqiza it says the article can be further improved but they are not exactly sure how. What is generally missing on it? Is it formatting, information or something else? Can you give us an Albanian city article which is in a good shape which we can later on use as a model? Thank you in advance! - Klein Muçi (talk) 01:08, 1 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi, not SHB2000 here. The Bulqiza article was miscategorised as an 'Outline', when it should have been a 'Usable' article; I have upgraded its WV:Article status. I believe the only Albania article that is higher than a 'Usable' is Tirana, which is a 'Guide' - not sure how useful the capital city is as a model for Bulqiza. Most of the nine Albania#Cities are at 'Usable' status, so they might be helpful. Otherwise, your friend could check out Category:Guide articles and Category:Star articles for inspiration from around the world. All the best --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 01:26, 1 June 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hey @Klein Muçi:, nice to see your name after so long! TT! has said most of what I wanted to say – namely we don't really have a large enough community to have a dedicated process for upgrading article statuses, meaning anyone (including the primary author of the article) is free to do so (except for star, which is a dead process anyway). I know technically not Albania, but Pristina is also another good article that you can use as a model. //shb (t | c | m) 09:13, 1 June 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hello, @SHB2000 and @ThunderingTyphoons!! Thank you for your fast response!
I understand. I was thinking it would be something similar to that because we have similar issues on my homewiki regarding article grading. Not enough activity to keep the process running smoothly. I mostly wanted to have some clear models for each status so I know what to show people asking for directions on how to further improve their articles. That's what we usually do on my homewiki.
And good to hear from you too, SHB2000! Maybe it's intended but just to give an outsider point of view, both your talk pages (SHB2000 and ThunderingTyphoons!) give the impression that you are not that much active here anymore. I first went to TT!'s talk page and the latest discussions were about a lack of activity from many months ago. Then I came to your talk page and only saw non-human messages. It was only after checking your latest contributions that I decided to write anyway. It was surprising when you both replied to me that fast. (I'm glad for that.) - Klein Muçi (talk) 11:19, 1 June 2026 (UTC)Reply
@ATUFAA, FYI regarding Bulqiza. - Klein Muçi (talk) 11:20, 1 June 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thank you! ~2026-32527-44 (talk) 11:29, 1 June 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Klein Muçi: haha yeah I don't really get many talk page messages here, and I'm too lazy to move my tech news updates to Meta :P. Anyway, glad I could help! //shb (t | c | m) 11:39, 1 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

This Month in Education: May 2026

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This Month in Education

Volume 15 • Issue 5 • May 2026

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Tech News: 2026-23

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • The Reader Experience team is conducting an experiment to show the 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 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 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.
  • Recurrent item View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where images could fail to load for some suggested edits on Special:Homepage, leaving the thumbnail stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed. [5]

Updates for technical contributors

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