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  "textContent": "Latest **tech\nnews** from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. \nTranslations are available.\n\n**Weekly highlight**\n\n  * Following a \nsuccessful 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]\n\n\n\n**Updates for editors**\n\n  * For security reasons, members of certain user groups are \nrequired 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]\n  * \nWMDE Technical Wishes will run an A/B test on 10 wikis, testing \npotential 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.\n  * After two successful experiments, the Reader Growth team is rolling out an \nImage 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 \nexclude images from the article’s carousel or to exclude an article\nfrom the feature entirely.\n  * View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were \nresolved last week. For example, three dimensional STL files were being rendered incorrectly by the media viewer 3D extension which is now fixed. [4]\n\n\n\n**Updates for technical contributors**\n\n  * 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\nmore.\n  * Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki\n\n\n\n_**Tech\nnews** prepared by \nTech News writers and posted by \nbot • \nContribute • \nTranslate • Get help • Give\nfeedback • \nSubscribe or unsubscribe._",
  "title": "Tech News 2026 – Issue 22"
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