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Temporary accounts will be rolled out soon

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Hello, we are the Wikimedia Foundation Product Safety and Integrity team. We would like to announce that we plan to enable temporary accounts for this wiki in the week of September 1.

Temporary accounts are successfully live on 30 wikis, including many large ones like German, Japanese, and French. The change they bring is especially relevant to logged-out editors, who this feature is designed to protect. But it is also relevant to community members like mentors, patrollers, and admins – anyone who reverts edits, blocks users, or otherwise interacts with logged-out editors as part of keeping the wikis safe and accurate.

Why we are building temporary accounts

Our wikis should be safer to edit by default for logged-out editors. Temporary accounts allow people to continue editing the wikis without creating an account, while avoiding publicly tying their edits to their IP address. We believe this is in the best interest of our logged-out editors, who make valuable contributions to the wikis and who may later create accounts and grow our community of editors, admins, and other roles. Even though the wikis do warn logged-out editors that their IP address will be associated with their edit, many people may not understand what an IP address is, or that it could be used to connect them to other information about them in ways they might not expect.

Additionally, our moderation software and tools rely too heavily on network origin (IP addresses) to identify users and patterns of activity, especially as IP addresses themselves are becoming less stable as identifiers. Temporary accounts allow for more precise interactions with logged-out editors, including more precise blocks, and can help limit how often we unintentionally end up blocking good-faith users who use the same IP addresses as bad-faith users.

How temporary accounts work

Any time a logged-out user publishes an edit on this wiki, a cookie will be set in this user's browser, and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, current year, a number). On pages like Recent Changes or page history, this name will be displayed. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser. A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. However, only some logged-in users will be able to see it.

What does this mean for different groups of users?

For logged-out editors

  • This increases privacy: currently, if you do not use a registered account to edit, then everybody can see the IP address for the edits you made, even after 90 days. That will no longer be possible on this wiki.
  • If you use a temporary account to edit from different locations in the last 90 days (for example at home and at a coffee shop), the edit history and the IP addresses for all those locations will now be recorded together, for the same temporary account. Users who meet the relevant requirements will be able to view this data. If this creates any personal security concerns for you, please contact talktohumanrights at wikimedia.org for advice.

For community members interacting with logged-out editors

  • A temporary account is uniquely linked to a device. In comparison, an IP address can be shared with different devices and people (for example, different people at school or at work might have the same IP address).
  • Compared to the current situation, it will be safer to assume that a temporary user's talk page belongs to only one person, and messages left there will be read by them. As you can see in the screenshot, temporary account users will receive notifications. It will also be possible to thank them for their edits, ping them in discussions, and invite them to get more involved in the community.

For users who use IP address data to moderate and maintain the wiki

  • For patrollers who track persistent abusers, investigate violations of policies, etc.: Users who meet the requirements will be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range (Special:IPContributions). They will also have access to useful information about the IP addresses thanks to the IP Info feature. Many other pieces of software have been built or adjusted to work with temporary accounts, including AbuseFilter, global blocks, Global User Contributions, and more. (For information for volunteer developers on how to update the code of your tools – see the last part of the message.)
  • For admins blocking logged-out editors:
    • It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
    • It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
  • Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this.

Our requests for you, and next steps

  • If you know of any tools, bots, gadgets etc. using data about IP addresses or being available for logged-out users, you may want to test if they work on testwiki or test2wiki. If you are a volunteer developer, read our documentation for developers, and in particular, the section on how your code might need to be updated.
  • If you want to test the temporary account experience, for example just to check what it feels like, go to testwiki or test2wiki and edit without logging in.
  • Tell us if you know of any difficulties that need to be addressed. We will try to help, and if we are not able, we will consider the available options.
  • Look at our previous message about requirements for users without extended rights who may need access to IP addresses.

To learn more about the project, check out our FAQ – you will find many useful answers there. You may also look at the updates (we have just posted one) and subscribe to our new newsletter. If you'd like to talk to me (Szymon) off-wiki, you will find me on Discord and Telegram. Thank you!

NKohli (WMF), SGrabarczuk (WMF) 2025년 8월 27일 (수) 06:35 (KST)답변

위키컨퍼런스 서울 2025 관련 안내

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안녕하세요 여러분,

공지가 약간 늦었습니다만 10월 25일에 위키컨퍼런스 서울 2025가 열립니다. 위키미디어 프로젝트에 관심있는 사용자라면 누구나 참여하실 수 있습니다.

아울러 위키컨퍼런스 서울 2025에 대한 중앙공지(Centralnotice)를 준비중입니다. 중앙공지는 메타에서 설정한 프로젝트의 상단에 알리는 공지로 사이트노티스와 유사합니다. 10월10일부터 25일까지 위키컨퍼런스 서울 2025에 대한 중앙공지가 진행될 예정입니다. 이와 관련하여 사전에 공지하고자 합니다. 감사합니다.--Youngjin (WMKR) (토론) 2025년 9월 15일 (월) 10:38 (KST)답변

자세한 내용은 meta:CentralNotice/Request/WikiConference Seoul 2025를 참조하세요.--Youngjin (WMKR) (토론) 2025년 9월 16일 (화) 13:08 (KST)답변

의견을 제시하세요: 2025년 이사회에 투표하세요

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모두들 안녕하세요,

2025년 이사회 선거 투표 기간이 시작되었습니다. 후보자들은 이사회 2석에 출마했습니다.

유권자 자격을 확인하려면 유권자 자격 페이지를 방문하세요.

지원서 내용을 읽고 지원자 소개 영상을 시청하여 그들에 대해 자세히 알아보세요.

준비가 되면 SecurePoll 투표 페이지로 가서 투표하세요.

투표는 10월 8일 00:00 UTC부터 10월 22일 23:59 UTC까지 진행됩니다.

감사합니다,

아비셰크 수리야완시
선거 위원회 의장

MediaWiki message delivery (토론) 2025년 10월 9일 (목) 13:47 (KST)답변

새로운 추상 위키백과 프로젝트의 이름을 결정하는 데 도움을 주세요.

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안녕하세요. 새로운 추상 위키백과 위키 프로젝트의 이름을 정해 주세요. 이 프로젝트는 사용자가 위키함수의 함수와 위키데이터의 데이터를 결합하여 지원되는 모든 언어로 자연어 문장을 생성할 수 있도록 하는 위키입니다. 이렇게 생성된 문장은 모든 위키백과(또는 다른 곳)에서 사용할 수 있습니다.

투표는 두 차례 진행되며, 각 라운드마다 후보자에 대한 법적 검토가 진행됩니다. 투표는 2025년 10월 20일과 11월 17일에 시작됩니다. 최종 프로젝트 이름은 2025년 12월 중순에 선정되는 것을 목표로 합니다. 참여를 원하시면 메타위키에서 자세한 내용을 확인하고 지금 바로 투표하세요. 감사합니다!


-- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 2025년 10월 20일 (월) 20:42 (KST)답변

운동 위원회에 참여할 자원봉사자를 모집합니다

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매년, 일반적으로 10월부터 12월까지, 이 운동의 여러 위원회는 새로운 자원봉사자를 모집합니다.

위원회에 대한 자세한 내용은 메타위키 페이지에서 확인하세요.

위원회 신청은 2025년 10월 30일 에 시작합니다. 가맹위원회, 에 마감되고, 옴부즈 위원회와 사건 검토 위원회 신청은 2025년 12월 11일 에 마감됩니다. 메타위키의 임명 페이지를 방문하여 신청 방법을 알아보세요. 토론 페이지에 게시하거나 궁금한 사항이 있으면 cst(_AT_)wikimedia.org로 이메일을 보내세요.

위원회 지원팀을 위해,


- MKaur (WMF) 2025년 10월 30일 (목) 23:12 (KST)답변