If your tool does not read user information from Wiki Replicas, feel
free to ignore this email.

Temporary accounts [0] are starting to be rolled out, and since
yesterday they are enabled on a few smaller wikis: Czech Wikiversity,
Igbo Wikipedia, Italian Wikiquote, Swahili Wikipedia, and
Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia. [1]

Temporary Accounts modify the ways MediaWiki stores anonymous users in
database tables. If you manage a tool that reads user information for
anonymous users, you should check the page "How should I update my
code?" [2] to find out if you need to make changes to your tool. You
can use the wikis listed above to test that your tool is working
correctly.

If you have questions or if you want to report an issue, you can file
a Phabricator task as a subtask of [3].

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts
[1] 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/Updates
[2] 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/For_developers#How_should_I_update_my_code?
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378516

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Francesco Negri (he/him) -- IRC: dhinus
Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Services team
Wikimedia Foundation
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