Translations:Help:Temporary accounts/4/en

The temporary account's identity is stored in a cookie. The account can be used until the cookie expires or is removed. This mechanism allows temporary users to keep the same account when their IP addresses change. As of 2023, on Wikipedia and other wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, the account cookie will expire after 12 months. After that, the user will not have access to the account. After the account expires, if the user wants to contribute again, a new account will automatically be created.