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Identifying what a temporary account is

I was advised to come here. What if a person who has never heard of a temporary account goes to the contributions of a temporary account? There is no link to anything explaining what is there.Vchimpanzee (talk) 20:34, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

What (I believe) Vchimpanzee is suggesting, is the implementation of a link to a Wiki's help page for temporary accounts to be added to the contributions special page. The idea (again, to the best of my knowledge) would be to explain what something like "User contributions for ~2024-12345-67" actually means to someone totally new. CapnZapp (talk) 07:02, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

That is correct. Also, this would make it clear why people were seeing contributions but not a user page. Vchimpanzee (talk) 20:43, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

When would IP editing return?

Since the temporary accounts have implemented and integrated in all of these Wikimedia projects, and IP editing has been the thing of the past, and not longer visible, when would the IP editing return? If the IP editing will never coming back, the please explain why? ~2026-33106-46 (talk) 05:58, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

The whole point of temporary accounts is to protect personal data, therefore IP editing is never coming back. Johannnes89 (talk) 09:58, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

red links to Subscribe to our new newsletter in 'Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts/Updates'

hi, concerning page-> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/Updates

i want to subscribe to newsletter and i receive error message for.... creation. strange ? Erreur de permissions

Vous n’avez pas le droit d’effectuer l’opération demandée pour la raison suivante : Vous n’avez pas le droit de créer des bulletins d’information.

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter:T%26S_Product_projects&action=edit&redlink=1

please correct. Thanks. --🚨 Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 20:03, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

I'm not WMF but I made a bold-faith fix. User:Wladek92: Je ne fais pas partie de la WMF, mais j'ai tenté de résoudre le problème. Cordialement. To WMF: if this isn't a simple case of a jumbled word soup while naming the project and the newsletter ("Trust and Safety Product" vs "Product Safety and Integrity") feel very free to revert diff 8567189. Cheers CapnZapp (talk) 08:53, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

Done : Sounds good for the reader now; the 2 'subscribe' redirect now on a subscription page rather than on the creation of a newsletter.Thanks. --🚨 Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 09:20, 21 August 2026 (UTC)

the tilde character is replaced by its HTML entity in the source editor

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T435391

That is, no longer will a comment by ~2026-12345-6 look like Special:Contributions/~2026-12345-6 when an editor (temporary or otherwise) looks in the source editor. It will instead look like Special:Contributions/~2026-12345-6. For those that aren't aware, that's the en:HTML entity ~ that is ampersand hash mark 126 semicolon → ~

I consider this a major nuisance, and I would ask the team to look into how this can be remedied.

We should under no circumstances expect the average Wikipedia user to understand ~2026-12345-6 is the same as ~2026-12345-6, even though this only is an issue when using the source editor (it looks fine when reading pages as well as in the visual editor).

Regards CapnZapp (talk) 08:24, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

Good idea. I proposed a patch to do this at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/1327125. (Note that I don't think it's right to say "no longer", since as far as I can tell, temporary user signatures always started with the encoded ~ rather than ~.) Matma Rex (talk) 14:36, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, Matma Rex. Two things: no, the encoding didn't always happen. Go look at pretty much any talk page, you'll see the switch started happening sometime early this year. Comments back in 2025 show the tilde even in the source editor; they do not do that now. Two: User:Mathglot posted a bug report, perhaps there's value in synching your efforts; read more over at en:Wikipedia talk:Temporary accounts § replacing the tilde character with the HTML entity?. Thanks CapnZapp (talk) 10:06, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

Huh. Now, whereever I look I see the tilde substituted for the HTML entity, even for 2025 talk page posts. I must have accidentally confused a genuine entry (by a TA) with someone referencing a TA account. Either that or I'm going insane or there genuinely have been a change in some software. Huh. CapnZapp (talk) 10:32, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the link, I'll connect my patch to that task. As far as I can tell, the last change to how these signatures are rendered was in January 2024: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/982447, before temporary accounts went live even on pilot wikis. Matma Rex (talk) 13:21, 20 August 2026 (UTC)