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Improve verification email: release to English Wikipedia
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User Story

Primary user story:
As a newly registered account holder, I want to receive a clear and welcoming verification email from my home wiki so that I understand the benefits of confirming my email and feel confident in taking the next step.

Edge case user story:
As someone who received a verification email but did not register for a wiki account, I want the message to clearly explain how to disassociate my email address from the account so I can easily remove my email from the account.

Details: T396155: Improve verification email

Acceptance Criteria:
  • Release new verification email at English Wikipedia. Release Date: Dec 9, 2025.

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Due Date
Dec 2 2025, 8:00 AM
Related Changes in Gerrit:
SubjectRepoBranchLines +/-
enwiki: Enable HTML confirmation emailoperations/mediawiki-configmaster+1 -0
Customize query in gerrit

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KStoller-WMF created this task.Nov 25 2025, 12:23 AM
KStoller-WMF removed Urbanecm_WMF as the assignee of this task.
KStoller-WMF assigned this task to Urbanecm_WMF.
KStoller-WMF set Due Date to Dec 2 2025, 8:00 AM.
KStoller-WMF edited projects, added Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 4); removed Growth-Team.
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KStoller-WMF created subtask T410971: Improve verification email: release to Commons and Wikidata.Nov 25 2025, 12:26 AM
Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Incoming to Blocked / Needs Work on the Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 4) board.Nov 25 2025, 4:30 PM
Urbanecm_WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Nov 26 2025, 11:29 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Nov 26 2025, 10:02 PM

Change #1211810 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] enwiki: Enable HTML confirmation email

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1211810

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 26 2025, 10:02 PM
KStoller-WMF mentioned this in T396155: Improve verification email.Dec 1 2025, 9:36 PM
Urbanecm_WMF removed Urbanecm_WMF as the assignee of this task.Dec 2 2025, 5:36 PM
Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 4 to Blocked on the Growth-Team board.
Urbanecm_WMF edited projects, added Growth-Team; removed Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 4).
KStoller-WMF edited projects, added Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 5); removed Growth-Team.Dec 9 2025, 11:32 PM
KStoller-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)
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KStoller-WMF assigned this task to Urbanecm_WMF.Dec 10 2025, 5:10 PM
Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Incoming to Blocked / Needs Work on the Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 5) board.Dec 11 2025, 8:55 PM

Blocked by T412265: Pushing to the docker registry fails with 500 Internal Server Error.

gerritbot added a comment.Dec 15 2025, 2:31 PM

Change #1211810 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] enwiki: Enable HTML confirmation email

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1211810

Stashbot mentioned this in T410971: Improve verification email: release to Commons and Wikidata.Dec 15 2025, 2:35 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-12-15T14:35:37Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1211810|enwiki: Enable HTML confirmation email (T410970)]], [[gerrit:1211813|Enable HTML confirmation email on Wikidata and Commons (T410971)]]

Stashbot added a comment.Dec 15 2025, 2:37 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-12-15T14:37:40Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> urbanecm: Backport for [[gerrit:1211810|enwiki: Enable HTML confirmation email (T410970)]], [[gerrit:1211813|Enable HTML confirmation email on Wikidata and Commons (T410971)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Stashbot added a comment.Dec 15 2025, 2:45 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-12-15T14:45:50Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1211810|enwiki: Enable HTML confirmation email (T410970)]], [[gerrit:1211813|Enable HTML confirmation email on Wikidata and Commons (T410971)]] (duration: 10m 13s)

Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Blocked / Needs Work to QA on the Growth-Team (FY2025-26 Q2 Sprint 5) board.Dec 15 2025, 2:59 PM

Finally! Successfully released, moving to QA.

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 15 2025, 3:31 PM
Etonkovidova closed this task as Resolved.Dec 17 2025, 6:27 PM
Etonkovidova updated the task description. (Show Details)
Etonkovidova subscribed.Dec 17 2025, 6:53 PM

Edge case user story:
As someone who received a verification email but did not register for a wiki account, I want the message to clearly explain how to disassociate my email address from the account so I can easily remove my email from the account.

The current user workflow for the above Edge case user scenario

  • a user got an email confirmation
  • reads the text "If this wasn't you, you can ignore this message or remove this email address from the account." and decides to remove this email from the account
  • a user clicks on the link
  • the email address would be deleted from User preferences on the wiki
Etonkovidova closed subtask T410971: Improve verification email: release to Commons and Wikidata as Resolved.Dec 17 2025, 8:36 PM
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