NOTE: Due to the time-sensitive nature of the Wikipedia 25 birthday celebrations, it is unreasonable to expect a full security review for this extension before a production deployment in January/February 2026. The developer @ATitkov will provide a self-review to the best of their abilities and @Jdrewniak will assume the security risk for deploying this to production.
This task will encompass the initial security review done by the extension developer, as well as an eventual The self-review by the security team. is tracked in T411130.
**Project Information **
* Name of tool/project: Extension:WP25EasterEggs
* Project home page: TODO https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WP25EasterEggs
* Name of team requesting review: Reader Experience Team
* Name of team requesting review: #reader_experience_team
* Primary contact: @ATitkov (developer) @cmadeo (project lead)
* Target date for deployment: January/February 2026
* Link to code repository: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/WP25EasterEggs/+/refs/heads/master
* Link to scc output for general sizing of codebases (https://github.com/boyter/scc):
TODO
**Description of the tool/project: **
The Wikipedia 25 Easter eggs extension will provide readers of Wikipedia with a celebratory mascot who will accompany them on their Wikipedia journey.
**Description of how the tool will be used at WMF:**
Lighthearted interventions to celebrate 25 years of Wikipedia.This extension is meant to celebrate Wikipedia's 25th birthday by enabling users to show an graphical mascot on the sidebar of Wikipedia articles on the Vector 2022 and MinervaNeue skins. This mascot may occasional be animated during parts of the users reading journey. Since the purpose of the extension is to celebrate Wikipedia's 25th birthday, it is by nature time-limited and temporary. There currently no intention of leaving this extension in production for longer than an a year after it has been deployed.
**Dependencies**
TODONo external dependencies.
**Has this project been reviewed before?**
No, but we will undertake a detailed self-review as part of T411130.
**Working test environment**
>Please link or describe setup process for setting up a test environment.
TODO Link to documented installation instructionsLocal setup available on documentation page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WP25EasterEggs
**Post-deployment**
> Name of team responsible for tool/project after deployment and primary contact.
Reader Experience Team
== Acceptance criteria==
- use query param `uselang=x-xss`
- confirm no alert messages appearPrimary developer is @ATitkov, manager is @cmadeo with support from the #reader_experience_team