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The engineers of the Wikimedia Foundation sometimes have to use the production wiki (such as Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata, etc.) to test software features as part of their staff duty. For example,
== Rules for staff test accounts ==
* The Foundation staffer should not use any unidentified accounts for testing, the test accounts should be appropriately declared to ensure appropriate transparency through a disclaimer on the user page so that the community can reach out to the team responsible for the account for account-related matters. Please use <code><nowiki>{{WMF Test Account|team name|team email}}</nowiki></code> template on Meta-Wiki userpage to tag the test accounts.
* When a technical edge case needs to be tested on En.WP specifically - such as on the namespace other than user and usertalk - a notification needs to be posted at [[:en:Wikipedia:
* Whenever possible, the account will include the Phabricator ticket worked on in the edit summary of each test (an example where not possible: when something involving an edit summary is being tested).
* The account will restore pages that its tests impact once the respective test has been completed.
== Further links ==
* [[:m:Special:MyLanguage/Category:WMF test accounts|Category:WMF test accounts]], on Meta-wiki.
* [[:w:en:Category:WMF test accounts|Category:WMF test accounts]], on En.WP.
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