Is it possible this is what's been causing 
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318479?



> On May 21, 2024, at 8:55 AM, Szymon Grabarczuk <sgrabarc...@wikimedia.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am reaching out on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Trust and Safety 
> Product <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product> team, 
> working on the Temporary Accounts 
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts> 
> project (formerly, IP Masking). We are making preparations for deployment on 
> testwiki.
> 
> We want to minimize the impact of temporary accounts on the ecosystem of 
> tools and features. Before deployment, we'll ask for stewards' confirmation 
> that critical workflows are not affected. Now, we would like to ask you to 
> check the impact on code you maintain. There may be breaking changes!
> 
> We do not have a firm deadline for deployment yet. We will let you know as 
> soon as we do. We would like to ask you to consider updating your tool's code 
> over the next weeks, if the tool works on any/all production cluster wiki. If 
> it only works on selected wikis and testwiki is not one of them, you will 
> have more time to update it. If you think it will take longer than that to 
> update your code, please let us know on our talk page 
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts>.
> 
> For a full explanation of the technical change, please read our documentation 
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/For_developers>.
>  In particular, the section on how your code might need to be updated 
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/For_developers#How_should_I_update_my_code?>.
> 
> Some examples of ways code might be affected (not exhaustive):
> 
> A feature looks for the IP address in the user name (it will no longer be 
> found).
> A feature that relies on looking at the user’s ID to identify if the user is 
> registered or unregistered. Temporary accounts will not have a user_id of 0.
> A feature works differently for unregistered vs registered users.
> See more examples 
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/For_developers#How_should_I_update_my_code?>.
> 
> We may have discovered your issue already and filed a Phabricator task using 
> the #temporary-accounts tag. You may wish to file a subtask of T337012 
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337012>. We hope that this task will help 
> us all as the technical community coordinates on tools requiring updates.
> 
> If you have any questions or would like to learn more about the project, take 
> a look at our project page and reach out to us on the talk page 
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts>.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> 
> Szymon Grabarczuk (he/him)
> Lead Movement Communications Specialist
> (Product & Tech) 
> Wikimedia Foundation 
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