diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mwclient/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mwclient/default.nix
index 51a51eb8a7f4..1cfdc81a741a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mwclient/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mwclient/default.nix
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   fetchFromGitHub,
   hatchling,
   mock,
+  nix-update-script,
   pytest-cov-stub,
   pytestCheckHook,
   requests,
@@ -12,7 +13,7 @@
   six,
 }:
 
-buildPythonPackage rec {
+buildPythonPackage (finalAttrs: {
   version = "0.11.0-unstable-2026-05-15";
   pname = "mwclient";
   pyproject = true;
@@ -21,10 +22,10 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     owner = "mwclient";
     repo = "mwclient";
     rev = "87113730b1f41d8160057621bfd90ad88428f602";
-    sha256 = "sha256-R2erz4oo6111haxlc9zhpgWhihFjMT2Mg/kdWERzcp4=";
+    hash = "sha256-R2erz4oo6111haxlc9zhpgWhihFjMT2Mg/kdWERzcp4=";
   };
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+  dependencies = [
     requests
     requests-oauthlib
     six
@@ -43,10 +44,14 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   pythonImportsCheck = [ "mwclient" ];
 
+  passthru.updateScript = nix-update-script {
+    extraArgs = [ "--version=branch" ];
+  };
+
   meta = {
     description = "Python client library to the MediaWiki API";
     license = lib.licenses.mit;
     homepage = "https://github.com/mwclient/mwclient";
     maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.klea ];
   };
-}
+})