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Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/42> are available. *Recent software changes* - You can now log into Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/>, the new tool to track bugs. Create your account <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org//auth/start/> and add your Bugzilla email address <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Creating_your_account>. We are copying the bugs from Bugzilla. Bugzilla is still open. [1] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-October/078939.html> [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T572> - You will now get the VisualEditor newsletter <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter> in your language if someone has translated it. You can add translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2014/October>. You can know about the next translations by joining the translators list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l> or asking Elitre (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)>. *Problems* - 10% of Tool Labs was down on October 7. [3] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-October/002982.html> - Tool Labs was also broken on October 11. [4] <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.labs/3005> *Software changes this week* - The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf3>) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>). - 5% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/HHVM/About> tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures> . [5] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000965.html> *Meetings* - You can join a meeting <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours> with Language developers on October 15, 2014 at 17:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141015T1700> . [6] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-October/078987.html> - There is a proposal to organize file pages better <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Structured_data>. It would use the same tools as Wikidata. You can join a meeting <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours> about it on October 16, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141016T1800> . [7] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2014-October/007371.html> - You can join a meeting <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours> about VisualEditor on October 18, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141018T1800> . 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