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You can read translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/43>. *Recent changes* - You can test a new system to see math using MathML <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML>. Go to your display options <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering> and choose "MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (experimental)". - You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists. [1] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70332> [2] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70268> *File information cleanup* - You can join a wiki project <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/File_metadata_cleanup_drive> to help tools read file information. It will help people reuse files. - See how to fix metadata <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/File_metadata_cleanup_drive/How_to_fix_metadata>. You can fix it by adding markers to templates and adding templates to files. - You can see a list of files <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mrmetadata/> missing machine-readable information on your wiki. - The files missing readable data are also in these categories: no license <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Files_with_no_machine-readable_license&action=edit&redlink=1> , no description <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Files_with_no_machine-readable_description&action=edit&redlink=1> , no author <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Files_with_no_machine-readable_author&action=edit&redlink=1> or no source <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Files_with_no_machine-readable_source&action=edit&redlink=1> . [3] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000968.html> *Problems* - Developers fixed a security problem <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POODLE>. 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