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Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/46> are available. *Recent software changes* - You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [1] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend/WikiGrok> [2] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72465> - The MediaWiki API <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page> now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net <https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=mediawiki-api> . [3] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2014-October/000071.html> *File information cleanup <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/File_metadata_cleanup_drive>* - Reminder: You can help fix file information <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/File_metadata_cleanup_drive/How_to_fix_metadata> on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/07/cleaning-up-file-metadata-for-humans-and-robots/>. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them. - You can join two IRC chats <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours> this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=12&month=11&year=2014> and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=04&min=00&sec=0&day=13&month=11&year=2014>. You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki. - You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mrmetadata>. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:File_metadata_cleanup_drive>. *Problems* - Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [4] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-November/003099.html> *Software changes this week* - The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf7>) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>). - You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [5] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52181> [6] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52179> - The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [7] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/170126/> - The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. 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