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Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/14> are available. *Recent changes* - You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59732> - You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62768>[3] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid> [4] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Design/Reference_Dialog#Auto-filled_Web_Citations> - All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35890> - You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93322> - VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93204> *Changes this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf23> of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap> ). - VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93386> - You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93210> - You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Gather/FAQ> . [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91341> - You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [11] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52206> - VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [12] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T57769> [13] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T61647> [14] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52100> [15] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51452> *Meetings* - You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IRC> on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=31&month=03&year=2015> . [16] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005668.html> - You can read the notes <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2015-03-25> from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team. - You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=01&month=04&year=2015>. 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