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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations 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] [2]
The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. [3]

File information cleanup

Reminder: You can help fix file information on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). 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. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.

Problems

Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [4]

Software changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) 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).
You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [5] [6]
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]
The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [8]

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-* Reminder: You can [[m:Special:MyLanguage/File metadata cleanup drive/How to fix metadata|help fix file information]] on your wiki. It will [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/file_metadata_cleanup_drive_announcement help robots understand the information]. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
+* Reminder: You can [[m:Special:MyLanguage/File metadata cleanup drive/How to fix metadata|help fix file information]] on your wiki. It will [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/07/cleaning-up-file-metadata-for-humans-and-robots/ help robots understand the information]. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
 * You can join two [[m:IRC office hours|IRC chats]] this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=12&month=11&year=2014 Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC)] and the other on [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=04&min=00&sec=0&day=13&month=11&year=2014 Thursday at 04:00 (UTC)]. 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 [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mrmetadata Labs tool]. You can report bugs and ask questions [[Talk:File metadata cleanup drive|on the talk page]].