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Latest *tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/04 are available.
*Recent changes*
- You can download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/15/immersive-mobile-experience/ [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-January/008483.html - Programs and bots still can't read information https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/File_metadata_cleanup_drive about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix https://tools.wmflabs.org/mrmetadata/by_size.html. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:File_metadata_cleanup_drive/How_to_fix_metadata to help you.
*Problems*
- All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86142
*Software changes this week*
- There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [4] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-January/001075.html
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