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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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