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No action on CfD closures

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You seem to have a backlog of CfD closures you haven't handled through WP:CFDW or its talk page, such as Category:Cenozoic horses. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:19, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@LaundryPizza03: Thank you for the note; I'll see what I can do :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 02:21, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I came across Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_October_9#Category:Constituencies_of_the_National_Assembly_of_Botswana_(historic) and implemented it myself, as it was fiddly. – Fayenatic London 10:16, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, Fayenatic london! HouseBlaster (he/they) 00:58, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

License change request

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Hi, I got an email from you about changing the license on this image ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Msu-Languagebuilding-seabhcan.JPG) - Happy to change it, but I can't remember how to do that... ... Seabhcan 09:54, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Seabhcan! Thank you so so much for your quick response! The easiest way to do this is to simply reply here and say "I intended to release the image under the GFDL". I can take care of the wiki-code bits. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 16:20, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin October Issue 1

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of October 2024. Please help Translate.

Upcoming and current events and conversations

WikiArabia 2024
WikiArabia 2024

Talking: 2024 continues


Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure

See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org


Annual Goals Progress on Equity

See also a list of all movement events: on Meta


Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity

See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog


Board and Board committee updates

See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter


Other Movement curated newsletters & news

See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · other newsletters:

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:30, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Messed up CFDW formatting

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I wanted to tell you that the syntax you added to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working concerning the Indian Jain poets categories appears malformed. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 18:56, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you; I will investigate. HouseBlaster (he/they) 20:07, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-42

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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.

Updates for editors

  • The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [1][2]
  • WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [3]
  • View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [4]
  • Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [5]
  • Advanced item Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [6]

In depth

  • The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
  • The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.

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Hi

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Hi. I was about to suggest here for "Transgender identity in", based on Catégorie:Transidentité par pays [fr] and Categoría:Identidades trans por país [es]. Is it possible to reopen/relist as it was recently closened and not moved yet? --MikutoH talk! 00:54, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MikutoH: Ack. The bot is moving them as I type this (and had already moved some when I started to write this message) The bot has moved the categories, and there is no way to stop the bot while it is currently processing things (besides blocking it, which is a very extreme measure). Reversing and reopening the move would be more work than simply renominating it (User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massXFD will help with a batch nomination). Therefore, I would recommend opening a fresh move request, making it clear why this is taking place immediately after the last one and potentially pinging the participants in the previous discussion. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 01:05, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder: GA backlog drive

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Hello! Just a reminder that, if you have time, you are welcome to join the GA backlog drive; it runs until the end of October. You are receiving this message because you signed up on the drive page but have not yet listed any reviews. We hope to see you there! Either way, happy editing! —Ganesha811 (talk) 05:49, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, User:JessZoiti/sandbox

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Hello, HouseBlaster. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "sandbox".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 02:42, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy vanishing

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In case you should encounter a similar situation again, please note that courtesy vanishing is a courtesy, not a right. Blocked users are not eligible. "A courtesy vanishing may be implemented when a user in good standing decides not to return" (my emphasis). Thanks, Cabayi (talk) 16:23, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Cabayi for the correction. Apologies for my confusion :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 19:15, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aspersions

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I appreciate your thoroughness against aspersions [7], even when they consist of an unchallenged claim about the difficulty of finding more diffs that exhibit the same pattern of behaviour which I have supported with evidence. I was able to find another one, though [8], but I will look no further because it is time-consuming and also unnerving. However, I would be grateful if you could also remove Elinruby's aspersions against me. That would be fair and due. You will find an (incomplete) list in this edit [9]. Note that in the fourth one in the list (off-Wiki campaign) Elinruby mentions evidence privately submitted to the ArbCom; however, given the private nature of the evidence and the public nature of the accusation, it is aspersions and should be removed, please. Gitz (talk) (contribs) 05:57, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gitz. Requests like this should be made to the clerk team as a whole, not just an individual. I am going to ask you to move this to either the workshop talk (or, if you wish to be discrete about it, which I would completely understand, by email to clerks-l@lists.wikimedia.org). Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 22:11, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
OK, thank you for the suggestion. Gitz (talk) (contribs) 23:11, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 19 October 2024

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Group eponymous template categorization

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Have we a quick way to remove these from their eponymous categories? Pretty much every single one of them is a member of their group's eponymous category and apparently shouldn't be. RachelTensions (talk) 01:59, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi RachelTensions! Unfortunately, I am unaware of a tool that would do something like that. Someone at WP:AWBREQ might have a better idea, but this seems difficult (mostly because you are not looking for the same character sequence in each template, if that makes sense). Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 02:25, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah yes one of our AWB friends might be able to figure it out, thank you!
RachelTensions (talk) 02:26, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-43

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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.

Weekly highlight

  • The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents

Updates for editors

  • Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
  • Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
  • View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [10][11][12][13][14]
  • It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "25 October 2024". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [15][16]
  • Advanced item Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [17]
  • The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [18]

In depth

  • The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
  • The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

Meetings and events

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:49, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

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The Admin Elections barnstar
Thanks for removing the {{Notice}}s on the candidate pages for the discussion period. I was wondering why my regex in AWB wasn't picking anything up ;-) –Novem Linguae (talk) 00:17, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You are definitely getting this barnstar back at you after this thing is done, Novem Linguae. Thank you for everything you have done to get WP:EFA (which is the superior shortcut) off the ground :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 00:18, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, want a bonus quest? I think we should go through every candidate page and delete =====General comments=====. It's redundant and is making the table of contents at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Discussion phase look meh. Thoughts? :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 00:36, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Definitely agree.  Doing... HouseBlaster (he/they) 00:39, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done, and thank you for the suggestion, Novem Linguae :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 00:42, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Amazing work. I'm doubling your salary! :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 00:43, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Whoot! These checks are getting so big ;) HouseBlaster (he/they) 01:10, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator Elections: Discussion phase

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Administrator Elections | Discussion phase

The discussion phase of the October 2024 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

  • October 22–24 - Discussion phase
  • October 25–31 - SecurePoll voting phase
  • November 1–? - Scrutineering phase

During October 22–24, we will be in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages will open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Discussion phase.

On October 25, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close again to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote tallies cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's tally during the election. The suffrage requirements are different from those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for an indeterminate amount of time, perhaps a week or two. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose). As this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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Growth News, October 2024

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Current work

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Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module

We will add a new module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version on beta wikis and we will soon start an A/B test on our pilot wikis. This module will only display on the Newcomer Homepage if communities decide to utilize it, so learn how to configure the Community Updates module, or share your thoughts on the project's talk page.

One design concept aimed to increase constructive activation

Constructive activation experimentation

After showcasing early design ideas at Wikimania, we conducted user testing of design prototypes. We now aim to engage communities in further discussions and plan to run a targeted experiment, presenting a structured task within the reading view to logged-in new account holders with zero edits.

Community Configuration

This Community Configuration extension was developed to help communities customize wiki features to meet their unique needs. The Growth team is now helping other Wikimedia Foundation teams make their products configurable:

  • The Moderation Tools team now provides Community Configuration for Automoderator. (T365046)
  • Certain Babel extension settings will be configurable soon. (T328171)

Future work

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As part of the Growth team annual plan, we will continue to investigate ways to increase constructive activation on mobile, while also working with Data Products to move forward A/B testing functionality via the Metrics Platform.

Community events

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  • Growth team members presented Community Configuration: Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together at Wikimania (slides). The session recording is available to watch on YouTube. This session provided an update on the Community Configuration project and introduced details about the upcoming features that communities will soon be able to configure. Representatives from the Moderator Tools, Editing, Web, and Campaigns teams shared their plans for utilizing Community Configuration in the future. Following these presentations, the WMF Growth team's Benoît Evellin and Martin Urbanec answered audience questions.
  • Habib Mhenni gave a presentation of how mentorship works at WikiIndaba 2024. The recording is available.

Stay informed

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Invitation to participate in a research

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Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Wikipedia, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this anonymous survey.

You do not have to be an Administrator to participate.

The survey should take around 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement .

Please find our contact on the project Meta page if you have any questions or concerns.

Kind Regards,

WMF Research Team

BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:23, 23 October 2024 (UTC) [reply]

Question from Dman1423 (23:13, 24 October 2024)

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i hate isochrone --Dman1423 (talk) 23:13, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dman1423. Please only use the "ask a question" feature to ask questions. Thanks, HouseBlaster (he/they) 23:55, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin October Issue 2

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of October 2024. Please help translate.

Upcoming and current events and conversations
Talking: 2024 continues

WikiForHumanRights
WikiForHumanRights


Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

  • Tech News: In issue 2024/42, read about the removal of the Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow), work on making text searches easier, and more. In issue 2024/43, read about improvements to mobile app navigation, temporary accounts pilot details, the Content Discovery Experiments, and more updates.
  • MediaWiki: The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available and include updates on Wikimedia’s authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, and more.
  • CampaignEvents extension: The CampaignEvents extension provides tools to create, manage, and promote collaborative activities on the wikis, such as edit-a-thons, meetups, and more. You can visit the Deployment page to learn how to get the extension on your wiki.
  • Research: The Research team and collaborators are launching new research on editors with extended rights.
  • New Content Translation feature: Translators using Content Translation on wikis with mobile support can now customize their article suggestions with 41 filtering options. This feature helps translators find relevant articles based on their interests for translation.
  • Wikifunctions: We are collecting feedback on the "About" widget that shows more info about the functions. Also, status updates from October 11 and October 17.
  • Temporary Accounts: Temporary accounts will begin rolling out on October 29 to production wikis with an aim to do a complete deployment by May 2025. You can see the deployment plan and timeline on the project page. As we rollout this change, it is likely that some tools (gadgets, user scripts, templates and bots) will be impacted by it. We have a developer FAQ to help developers with making necessary changes to their maintained tool(s). Please let us know on our talk page if you have any tool in mind that may need updating or if you need help with updating your maintained tools.
  • Knowledge is Human campaign: The Communications department has just launched a public awareness campaign (landing page) to showcase how real articles are edited and highlight Wikipedia as a source of information ahead of the 2024 “Big English” fundraising drive.


Annual Goals Progress on Equity
See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki


Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog


Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter


Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · other newsletters:

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:52, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator Elections: Voting phase

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Administrator Elections | Voting phase

The voting phase of the October 2024 administrator elections has started and continues until 23:59 31st October 2024 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

  • October 25–31 - SecurePoll voting phase
  • November 1–? - Scrutineering phase

In the voting phase, the candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies for a vote will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote tallies cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's tally during the election. The suffrage requirements are different from those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for an indeterminate amount of time, perhaps a week or two. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose). As this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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