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Wikidata weekly summary #194

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Replicator: Wikidata import tool
  • The Facebook of German Playwrights
  • Language usage on Wikidata
  • Past: FOSDEM (slides of talk by Lucie)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata
  • Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
  • some visualizations:
    • Family tree of King Halo, race horse
    • Doctoral students of Gauss
    • Tributaries of the Danube
    • Children of Kronos
    • Influenced by Leibnitz
    • Graphs
    • Zika virus papers
  • KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
  • Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
  • Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more
  • WD-FIST now supports SPARQL queries
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
  • Query example: horses, French sculptors by year of birth
  • Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
  • Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
  • New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
• Development
  • und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
  • Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
  • Final touches on making search work on mobile
  • Finishing identifier datatype and section
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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FemtoBot

Hi,

I know you are again permitted to run bots (with limitations), so no complaint about that. It looks though as if the current setup for Femtobot doesn't produce the wanted result, if I see it correctly. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Femto Bot 7 is about UK places needing pictures, but taking at random 6 pages from the list you produced gives five with images (2LO, Jubilee Walkway, Holborn, Blackfriars Rotunda and Surrey Institution) and only one without an image (Lyon's Inn, which was demolished in 1863). The remainder of the list seems to have a similar rate of articles with images already, and also contains things like Asant\u00e9 Academy of Chinese Medicine or Bromley & Sheppard\u2019s Colleges which is probably an accent gone wrong, or Luxury real estate which isn't really a place in England, and Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics and so on. As it stands, it doesn't look to be a very useful list yet. Fram (talk) 18:50, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

See User:Femto Bot#7. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:52, 1 February 2016 (UTC).

Thanks, hadn't checked there. Fram (talk) 18:59, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting my RfA

	Hawkeye7 RfA Appreciation award
	Thank you for participating in and supporting my RfA. It was very much appreciated. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:39, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Category:Minor planet redirects

Hi. I posted a question/suggestion at Category talk:Minor planet redirects#How important is this category?. Since the cat doesn't appear to fall under the jurisdiction of WP:Astronomy (its parent is Category:Main namespace redirects), and you're its creator, I thought I'd let you know. If that talk page isn't the appropriate venue for discussion, please let me know where and I'll gladly move it. Thanks.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  17:32, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

How does relisting work in an article for deletion debate?

Hi Rich, an article I was editing listed for deletion Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Electrical_Impedance_Tomography_Reconstruction_Software. It was 'relisted' to gain more of a consensus. Does that give it another 7 days before the debate is closed? Thanks Billlion (talk) 10:12, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Loosely speaking, yes. AfDs can be closed at any time given consensus, but the standard is seven days - really I don't like "relisting" because "lack of consensus to delete" has traditionally been interpreted as "keep". All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:48, 3 February 2016 (UTC).

Thanks Rich, and for your contribution to the debate. Billlion (talk) 16:54, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Million Man Barnstar

		The Special Barnstar
		You edit a lot and not in a spammy bot-like way either but like a regular kilo-amount man. Mr. Magoo and McBarker (talk) 13:25, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Many thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:29, 3 February 2016 (UTC).

I take my barnstar back, I just noticed you had ran a bot in the past. --Mr. Magoo and McBarker (talk) 13:32, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Bots are people too! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:43, 3 February 2016 (UTC).

		The Half Barnstar
		The barnstar for still being a good editor regardless of not having a million edits by human means. Mr. Magoo and McBarker (talk) 13:44, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:18, 7 February 2016 (UTC).

Template help needed

Hi Rich.

I am active on another wiki, and there is template there that doesn't behave like I would want it to. I copied it onto User:Debresser/Testcases, and called it on User:Debresser/Sandbox.

Is there an easy way to make unused fields disappear? For example, if there is no page number available, I wouldn't need that field to be rendered at all. Please note that a relatively easy solutions is needed, because many templates from Wikipedia are not available on that wiki. Debresser (talk) 21:24, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Example implemented. You only need {{!}}. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:45, 7 February 2016 (UTC).

I though of something like that , but didn't believe it would work. Thanks a lot.

You may have noticed the category it adds, using SUBPAGE. It works on Wikipedia, as you can see at Category:X4, but on that wiki, the same code doesn't work. Do you have an explanation? I though perhaps they haven't enabled subpages on all namespaces. Could that be it? Debresser (talk) 12:41, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Presumably the sort order doesn't work. And I think you have the correct reason, for example if you preview M/F with the code for SUBPAGENAME it display "M/F" not "F". All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:15, 7 February 2016 (UTC).

Thanks. Debresser (talk) 08:20, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #195

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: HakanIST
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Open Science Meetup, Berlin
  • Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk
  • Wiki Workshop 2016 could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here (select project at the top left)
  • How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here are the stats.
  • What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
  • We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
  • Andrew updated his maps
  • We crossed edit 300,000,000!
  • Graph example: matrices
  • Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
  • Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Box Office Mojo studio ID, Box Office Mojo franchise ID, ČSFD film ID, Richter magnitude scale, moment magnitude scale
• Development
  • Search now works on mobile
  • Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
  • Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
  • Investigated further options for performance improvement (phabricator:T125502)
  • Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500)
  • More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063, phabricator:T124757)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Towards a New Wikimania results

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February events and meetups in DC

Greetings from Wikimedia DC!

February is shaping up to be a record-breaking month for us, with nine scheduled edit-a-thons and several other events:

• On Friday, February 12, NPR will host a Black History Month First Edit event.
• On Saturday, February 13 and Sunday, February 14, we're working with the Wiki Education Foundation to hold a series of four edit-a-thons at the AAAS 2016 Annual Meeting.
• On Tuesday, February 16, we're holding the Smithsonian American Art Museum and American University WikiWorkshop with Professor Andrew Lih's class.
• On Saturday, February 20, the Smithsonian American Art Museum will host the African American Artists Edit-a-Thon.
• On Friday, February 26, Howard University will host its second annual Black History Month Edit-a-Thon.
• On Saturday, February 27, we have three different events. In the morning, we're holding an Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. In the afternoon, we'll host our second February WikiSalon at Cove Dupont Circle, followed by our monthly dinner meetup at Vapiano.

We hope to see you at one—or all—of these events!

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Metrics

Thank you! --Rosiestep (talk) 14:04, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Rich, Can you help me with Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Metrics? I think I've doubled up a lot of names for January and February. Can you sort them out and remove the duplicates? Thank you. --Rosiestep (talk) 07:07, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

 Done All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:28, 12 February 2016 (UTC).

Template:WikiProjectBanner Shell listed at Redirects for discussion

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Multiple issues/message

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Lang

I'd encourage you to keep sandboxing your changes to {{Lang}} and keep it in synch with any updates to that template. We'll need the functionality you built eventually even if there's one stonewaller for now. The upcoming User:SMcCandlish/WikiProject English Language will have a use for them. PS: Please feel free to sign on as a participant at the draft project. I'd like to arrive at WP:WikiProject Council/Proposals already with the needed number of participants for passage to be ensured. (It seems like a no-brainer, but a similar project was created and never promoted, and was stillborn, and someones with anti-diacritics agenda tried to have a "WikiProject English" before it was MfDed as WP:POLEMIC, so there might be lingering prejudice against it).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  08:37, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #196

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
  • Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
  • We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
  • WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
  • Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
  • WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
  • Autolist now supports SPARQL
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
  • A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
  • Hay created a new property browser
  • Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression, defining formula, WomenWriters ID, lowest atmospheric pressure
• Development
  • Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
  • UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
  • Work on properly linking identifiers
  • Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
  • Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
  • Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
  • Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
  • Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
• Monthly Tasks
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  • Help develop the next summary here!
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Help & Advice

Hi,

I am a new contributor to Wikipedia. Contributed an article on Tax which needs to be reviewed. Advice. Ifabi2016 (talk) 13:17, 16 February 2016 (UTC) ---

Christopher Zeeman

Hi Rich, the bio now says that he died3 days ago. I can't find any independent corroboration. Have you seen anything? Billlion (talk) 20:31, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Just got confirmation http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/news/sir-christopher-zeeman-frs Billlion (talk) 20:43, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

That's sad, I think of him from time to time. I worked with him on the Maths Master Classes at the Royal Institution one year. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:57, 16 February 2016 (UTC).

Redirect categorization

Hi Rich Farmbrough! You've been interested in redirect categorization and the This is a redirect template in the past, so I wanted to let you know that there is a discussion at Template talk:This is a redirect#One parameter that might interest you.  Good faith! Paine  20:40, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Please, your feedback is required

Hello. Yesterday, I wrote Category_talk:Pages_where_template_include_size_is_exceeded#User_pages_modified_in_2016 but nobody answered: probably due to some overflow of the messaging system. Therefore, I made a smaller second try with Category_talk:Pages_where_template_include_size_is_exceeded#User_pages_modified_in_2016_.282nd_attempt.29. Please tell me if you received a ping for the first attempt, and/or a ping for the second one. Thanks in advance. Pldx1 (talk) 12:49, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

I received the second message. BTW "greetings" is the correct spelling. I changed a bunch of them, but not all. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:13, 18 February 2016 (UTC).

HTML comments

<!-- this is a comment -- but this isn't --> However the renderer/parser treats the whole thing as a comment and strips it out.

<!-- this is a closed comment -- > But neither the renderer nor the browser treat it as such.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:24, 19 February 2016 (UTC).

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Speedy deletion nomination of Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital

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Invitation

	Hello, Rich Farmbrough. You are invited to join WikiProject Food and drink, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of food, drink and cuisine topics. Please check out the project, and if interested feel free to join by adding your name to the member list. North America1000 09:59, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon

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	Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red Sponsor: Art+Feminism 1 to 31 March 2016

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Adding list and finishing off the Global names Index?

Hey Rich, thank you for helping with the Global Names Index and changing the first few letters with the newer more appropriate search. I was thinking of adding the rest of the letters from the source Raul created for me: [1], however they are set using the old search feature. Has it been easy for you to change the list with the letters A? I was thinking of adding the rest of the letters from the list but I was wondering if you have scripts or an easier method to change them to the newer method? Otherwise I would be happy to add them myself and then maybe you can change them the way you did with the first 10 A pages? Maybe you can make a suggestion? Kind regards.Calaka (talk) 01:12, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

OK, there are various ways of approaching this. The {{Search species}} template is a bit of a hack, because uses (apart from Wikispecies) mainly plant sources.

What we really need are selective searches based on the appropriate resources. This would have to be decided at the granularity of genus. I am thinking of sources such as the Bulbophyllum checklist (http://bulbophyllum-checklist.bulbophyllum.at/) or Compagno for sharks (which is now online! http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/ad122e/ad122e00.HTM).

And hence the template size issue will return, probably. It might also be worth looking at the GBIF to see if it has changed over the years.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:28, 21 February 2016 (UTC).

Ah excellent, would any of the ones from the GNI be appropriate as a search feature (see this list: [2]).

Further to this, I would be happy of shortening the number of species per page (as I feel there doesn't have to be so many in a page if it makes the page sluggish and bad to access).Calaka (talk) 01:33, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I had WoRMS and Fishbase in mind, as well as EOL. There are also many other resources, including taxonomic scratchpads at the Natural History Museum. I probably have some more listed somewhere, and who knows there may be a Wikipedia article List of taxonomic databases or some such. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:35, 21 February 2016 (UTC).

I have a note for yeasts, but it seems this is paywalled. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:49, 21 February 2016 (UTC).

And here is the Index Fungorum. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:19, 21 February 2016 (UTC).

Ok I am going to be bold and touch up the template. I will let you know how I go. :)Calaka (talk) 03:05, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Okay I added a whole bunch, might need help with the syntax in the template so each species can be searched in the website.Calaka (talk) 03:45, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Bluerinse listed at Redirects for discussion

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A kitten for the helpful pixie bot

Bots need kittens too

Coolabahapple (talk) 15:46, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! I'm sure HPB will appreciate some frolicking as it awakes from slumber. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:48, 21 February 2016 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #197

Wikidata weekly summary #186

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
  • Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
  • Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
  • Timeline of Zika papers
  • A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
  • The museum map now works for all countries
  • Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
  • Wikidata BEACON has been switched to use SPARQL
  • Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias
  • Reasonator has been switched to SPARQL and got new examples
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Strand orientation, perimeter, sidekick of, bowling style, acceptable daily intake, operating area, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID, Free Software Directory entry, Sandbox-External identifier
  • Newest WikiProjects: Religions, Award
  • Query example: natural numbers
• Development
  • The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (phabricator:T2708)
  • The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers
  • Input needed on caching for the query service
  • Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
  • We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
  • Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095)
  • More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
  • Wikidata Query Service now supports all commonly used prefixes by default, without explicit declaration.
  • wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Ref

Sorry, not entirely sure what I did.

Mcoles92 (talk) 16:51, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks

Ah my bad. Cheers bro

Mcoles92 (talk) 16:53, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Mildred Masterson McNeilly

Are you sure about the pseudonym? I've found a book source giving "Glenn Kelly" - two ns, no e in surname. PamD 13:24, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Yes you are correct. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:04, 27 February 2016 (UTC).

But you've now removed my sourced version from the text of the article - did you mean to remove your earlier version? PamD 16:46, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

I meant to do this. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:36, 27 February 2016 (UTC).

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Wikidata weekly summary #198

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata makes Wikipedia a database. Let the fun begin
  • Bringing the world's cultural heritage online
  • In search of French towns on Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
  • Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
  • A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage
  • Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of being vandalism.
  • Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
  • The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports: without claims by site.
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Köppen climate classification, superhuman feature or ability, married name, name, GPU, Wikidata usage instructions, autores.uy database id, stroke, bore, fee, production designer, in work, quantitative metrical pattern, used metre, recording or performance of, Italian Senate of the Republic ID
  • Query example: battles
• Development
  • Wikidata Query Service has been upgraded to Blazegraph 2.0
  • Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings by Gustav Klimt
  • More groundwork for Commons support
  • Fixed a bug with slashes in URLs for identifiers (phabricator:T128078)
  • Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (phabricator:T128075)
  • More performance work
  • In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (phabricator:T125712)
  • More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
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  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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