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Contents
- 1 Wiki Loves Pride 2016
- 2 2016 GA Cup-Finals
- 3 Text change
- 4 Circinus
- 5 The Signpost: 05 June 2016
- 6 Toy Story 2
- 7 June 2016 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter
- 8 Celebrating Pride @ Women in Red
- 9 Disambiguation link notification for June 14
- 10 NPP / AfC
- 11 Thank You!
- 12 The Signpost: 15 June 2016
- 13 Books & Bytes - Issue 17
- 14 Women scientists template?
- 15 Lyra
- 16 New edits to change the lead of Jerusalem
- 17 Welcome to the Hall of Fame!
- 18 Congratulations...
- 19 Well-deserved
- 20 Could use some help
- 21 CONGRATS
- 22 Wikipedian of the year
- 23 PONY!
- 24 Your GA nomination of Jean Bartik
- 25 A kitten for you!
- 26 Vera Popova
- 27 Your GA nomination of Jean Bartik
- 28 You've got mail!
- 29 Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News
- 30 2016 GA Cup-Wrap Up
- 31 You've got mail!
- 32 Your GA nomination of Jean Bartik
- 33 The Signpost: 04 July 2016
- 34 hi
- 35 Disambiguation link notification for July 6
- 36 Hope imitation is flattery
- 37 A bigger kitten for you!
- 38 hello
- 39 The Signpost: 21 July 2016
- 40 Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project
- 41 Indigenous women & Polar women editathons
- 42 Kevin
- 43 Nomination of Janet L. Mitchell for deletion
- 44 The Signpost: 04 August 2016
Wiki Loves Pride 2016
Hi, Emily! You are invited to participate in the third annual Wiki Loves Pride campaign, which runs through the month of June. The purpose of the campaign is to create and improve content related to LGBT culture and history. How can you help?
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- Create or improve LGBT-related Wikipedia pages and showcase the results of your work here
- Document local LGBT culture and history by taking pictures at pride events and uploading your images to Wikimedia Commons
- Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)
Looking for topics? The Tasks page, which you are welcome to update, offers some ideas and wanted articles.
This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. The group's mission is to develop LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. Visit the affiliate's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's talk page.
Thanks, and happy editing! ---Another Believer (Talk) 14:41, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
2016 GA Cup-Finals
Hello, GA Cup competitors! Tuesday saw the end of Round 3. Sainsf, for the third time, won with a sizable 487 points and a shocking 29 articles reviewed. In second, MPJ-DK had 168 points and 7 reviewed articles. In second place, MPJ-DK earned 168 points with just 7 articles, and in third place, Carbrera received 137 points with just 9 articles. Our two wildcard slots went to J Milburn with 122 points and Sturmvogel 66 with 101 points. In Round 3, 65 reviews were completed! At the beginning of the GA Cup, there were 595 outstanding nominations in the GAN queue; by the end of Round 3, there were 394. Another demonstrable way in which this competition has made a difference is in the length of time articles languish in the queue. At the beginning of the GA Cup, the longest wait was over 9 months [1]; at the end of Round 3, the longest wait had decreased significantly, to a little over 5 months [2]—nothing before 2016. It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success, and for your part in helping other editors improve articles. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in the Finals for the GA Cup so that are successes continue. To qualify for the Finals, contestants had to earn the highest scores in each of the three pools in Round 3; plus, as well as the top 2 of all remaining users in all of the pools. For the Finals, users were placed in one pool of the remaining five users. To win the GA Cup, you must have the most points. The Finals started on June 1 at 0:00:01 UTC' and end on June 30 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about the Finals and the pools can be found here. A clarification: in order for the points to count, you must mark your reviews as completed; it's not up to the judges to ensure that all reviews are completed by the end of a round. We wish all the contestants the best of luck! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.
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Text change
Hey. A little confused about your change of the text to "Mifepristone alone will end approximately 50% of pregnancies; there is no evidence showing an increased rate of continued pregnancy after mifepristone with high-dose progesterone treatment."
The ref says as its conclusion "In the rare case that a woman changes her mind after starting medical abortion, evidence is insufficient to determine whether treatment with progesterone after mifepristone results in a higher proportion of continuing pregnancies compared to expectant management."[3]
This was a better summary IMO "It is unclear if anything can be done to stop an abortion due to mifepristone if a women changes her mind after taking the medication." Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:47, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
- Since there are only 6 known cases of attempted high-dose progesterone treatment post-mifepristone, there is definitely no evidence showing anything, and there's some very *very* dangerous information out there from anti-abortion groups promoting high-dose progesterone that we should not be promulgating. (also an expert in the field reviewed the changes and is very familiar with the study and agreed that the former wording is less ambiguous.) Keilana (talk) 01:12, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
- Which wording do you mean by "former wording"? Do you mean the wording you changed it to or the prior wording? Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 11:58, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
- Oof, didn't realize that was ambiguous. The expert I talked to said that the wording I changed it to is less ambiguous, and that the prior wording was less accurate. Keilana (talk) 17:33, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
- With respect to the percentage of pregnancies ended with mifepristone alone the ref says "The proportion of pregnancies continuing 1-2 weeks after mifepristone alone varied from 8% (95% CI 3-22%) to 46% (95% CI 37-56%)." I disagree that this is about 50%. We could say 54% to 92%. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:56, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Doc James: So Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy cites the percentage of pregnancies ending after mife alone as 60-80% under 49 days gestational age. (This is from the initial studies where medication abortion was conducted without any miso - Kovacs et al 1984 and Shoupe et al. 1986). Grossman et al included studies from all gestational ages where medication was used, so they're not quite comparable but I'm happy with saying 54%-92% of pregnancies end with mife alone at any gestational age and 60-80% end with mife alone under 49 days. Does that sound good to you? If you want copies of any of these sources let me know, by the way. Keilana (talk) 13:38, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
- With respect to the percentage of pregnancies ended with mifepristone alone the ref says "The proportion of pregnancies continuing 1-2 weeks after mifepristone alone varied from 8% (95% CI 3-22%) to 46% (95% CI 37-56%)." I disagree that this is about 50%. We could say 54% to 92%. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:56, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
- Oof, didn't realize that was ambiguous. The expert I talked to said that the wording I changed it to is less ambiguous, and that the prior wording was less accurate. Keilana (talk) 17:33, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
- Which wording do you mean by "former wording"? Do you mean the wording you changed it to or the prior wording? Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 11:58, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
I am not clear what you are proposing. Do you mean this [4]? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:15, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Doc James: Sorry for the confusion, I definitely made that comment pre-morning coffee. :) This is what I've proposed. Does it look ok? Keilana (talk) 01:31, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
Circinus
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- aww, thank you Gerda! Keilana (talk) 20:12, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
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Toy Story 2
You just blocked an IP editor for vandalizing Toy Story 2. They're on their 3rd IP now. Can you please block again and protect the page? EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 04:15, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
- @EvergreenFir: Hey, sorry I just saw this now. Looks like it's been taken care of! :) Keilana (talk) 18:56, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
June 2016 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors June 2016 News
Hello everyone, welcome to the June 2016 GOCE newsletter. It's been a few months since we sent one out; we hope y'all haven't forgotten about the Guild! Your coordinators have been busy behind the scenes as usual, though real life has a habit of reducing our personal wiki-time. The May backlog reduction drive, the usual coordinating tasks and preparations for the June election are keeping us on our toes! May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's record-setting backlog reduction drive. Of the 29 people who signed up, 16 copyedited at least one article, 197 copyedits were recorded on the drive page, and the copyedit backlog fell below 1,500 for the first time! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz will occur from 12 June through 18 June; the themes will be video games and Asian geography. Coordinator elections: It's election time again; how quickly they seem to roll around! Nominations for the next tranche of Guild coordinators, who will serve a six-month term that begins at 00:01 UTC on 1 July and ends at 23:59 UTC on 31 December, opens at 00:01 UTC on 1 June and closes at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. Voting takes place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. If you'd like to assist behind the scenes, please consider stepping forward; self-nominations are welcomed and encouraged. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; remember it's your Guild, and it doesn't run itself! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Thank You!
Thanks for the lovely message! I'd love to pick your brain at some point about engaging lots of different people with editing, and strategies for particularly boosting pages on women or other under-represented groups. Would it be easier to email about this? (Happy with whatever form of communication you prefer!) Thanks! Zeromonk (talk) 19:38, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Zeromonk: That sounds great! You can email me at keilanawiki gmail dot com, and I look forward to talking with you more! Keilana (talk) 01:14, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
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Books & Bytes - Issue 17
Books & Bytes
Issue 17, April-May 2016
by The Interior, Ocaasi, UY Scuti, Sadads, and Nikkimaria
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- New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more!
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Women scientists template?
Hi Emily. Would you be able to point me to a template or "ideal article" that I can model an article on, please? --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 02:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Anthonyhcole: Sure! It's going to be a bit different for an article where there's enough information to write an FA (e.g. Barbara McClintock) and an article where there isn't. A couple of articles that show the outline I use for modern scientists (18th century or later, usually) are Ynes Mexia, Tilly Edinger, and Leonora Bilger. If we're talking ancient women, Agnodice is a decent example. Does that help? Best, Keilana (talk) 04:11, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
- Yep, that's exactly what I needed. Thanks. (It's for Maree Smith.) --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 07:57, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Anthonyhcole: Yay, glad to help!! She seems like a super interesting lady, have fun writing about her! Keilana (talk) 22:10, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
- Yep, that's exactly what I needed. Thanks. (It's for Maree Smith.) --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 07:57, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
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- Thanks Montanabw. That's a fine GA you've got there. I heard Smith interviewed the other day and immediately thought, I bet that's another woman in red. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 09:49, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Anthonyhcole:, Ann T. Bowling just passed GA today after a very extensive review. It may be of use to you. Kei started it, I took it from there with her help. Montanabw(talk) 07:25, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
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Lyra
On 17 July 2012 you made this edit to the article Lyra. Unfortunately although you included a short citation to Levy (2005), you forgot to add a full citation to support it. If you still have access to the source please add a full citation to the first instance, or add it to a reference section. -- PBS (talk) 21:58, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
New edits to change the lead of Jerusalem
Hello Keilana. Please see my post at User talk:RegentsPark#New edits to change the lead of Jerusalem. You were one of the three closers of WP:Requests for comment/Jerusalem and your opinion is sought on what to do about the expiry of the freeze. The matter is in question due to a new thread at WP:AE#Debresser. Thanks, 17:17, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
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...on being one of 2 Wikipedians of the year this year! [5] Everymorning (talk) 16:25, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Well-deserved
Congratulations on Wikipedian of the Year.--S Philbrick(Talk) 16:45, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
- I join the choir! (Afraid that we will have to rename the cabal of the outcasts ;) ) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:00, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
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- Congrats Emily! And the cabal is delighted! Montanabw(talk) 18:36, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
- Many congratulations. --Tito Dutta (talk) 19:30, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
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- Congrats Emily! And the cabal is delighted! Montanabw(talk) 18:36, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Thank you all very much! :) Keilana (talk) 21:02, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
- Congratulations, wiki-daughter! So well deserved! Bravo! --Rosiestep (talk) 11:27, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
Could use some help
Greetings, Keilana. I don't think we have interacted before, but I've admired your work from afar. Since women in science is your area of expertise, I was hoping to get some help on Keity Souza Santos. I created the page based on a post on the Women in Red project page, but finding sources was a bit of a struggle, and now another user has been questioning the article's notability. I was wondering if you could take a look, and you felt it was notable, whether you could give me some pointers with respect to sources. Regards, Vanamonde93 (talk) 11:02, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Vanamonde93: I think she's notable but just barely, from the Sao Paulo award. I don't speak Portuguese so I've been unable to find anything that you haven't already. Keilana (talk) 22:04, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
- Okay, thanks anyhow! I don't speak Portuguese either, which is unfortunate. Also, congrats on your award! It's well deserved. Vanamonde93 (talk) 07:13, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
CONGRATS
ENJOY A KITTEN AFTER BEING HONORED.
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- THANK YOU I AM HOLDING A KITTEN RIGHT NOW ACTUALLY Keilana (talk) 22:00, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedian of the year
Congratulations! I've just seen here that you have been named Wikipedian of the Year together with Rosie. With all the work you have been doing on women scientists, you certainly deserve it. Now you really are famous, whatever some might think.--Ipigott (talk) 15:44, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you!!! Keilana (talk) 22:00, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
Congratulations! It's a well deserved honor. Smallbones(smalltalk) 02:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
- What Smallbones said. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 03:06, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you both! :) Keilana (talk) 14:10, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
- Yes, congrats! I just now read the Signpost headline, and thought that name sounded familiar. Nice! Softlavender (talk) 05:20, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
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A kitten for you!
Congrats! I just heard the good news!
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Vera Popova
Hi. I'm bumping into your topic today and unable to find the page I need scanned up in Google Books. I assume you have this one on your shelf, could I trouble you to confirm the article title and let me know who exactly wrote the biography for "Vera Popova" in Marilyn Ogilvie, Joy Harvey, and Margaret Rossiter (eds.), Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century. New York: Routledge, 2014; pg. 311? Please reply to my talk page if you can help, ta. Carrite (talk) 18:51, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks very much for the info, I will make the fixes to the relevant page(s). I'm actually not working on Popova but rather on the Institute for Noble Maidens, which is a fairly important topic in Russian pedagogic history that can use some TLC on Wikipedia. Thanks again. —Tim /// Carrite (talk) 19:05, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Jean Bartik
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the July 2016 GOCE newsletter. June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 12 through 18 June; the themes were video games and Asian geography. Of the 18 editors who signed up, 11 removed 47 articles from the backlog. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. Coordinator elections: The second tranche of Guild coordinators for 2016, who will serve a six-month term until 23:59 UTC on 31 December, have been elected. Jonesey95 remains as your drama-free Lead Coordinator, and Corinne and Tdslk are your new assistant coordinators. For her long service to the Guild, Miniapolis has been enrolled in the GOCE Hall of Fame. Thanks to everyone who voted in the election; our next scheduled one occurs in December 2016. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. July Drive: Our month-long July Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is now underway. Our aim is to remove articles tagged for copy-edit in April, May and June 2015, and to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from June 2016. The drive ends at 23:59 on 31 July 2016 (UTC). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdlsk. |
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2016 GA Cup-Wrap Up
Hello to our truly awesome GA Cup competitors! Thursday, June 30 saw the end of the 2016 GA Cup. It was a huge success. In the final, our five competitors reviewed an astonishing 207 articles, the most in any GA Cup final thus far. We continue to reach our goals and make a substantial impact in how quickly articles are reviewed for GA status. On March 1, the start of this competition, the article longest in the queue had languished there since June 26, 2015 [6]; in the July 1, 2016 list, the average wait length is just four months [7]. It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for their enthusiasm, and for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success. Remember that most articles can't even be considered for FA status unless it's been passed to GA first, so our efforts have created hundreds of potentials FAs. That is, as they say, a big deal. The final this time represented a real horse race between our 1st and 2nd place winners. First-time competitor (who had won all previous rounds) Sainsf earned an impressive 1456 points with 91 articles reviewed during the final. Close behind, in second place was Carbrera, also a first-time competitor, reviewed the most articles (94). Their enthusiasm was a treat to witness. Congrats to you both! The competition went relatively smoothly, with very little drama this time. We had to clarify one rule: in order for the points to count, you must mark your reviews as completed; it's not up to the judges to ensure that all reviews are completed by the end of a round. We were strict about adhering to this clarification, especially at the end of the final. We intend on stressing it in the stated rules for our next competition, which will be announced soon, so watch out for it. We also intend on applying for a grant through Wikimedia to include gift certificates for our winners, to further incentivize the GA Cup. MrWooHoo should receive special recognition for acting as our main judge, and for stepping in for the rest of the judges when real-life busyness took over. He reviewed the majority of the submissions during our final round. Thanks for your hard work, and for the hard work of all our judges. We look forward to the next competition. Again, thanks to all our competitors, and congrats to our winners. Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.
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I may not create them, but instead I will try to save ones already created: User_talk:Montanabw#First_ever_AfD_alert_of_the_day. Montanabw(talk) 03:51, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- That's awesome! You're awesome! Keep on keeping on. Keilana (talk) 20:45, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- This one is a month-long tl;dr, but new eyes might help; people are getting pretty nasty and the same debates are being repeated over and over again: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kanwal Ameen. Montanabw(talk) 03:37, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
A bigger kitten for you!
Thank you for your review of and pushing Rebecca Moore (scientist) live! I appreciate it.
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- Giant kitteh! You're so welcome!! Keilana (talk) 02:27, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
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You're beautiful. Will you marry me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:387:5:803:0:0:0:61 (talk) 07:11, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
- See, I hoped for just a second that this was my IRL sweetheart, with whom I live and own a cat, but alas. The IP geolocates to Atlanta. (Cuchlaine King will be bluelinked later today, thanks for the inspiration! <3) Keilana (talk) 22:49, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
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Kevin
Sorry to trouble you, but could you look at WP:AN#Kevin Gorman at your earliest convenience. I don't know Kevin very well, but I understand you do - all I would ask for is a conformation that what I have read is correct, nothing more. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 20:22, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
- @Ritchie333: We're working on it. If this turns out to be true, can you direct people to his talk page? I'd rather have people remembering him there, where his family can read about the impact he had on the site. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 20:24, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
Nomination of Janet L. Mitchell for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Janet L. Mitchell is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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