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Date : 28 January 2012
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We invite you all to participate in the event. Please spread the word among your friends and share our Facebook group: -- KarthikNadar
Hey, this is just a small present from my side to award you for organizing such an wonderful event, Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. You initiated it, and stood till the end. Way to go!! -- KarthikNadar 07:49, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Nicke, Thanks for joining Tag and Assess 2012. Just a quick tip for you - while assessing the articles, please add the importance scale for the subprojects as well. Take a case of Government Polytechnic Nashik, the maharastra-importance and education-importance is left blank - please update those as well. Once again, thanks a lot and wish you great time. Ssriram mt (talk) 12:37, 3 March 2012 (UTC)ssriram_mt[reply]
Okk :) Will do that. Thanks for the info.
Nicke.me (talk) 15:22, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Medical translation project
Welcome and looking forwards to working together. I will be getting more stuff ready for simple Wikipedia over the next couple of weeks. Away on holidays right now. Thanks for signing up. --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 12:26, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Photowalk
Next time, there is a Photowalk, please do consider informing me [on my talk page] please. I'd like to help out with catergorising uploads. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 14:12, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. If I do get any idea, I'll ping you. I just wish these kind of events happened when I lived in Bombay. Sad. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 18:40, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I won't mind you [Rsrikanth05] travelling all way to Mumbai in our future events ;) You will be the first one to be invited by me. -- ♪Karthik♫♪Nadar♫ 19:03, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, between there is still quite a backlog with categorization of images from the photowalk, if you u would like to do in your capacity. Here's the link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Takes_Mumbai_2
Something which can be done being far off from Mumbai ;) :)
Regards,
Nicke.me (talk) 01:34, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nicke, sure, will do my best considering all I have is this lousy Cyber Cafe to work with. Karthik, it would've been easier when I lived in Bangalore, atleast I had, this, this, and this to travel to Bombay, but now, I need to take of those from Coimbatore to Bangalore, and then to Bombay. Long journey. : ) --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:43, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hey that's absolutely fine and understandably hectic! Between,nice use of Commons in your above reply !!
Cheers, Nicke.me (talk) 18:05, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.
As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.
If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from Part One of the Assessment Guide.
Part Two of the Guide will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.
You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.
Thanks ALoottt :) Am indeed amused !! Many Thanks for your Encouragement ! Nicke.me (talk) 20:19, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
India WikiWomen Edit-a-thon
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Hi,
Wikipedia Mumbai Community 15thmeetup has been announced on 7 April 2012 @ Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Bandra.
Have a look at the event page here. Hope to see you :) -- ♪Karthik♫♪Nadar♫ 10:14, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
With the help of contributors like you, the Tag and Assess 2012 project has achieved the planned objectives. Close to 65,000 articles have been assessed and 19,000 articles have been added to the scope of the project. Please do watch out for the post tag and assess activities. Thanks a lot. Ssriram mt (talk) 00:57, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
A cup of tea for you!
Giving you a cup of tea for your edits on A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and also to enjoy the season of monsoon. Thanks! -- ♪Karthik♫♪Nadar♫ 19:35, 5 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Nicke.me for contributing as a lender of last resort to promote A. P. J. Abdul Kalam to Good Article status. Please accept this little sign of appreciation and goodwill from me, because you deserve it. Keep it up. -- ♪Karthik♫♪Nadar♫ 17:25, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hii Karthik,
Thanks alot for this gesture of appreciation ! :) This is my first GA Barnstar !
A bowl of strawberries for you!
For helping out Karthik in getting a GA on Abdul Kalam. Though you are not a major contributor on that article, you helped him with your edits, which is appreciable. Cheers, Happy Editing ahead and many more GA's! :) BPositive(talk) 06:09, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks BPositive! I enjooyed the bowl of rare fruit(for this season) that u gave me :)
Excellent. I have made some minor changes in your last edit! Are you using Wikied? --Tito Dutta✉ 20:57, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hii, yes I do.
I did not understand why you have reverted the topic 'India Independence Movement' from 'see also'(n I have read WP:also), and the point that 21 gun shots are fired once the Flag is hoisted ?? I guess the format was different, though I had previewed and there seemed no difference in the text.
Indian Independence Movement was is already linked in article body. I did not edit the gun shot portion! --Tito Dutta✉ 09:21, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
OK I saw that now. n Sorry, actually I saw the reversion you made of some other editor. That sentence is moved to 'celebration' section by user: Dwaipayanc
Hi there! Thanks for being associated with the nomination cum voting process of the WikiProject Indian Collaboration of the Month under WikiProject India. As per the voting, the article selected for collaboration for the month of August 2012 is Red Fort. Let's improve this article over the course of the month. I look forward to your contributions on the article. BPositive(talk) 14:05, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Botulism
Thanks for adding the Caya 2004 source. However, I am concerned that you appended it to claims that are not in fact supported by the source, such as the remark that honey-associated botulism is now very rare. Had I not accessed the source myself, the content would have failed WP:V. Please let me know if you require any assistance. JFW | T@lk 16:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hello User:Jfdwolff,
I meant to append it with the claim that 'Honey should not be fed to infants less than one year of age' and remove the following line with 5 % claim etc. ! However I happened to save it otherwise. Thanks! You noticed quickly :) I had to remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick.me (talk • contribs)
No worries. Good that I checked. This is wiki at work. JFW | T@lk 13:03, 14 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
(: Thanks !!
Article about Radha Thomas
Hi. I have created an article about Radha Thomas and am contemplating it to move it to the AFC space. Before that, I'd really appreciate if you could have a look and give me some inputs, suggestions and advice and hopefully a green signal :-). Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Radha_ThomasVarunr (talk) 09:16, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hii Varun !
Thanks for your message ! I had a quick look at the article and the references given by you. I would like you to have a look at Biographies of Living people and general referencing here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IRS
Also, please have a look at verifiability that emphasises WHY the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion to an encyclopaedia.
Thank you! I've made more changes. I think I'm still lacking in the citations formatting, but I'll get there :-) Varunr (talk) 11:46, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
WikiWomen's Collaborative
WikiWomen Unite!
Hi Nicke.me! Women around the world who edit and contribute to Wikipedia are coming together to celebrate each other's work, support one another, and engage new women to also join in on the empowering experience of shaping the sum of all the world's knowledge - through the WikiWomen's Collaborative.
As a WikiWoman, we'd love to have you involved! You can do this by:
We can't wait to have you involved, and feel free to drop by our meta page (under construction) to see how else you can get involved!
Can't wait to have you involved! SarahStierch (talk) 00:59, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Wiki women workshop
It's been going great.Everyone is very approachable. You have been great help to me. Thanks alot for all the things i learned from you.
Thank You.
Regards
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Thank you Sonant !
Leave me a Message for any help,anytime :) Nicke.me (talk) 08:32, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Wiki Women's Workshop
Heya Nicke.me, I just wanted to drop by and wish you all the very best for the upcoming Workshop. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 12:50, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
A cup of coffee for you!
Thanks for fixing the typo in the Seattle meetup page. Are you in Seattle? I am from Seattle and my friends are there. I am planning a trip to Mumbai in a few months. Do you meet with Wikipedians in Mumbai? Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:22, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hello ! Thanks for the Coffee :)
No, am not in Seattle. Based in Mumbai currently. Trip to Mumbai? Thats' Nice :) We too have regular meetups here. Would be a great occurrence to meet you and your friends. Are they too Wikipdians?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicke.me (talk • contribs) 19:44, 20 November 2012
I have a friend in Varanasi who is learning Wikipedia and he might be joining me. I found your meetup page at Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai. I am not yet sure of my travel dates but if I can, I will come to your regular meeting and if not, I will write to your group anyway to see if anyone is free to meet while I am in town. I am glad to see that your group has meetings every month! Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:24, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Sure ! An e-mail would be favourable, after your travel plans are fixed. A Wikipedian in Varanasi ! That sounds really cool.. That's the magic of Wikipedia arena - generating vast networks !
Thanks for the invitation! It's my pleasure to be a part of a wiki meetup.
The Meetup Link that you provided on my talk page isn't accessible yet , request you to update the link.
Thanks!
Hey !
The wikimedia.in site(housing the Meetup page) was down in the morning. I guess that's why it did not open. Can you try again? Nicke.me (talk) 10:25, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the update Nicke.me, the meetup page is working fine now, my bad, I failed to realize that the entire wikimedia site was down! — Preceding unsigned comment added by NitRav (talk • contribs) 22:58, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
No issues.. Do sign-up if you are willing to attend :) Nicke.me (talk) 18:04, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks
Hey Nick! Thanx for the barnstar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Urbashi (talk • contribs) 04:37, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your interest in m:Wikimedia Medicine. We hope to create a non profit corporation to promote the aims of the Wikimedia Movement within the topic domain of medicine. This means we plan to promote the creation and release of "health care information in all languages" under an open license. This will be done primarily via speaking and collaborating with both individuals and organizations who share our goal. We are working on a number of collaborations already and are open to more ideas.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 00:43, 30 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I hope we can manage to discuss Science GLAM soon, but today, I am contacting you on another matter - it is now one year since WikiProject Open Access was started by User:Bluerasberry on January 10, 2012. Since then, the project has advanced modestly, but we have not interacted much. For the coming year, we certainly want to improve on that.
We also plan to overhaul the project pages to make them more conducive to collaboration, and we are pondering the idea of expanding the concept of a WikiProject Open Access to projects other than the English Wikipedia, e.g. to other languages or to Wikimedia Commons. You are warmly invited to add your voice to all that. We would also appreciate if you would share some of your OA-related activities by way of our news ticker or via the monthly Open Access report that is part of the GLAM newsletter (to which you can subscribe here), or as you see fit otherwise.
Thanks for being part of the project, and looking forward to more interaction. With a smile, --Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 00:01, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Daniel,
Warm New Year Greetings! Thanks for this note. I'm currently travelling. Will get back to the project as soon am back :)
Is there any contributer of GLAM project in tamilnadu. i want to coordinate with them.. get them contact mail or any — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thephoenix2k12 (talk • contribs) 20:07, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
An award for you!
Women's day award
Thank you for all of the effort you put into the International Women's day edit-a-thon! I am presenting you with the Women's day award for your contributions to the edit-a-thon. Your contributions are highly appreciated!-- Netha(talk) 20:35, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hungary report: Article writing contest about statistics and related sciences
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Mexico report: Fotofestín activities; DIY scanner project progress and Winners of the Holy Week in Mexico photo contest at ITESM Campus Ciudad de Mexico
Netherlands report: GLAM WIKI UK; Wiki loves Sound; Wikipedian in Residence; Wiki loves Libraries; Wikipedia Training National Museum of Ethnology
Spain report: Longest edit-a-thon ever at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona
Sweden report: GLAM handbook version 3; conferences; hackathons and Wiki Loves Public Art
Switzerland report: Swiss Federal Archives looking for a Wikipedian in Residence
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Mexico report: Edit-a-thon of Museo Soumaya; simulthaneous edit-a-thon in Argentina, Mexico and Spain about Spanish Exile; new cultural partner of Wikimedia México
Netherlands report: Music edit-a-thon; Library workshops; Videos, maps and Japanese art donations; Wiki Loves Earth
Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments is being prepared for Sweden
This is the first of a series of newsletters for Wikiproject Medicine's Translation Task Force. Our goal is to make all the medical knowledge on Wikipedia available to the world, in the language of your choice.
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Spotlight - Simplified article translation
Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.
Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:
We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.
What's happening?
IEG grant
CFCF - "IEG beneficiary" and editor of this newsletter.
I've (CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.
Wikimania 2014
For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.
Integration progress
There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish. What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.
Swedish Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and free encyclopedia of medical content. We want Wikipedia to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that. Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May.
Dutch Dutch translation carries with it special difficulties, in part due to the premises in which the Dutch Wikipedia is built upon. There is great respect for what previous editors have created, and deleting or replacing old content can be frowned upon. In spite of this there are success stories: Anafylaxie.
Polish Translation and integration into Polish also comes with its own unique set of challenges. The Polish Wikipedia has long been independent and works very hard to create high quality contentfor Polish audience. Previous translation trouble has lead to use of unique templates with unique formatting, not least among citations. Add to this that the Polish Wikipedia does not allow template redirects and a large body of work is required for each article. (This is somewhat alleviated by a commissioned Template bot - to be released). - List of articles for integration
Arabic The Arabic Wikipedia community has been informed of the efforts to integrate content through both the general talk-page as well as through one of the major Arabic Wikipedia facebook-groups: مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربي, something that has been heralded with great enthusiasm.
Integration guides
Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.
Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [4]
News in short
To come
Medical editor census - Medical editors on different Wikis have been without proper means of communication. A preliminary list of projects is available here.
During August we have translated Disease and it is now live in more than 60 different languages! To help us focus on African languages Rubric has donated a large number of articles in languages we haven't previously reached–so a shout out them, and Ian Henderson from Rubric who's joined us here at Wikipedia. We're very happy for our continued collaboration with both Rubric and Translators without Borders!
At Wikimania there were so many enthusiastic people jumping at the chance to help out the Medical Translation Project, but unfortunately not all of them knew how to get started. That is why we've been spending considerable time writing and improving guides! They are finally live, and you can find them at our home-page!
New sign up page!
We're proud to announce a new sign up page at WP:MTSIGNUP! The old page was getting cluttered and didn't allow you to speficy a role. The new page should be easier to sign up to, and easier to navigate so that we can reach you when you're needed!
Style guides for translations
Translations are of both full articles and shorter articles continues. The process where short articles are chosen for translation hasn't been fully transparent. In the coming months we hope to have a first guide, so that anyone who writes medical or health articles knows how to get their articles to a standard where they can be translated! That's why we're currently working on medical good lede criteria! The idea is to have a similar peer review process to good article nominations, but only for ledes.
Some more stats
In July, 18 full article translations went live (WP:RTT), and an additional 6 simplified versions went live (WP:RTTS)!
We have a number of new lead integrators into Dutch, Polish, Arabic and Bulgarian, with more to come in smaller languages! (Find them here old sign up page)
Belgium report: Workshops for collection holders across Europe; Founding event of Wikimedia Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg; Plantin-Moretus Museum; Edit-a-thon at faculty library in Ghent University; Image donation UGentMemorie; Upcoming activities
France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; mass upload; Musée de Bretagne
UK report: Progress on an image release from the Bodleian; National Library of Scotland residency comes to an end; and Glasgow Museums develop a Wiki Working Group
USA report: Wikipedian at the Centers for Disease Control - NIOSH
Open Access report: New Topic Page; Open Access and the humanities; Wikimania & Wikidata
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Belgium report: Heroines Wikipedia workshop addressing the Gender Bias; Public Domain Day Celebration; Wikidata meeting & workshop; FOSDEM: MediaWiki, Wikidata and more
Hi Nicke.me. I'm an editor (not very active till now) of the Italian Wikipedia, where the gender gap is a real issue. I'm trying to participate to an IEG with the project "Women are everywhere". You will find the draft at this link https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_are_everywhere It would be great if you could have a look at it. I need any kind of suggestion or advice to improve it. Support or endorsement would be fantastic. Many thanks, --Kenzia (talk) 12:04, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, an open access peer reviewed journal with no charges, invites you to participate
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Did you know about Wikiversity Journal of Medicine? It is an open access, peer reviewed medical journal, with no publication charges. We welcome you to have a look. Feel free to participate.
You can participate in any one or more of the following ways:
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Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 55 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African wildlife articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance. If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing any article related to a topic you often work on, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Might be a good way to work on fleshing out articles you've long been meaning to target and get rewarded for it! Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 04:57, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 11:23, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!
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