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59	British Rail Engineering Limited (talk)	Add sources
32,707	Coronavirus disease 2019 (talk)	Add sources
60	East Coast (train operating company) (talk)	Add sources
29	Networker (train) (talk)	Add sources
190	Diesel multiple unit (talk)	Add sources
28	British Rail Class 124 (talk)	Add sources
407	Joe Bugner (talk)	Cleanup
185	Heraklion International Airport (talk)	Cleanup
135	Santorini (Thira) International Airport (talk)	Cleanup
18	Bromley North railway station (talk)	Expand
1,129	2020s (talk)	Expand
248	The Project (Australian TV program) (talk)	Expand
82	Romanian phonology (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
526	XPO Logistics (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
52	British Rail Class 117 (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
577	Gig worker (talk)	Merge
2,625	Delta Air Lines (talk)	Merge
11	Fox World (television production company) (talk)	Merge
26	ABU Song Festivals (talk)	Wikify
34	North Finchley (talk)	Wikify
25	New Barnet (talk)	Wikify
2	Inter-Service Kart Championship (UK) (talk)	Orphan
11	Time:matters (talk)	Orphan
22	Rico Logistics (talk)	Orphan
7	Wright Cadet (talk)	Stub
35	Ana Soklič (talk)	Stub
14	Bella Bella (song) (talk)	Stub
38	Shuf (talk)	Stub
32	Transport for Wales (talk)	Stub
25	British Rail Class 123 (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 28 June 2020

News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine

Plus Swedish biographies and the big oops!

Community view: Community open letter on renaming

Reacting to the WMF's rebranding proposal.

Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd

Protests and photos from around the world...

In the media: Part collaboration and part combat

Racial justice, Facebook, LGBTQ+, Ryan Merkley, and a woman.

Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals

Many Wikimedia community members are upset about the WMF's plan to rebrand. Plus, a discussion of Fox News's reliability.

Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow

Battles, music, and animals feature prominently in this month's best content.

Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation

The RfC should keep everybody busy.

Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths

Plus Rajput, Musk, Epstein, Maxwell, Owens and Anonymous

News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice

On these issues, there is no neutral stance.

Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking

And other new research publications

Interview: What is wrong with rebranding to "Wikipedia Foundation"?

Four signers of the open letter explain.

Humour: Cherchez une femme

It's amazing what one can do.

Opinion: Trying to find COI or paid editors? Just read the news

A scientific scandal and the Ronaldo of investment banking.

On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?

A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.

In focus: Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism

The history and impact of LGBTIQ+ contributions to Wikimedia projects.

WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter

How Wikipedia is covering racial injustice, both in the outer world and on-site

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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2020)

Apelles painting Campaspe, an artwork by Willem van Haecht, circa 1630, depicting people surrounded by fine art

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Fine art

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Tech News: 2020-27

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Problems

Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [1]
Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [2]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

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16:30, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Administrator changes

Malcolmxl5

John • TheCoffee • Tim!

Creffett → GeneralNotability

DeltaQuad → AmandaNP

CheckUser changes

Bbb23

Interface administrator changes

TonyBallioni

Guideline and policy news

A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news

Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration

Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2020)

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Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

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Tech News: 2020-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [3]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).

Future changes

Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [4]
The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

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25	First London (talk)	Add sources
7	MCW Metrorider (talk)	Add sources
7	Barbados Transport Board (talk)	Add sources
8	London Buses route 117 (talk)	Add sources
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326	London Overground (talk)	Expand
262	CrossCountry (talk)	Expand
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26	St Bonaventure's (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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340	Starkiller (talk)	Merge
93	Single-subject design (talk)	Merge
110	Jonathan Pearce (talk)	Wikify
49	Lynne Franks (talk)	Wikify
158	2019 Spanish Grand Prix (talk)	Wikify
17	Eurosender (talk)	Orphan
4	Ailles rectangle (talk)	Orphan
4	Andrzej Wieckowski (talk)	Orphan
750	Tommy Fury (talk)	Stub
9	Notley High School (talk)	Stub
7	Citibus (Lubbock) (talk)	Stub
6	Alstom Coradia 1000 (talk)	Stub
12	Victoria bus station (talk)	Stub
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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2020)

The phrase "omakase" is most commonly used when dining at Japanese restaurants where the customer leaves it up to the chef to select and serve seasonal specialties. Pictured is omakase at a restaurant.

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Omakase

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Tech News: 2020-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [5]

Problems

Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [6][7]

Changes later this week

Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [8]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

Future changes

Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [9][10][11][12]

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16:29, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2020)

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Teenage rebellion

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Tech News: 2020-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

Problems

There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [13]
Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [14]
Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [15]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).

Future changes

There is a Printable version link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [16]

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19:13, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
21	East London (bus company) (talk)	Add sources
16,396	2020 Polish presidential election (talk)	Add sources
450	Aegean Airlines (talk)	Add sources
38	Big Bus Tours (talk)	Add sources
11	St Philip's Marsh depot (talk)	Add sources
5	Tourist Group (talk)	Add sources
5	Leytonstone bus station (talk)	Cleanup
27	Virgin Radio Romania (talk)	Cleanup
74	JFS (school) (talk)	Cleanup
276	Thameslink (talk)	Expand
24	London Sovereign (talk)	Expand
212	New Routemaster (talk)	Expand
23	Quality Line (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
39	Island Line (brand) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
243	Rail transport in Great Britain (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
165	Honeycomb structure (talk)	Merge
2,812	Killing of Rayshard Brooks (talk)	Merge
23	Bonn–Paris conventions (talk)	Merge
28	Finchley Road (talk)	Wikify
232	Jordan King (talk)	Wikify
35	Arnold Weinstock (talk)	Wikify
5	Bekhzod Akhmedov (talk)	Orphan
5	Allon Barsam (talk)	Orphan
3	Alexandre Paulikevitch (talk)	Orphan
122	British Rail Class 801 (talk)	Stub
40	Electro-diesel multiple unit (talk)	Stub
19	Everton Chimulirenji (talk)	Stub
12	Bounds Green TMD (talk)	Stub
136	Junrey Balawing (talk)	Stub
9	Football First (talk)	Stub

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This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2020)

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Double standard

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Tech News: 2020-31

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Recent changes

The Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [17]
The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in your local or global preferences in section Skin preferences. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems

The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [18][19]
Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [20]
Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [21]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).

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13:51, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).

Administrator changes

Red Phoenix

Euryalus • SQL

Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes

GB fan

Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news

There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

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The Signpost: 2 August 2020

Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?

Comparing Wikipedia to similar projects.

COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money

And thanks for the photo, Ghislaine!

News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin

Plus lots of affiliations!

In the media: Dog days gone bad

Pandemic, politics, and possibly paid editing.

Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy

Plus a proposed massive invasion of privacy!

Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom

soldiers, sports, and actors feature heavily this month.

Traffic report: Now for something completely different

Death and Alexander Hamilton.

Gallery: Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist

Sometimes you just have to ask.

News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users

Privacy is critical to sustaining freedom of expression and association, enabling knowledge and ideas to thrive.

Recent research: Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia

And other new research publications

Essay: Not compatible with a collaborative project

Some editors aren't.

Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil

Rest in peace.

In focus: WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy

Making Wikipedia the encyclopedia that anyone can review.

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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2020)

The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is an example of a New World crop, a crop native to the New World (mostly the Americas) before 1492 CE and not found anywhere else at that time.

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New World crops

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Tech News: 2020-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [22]
Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [23]
There is a problem with the global preferences for the "Use Legacy Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [24]
A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [25]

Changes later this week

The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [26]
Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [27]
In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [28]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).

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15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

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70	British Rail Class 155 (talk)	Add sources
419	British Rail Class 43 (HST) (talk)	Add sources
179	Xbox 360 system software (talk)	Add sources
238	British Rail Class 769 (talk)	Add sources
1,308	The Sweet (talk)	Add sources
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73	The Latymer School (talk)	Cleanup
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532	Courier (talk)	Cleanup
44	Transit pass (talk)	Expand
13	Red Arrow (bus) (talk)	Expand
16	Nekhel (talk)	Expand
67	EMD GP40-based passenger locomotives (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
121	LaserShip (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
155	Pop Max (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
147	Aalto University (talk)	Merge
7	Conceptions of logic (talk)	Merge
13	Water resources in Mexico (talk)	Merge
204	2019 Hungarian Grand Prix (talk)	Wikify
9	New Year Sprint (talk)	Wikify
74	History of the Eurovision Song Contest (talk)	Wikify
4	Alexander Haim Pekelis (talk)	Orphan
53	Anil Sahasrabudhe (talk)	Orphan
3	Alexander Kalichuk (talk)	Orphan
6	Air Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago) (talk)	Stub
36	Stop the Rock (talk)	Stub
12	Glow (Ella Henderson song) (talk)	Stub
327	Toby Tarrant (talk)	Stub
101	Andrew Whyment (talk)	Stub
5	Trinidad and Tobago Air Services (talk)	Stub

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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2020)

Abraham Ortelius's world map, from the Typus Orbis Terrarum ("Theatre of the Orb of the World") atlas, first published in 1564

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World map

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Tech News: 2020-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [29]

Problems

The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [30]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [31][32]

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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Have a very happy birthday on your special day!

Best wishes, Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 06:13, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Synoman Barris thank you! Sorry for the late reply. Class455 (talk|stand clear of the doors!) 22:58, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Have a very happy birthday on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:07, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

CAPTAIN RAJU thank you! Hope you're doing well :). Class455 (talk|stand clear of the doors!) 22:59, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

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An act is a division or unit of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, and musical theatre. Pictured is a visual representation of the three-act structure.

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If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [33]
The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [34]

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Delivery is the process of transporting goods from a source location to a predefined destination. Pictured is a man delivering charcoal by bicycle in Uganda.

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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2020)

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Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere. [39]
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The history of Asian art includes a vast range of influences from various cultures and religions. Pictured is Buddhist Temple in the Mountains, 11th century, China, ink on silk, by Li Cheng.

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