Wikimedia Hackathon 2018/Participant List
Complete this table if you want to share your participation. See also this etherpad for social activities.
| Name | Affiliation | Interests | Best way to contact you | What would you like to learn? | What help does your project need? | Anything else to add? jokes? Quotes? |
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| Arturo Borrero Gonzalez | Wikimedia Foundation, Cloud Services team | Cloud Services, Linux, Networking, Servers, Open Source, Open Knowledge | aborrero wikimedia.org
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I also love outdoor adventures | ||
| Dario Taraborelli | Wikimedia Foundation | WikiCite, Wikimedia Research, Wikidata and Wikibase | dariowikimedia.org or @ReaderMeter
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any project related to data quality in Wikidata | see the WikiCite track for projects you can help with. | I might also be working on data models/workflows for a genealogical Wikibase. @Samwilson and Jdlrobson: any taker? |
| Gilles Dubuc | Wikimedia Foundation | Web performance, media files | gilleswikimedia.org
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Commons users/admins for advice | ||
| BenoĂźt Evellin | Wikimedia Foundation | Communities, newcomers first steps | trizekwikimedia.org
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any experiences and initiatives about new users | ||
| Marios Magioladitis | Wikimedia Community User Group Greece | Bots, AWB | Special:EmailUser/Magioladitis | |||
| Nuria | Wikimedia Foundation | Analytics | ||||
| John Vandenberg | Wikimedia Indonesia | Indonesia, pywikibot, Wikisource, GSoC, GCI, Developer Relations | jayvdbgmail.com or https://gitter.im/jayvdb
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| Lucas Werkmeister | Wikimedia Germany | Wikidata | lucas.werkmeisterwikimedia.de, @LucasWerkmeistr
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| LĂ©a Lacroix | Wikimedia Germany | Wikidata, lexicographical data, documentation | lea.lacroixwikimedia.de, @Auregann
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I will take care of the documentation sprint, join us if you want to work on documentation! | ||
| Tpt | Télécom ParisTech | Wikisource, Wikidata... | Special:EmailUser/Tpt | all new great projects related to Wikidata and Wikibase | Help for Wikisource related things (improve the VisualEditor experience, code refactoring, deeper integration with Wikidata...) | |
| Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Foundation | Community metrics; Phabricator; Helping new developers | see User:AKlapper (WMF) | |||
| GergĆ Tisza | Wikimedia Foundation | All things MediaWiki | see user page | |||
| Eddie Greiner-Petter | Volunteer | Mediawiki, Puppet (lately esp. Apache conf) | see user page | pywikibot, more puppet stuff | Anyone experienced with extension deployment for Extension:ThrottleOverride | |
| Marshall Miller | Wikimedia Foundation | New editor experiences and retention; using data to make product decisions | mmillerwikimedia.org
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Projects related to new user onboarding, Articles for Creation, mentorship between editors | ||
| Michael Holloway | Wikimedia Foundation | APIs and services, maps, multimedia, Wikimedia Commons, Dockerizing MediaWiki (e.g., mediawiki-containers) | mhollowaywikimedia.org
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more about Structured Data on Commons | ||
| Bernd Sitzmann | Wikimedia Foundation | APIs and services, web stuff | berndwikimedia.org or bearND on IRC
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| Amir Sarabadani | Wikimedia Germany | Wikidata, ORES, mediawiki, UI standardisation (OOUIfiction) | Ladsgroupgmail.com
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| Tobias1984 | Wikimedia Austria | Wikidata, API, Rust, | tobias47n9egmail.com
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Good ways of self-hosting a Wikibase instance | I am mentoring during the hackathon. I can probably help with most types of projects. If someone is interested in Rust we can also work on https://crates.io/crates/wikibase | |
| Petrb | None | Huggle, wm-bot, cloud services | IRC petan@freenode | JavaScript | I am going to focus on task T72160, any C++ or JS devs are welcome | |
| Florian Schmidt | Volunteer | MediaWiki, extensions and configuration management | see user page | |||
| Toni Hermoso Pulido | Amical Wikimedia | MediaWiki, Wikidata (Wikibase, WikiCite), l10n, bots, etc. | Special:EmailUser/Toniher | Apart from organisation tasks, if I have time I would try to help fixing issues like task T148582 or task T170263 | ||
| Vachagan Gratian | Wikimedia Armenia, University of Stuttgart | Natural Language Processing, Machine learning, Python | mail: vgratianutopialab.am
xmpp: vgratian twitter: @vgratian |
First-time participant, so I would like some guidance: how can I help with my skills? | ||
| Victor Bjelkholm | Protocol Labs | Decentralized Systems | victorbjelkholmgmail.com & victorprotocol.ai
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WikiData, Structured Data and related subjects | Knowledge about data formats within Wikipedia | I'm gonna try to publish distributed archives of various Wikipedia data during the hackathon |
| Marcel Ruiz Forns | Wikimedia Foundation | Analytics: data processing, visualization and privacy. | mfornswikimedia.org
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| Maxime LathuiliĂšre | inventaire.io | Wikidata & Inventaire data exchanges, WikidataJS tools, Hub | maxmaxlath.eu or @maxlath@mastodon.social or @maxlath
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I will probably be working on data imports from Inventaire to Wikidata, and/or hang around the WikiCite room | If there is a feature that you would like to see appear on WikidataJS tools or the Hub, that could be a good time to have a look at it together! | |
| 0x010C | Volunteer | Languages, maps, API, gadgets, Wikibase | wm0x010c.fr
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| Trey Jones | Wikimedia Foundation | Languages and search | treywikimedia.org
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I've got a list of language-related (and mostly search-related) projects I'd like to work on at the hackathonâand after! If you can help with any of them, let me know! | Tell me why your search sucks! (and maybe I can do something about it) | |
| Dmitry Brant | Wikimedia Foundation | All things Mobile, Android, user experience, and new forms of contributions. | dbrantwikimedia.org
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| Stas Malyshev | Wikimedia Foundation | Wikidata, Search, SPARQL, structured data | smalyshevwikimedia.org
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| Lydia Pintscher | Wikimedia Deutschland | all things Wikidata | lydia.pintscherwikimedia.de, @nightrose
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I'll be there to help anyone with Wikidata-related projects. | If you're still looking for something to work on there are lovely Wikidata tasks on this Phabricator board. | |
| Sjoerddebruin | Wikimedia Nederland (scholarship) | Wikidata | @sjoerddebruin | Contributing to MediaWiki/Wikibase code, OOjs | Someone who has time to help me getting started or wants to help making gadgets on Wikidata better. | |
| Deb Tankersley | Wikimedia Foundation | Program management for the Technology Department (and general Search questions) | debwikimedia.org
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| Pau Giner | Wikimedia Foundation | Design and language support | pginerwikimedia.org
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I'd like to learn more about translation on mobile. I plan to create some prototypes and get feedback. | Feedback from users with experience translating, editing on mobile, or both. | If you need design help for your hackathon project, I'll be happy to help. Check the design and language related plans for the hackathon. |
| Lea Voget | Wikimedia Deutschland | Technical Wishes, mediawiki, edit conflicts, Moving files to commons (FileImporter) | lea.vogetwikimedia.de
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I'd like to learn more about how the parsers work, and what are all the things involved in creating and showing references | We will have tickets from all kinds of community wishes, that are waiting for a volunteer to pick them up! (We will also provide mentors) | |
| Daniel Kinzler (WMDE) (talk) | Wikimedia Deutschland | TechCom, Platform Evolution, Wikidata/Wikibase | daniel.kinzlerwikimedia.de
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I'm interested in how people use APIs, dumps, and tool forge, what problems they experience, and how we could make things better for them. | ||
| Gabriel Birke | Wikimedia Deutschland | Technical Wishes, mediawiki, search, frontend, Docker | gabriel.birkewikimedia.de @chiborg
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How to set up a more modern frontend development workflow, as outlined in a recent blog post | Advice from people who know about Release Engineering | |
| Tonina Zhelyazkova | Wikimedia Deutschland | Technical Wishes, mediawiki, E2E browser testing | tonina.zhelyazkovawikimedia.de
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I'm interested in learning more about mw core. I'm also interested in hearing about other people's experience with E2E testing in order to decide how we at wmde can make this process easier/better. | Advice from people experienced in mw core. Feedback from people doing E2E testing. | |
| Christoph Jauera | Wikimedia Deutschland | Technical Wishes, MediaWiki, FileImporter-, TwoColConflict-, Wikidiff2-extension | christoph.jauerawikimedia.de WMDE-Fisch @ Phab/Gerrit CFisch_WMDE @ #wmhack connect |
Always looking for interested volunteers that want to help coding for MediaWiki. | ||
| Albin Larsson | Swedish National Heritage Board / Volunteer | Structured Data, GLAMs, Maps | albin.postgmail.com, Talk page, @albinpclarsson
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If someone wants to guide me through my first contribution to the Mediawiki Core you would earn a gold star. | Pattypan could need your help with writing and reviewing tutorials and documentation! | |
| Michael Schönitzer | Wikimedia Deutschland (+Volunteer) | wikidata,pywikibot,gadgets | michael.schoenitzerwikimedia.de
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Writing less ugly Javascript and everything else | ||
| Cormac Parle | Wikimedia Foundation | Structured Data on Commons, code quality, unit testing | cparlewikimedia.org
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Learning as much as I can about MediaWiki itself | ||
| Isarra | MediaWiki skinning/themes, interface extensions, UX, workflows, design. | Special:EmailUser/Isarra or find me on IRC. | The buckets do we need to do to core to make it actually play nice with mobile? What do people waaaaant? | Please tell me how you use mobile, because I don't. Help. | ||
| Bryan Davis | Wikimedia Foundation, Cloud Services | Toolforge, Toolhub, technical documentation, writing tutorials and how-to content for common concerns | bd808wikimedia.org, bd808 in #wikimedia-cloud connect and other Freenode IRC channels
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What is/was hard for you about getting started using Toolforge, Gerrit, Phabricator, IRC, and other tools in the Wikimedia technical space | Help organizing and updating documentation for Toolforge, Gerrit, Phabricator, IRC, MediaWiki action API, getting started, etc. | |
| James Forrester | Wikimedia Foundation | Editing tools, Developer tools, Welcoming new people, whatever you like! | James_F on IRC
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What do I need to do to make contributing a better experience? | đ€·đœââïž | |
| Niklas Laxström | Wikimedia Foundation | Everything about translation and internationalization | Nikerabbit on IRC/Phabricator/Telegram | If you are a translator, what would encourage you to translate more. If you are developer, how easy is it to get your software internationalized and translated? | Translatewiki.net is looking for volunteers to support translators and projects using translatewiki.net | I'm running a wiki which uses both Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki. Does it make sense? Ask me why or tell your opinion :) |
| Sam Wilson | Wikimedia Foundation | CommTech; MediaWiki; Wikisource | samwilson in #wikimedia-commtech connect; @samwilson:matrix.org | |||
| Jack Gleeson | Wikimedia Foundation | MediaWiki; Puppet; Docker; Wikidata | jgleeson on #wikimedia-fundraising connect | How can we integrate machine learning at fundraising tech. | ||
| Rachel Farrand | Wikimedia Foundation | Events, mentoring, newcomers | IRC: rfarrand or email rfarrandwikimedia
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How to make hackathons better | Fill out the feedback survey after the hackathon! | See you soon!! |
| John Samuel | WikiCite, Structured Commons | Special:EmailUser/Jsamwrites | How to best ensure multilingualism and create well-referenced articles/items? | Help on improving and enhancing community tools | ||
| Rafid Aslam | Pywikibot, Git Commit Validator, GCI, Zulip | rafidteamgmail.com or t.me/refeed or refeed[z] in IRC
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Wikidata, Mediawiki-Vagrant, Pywikibot | |||
| Moritz Schubotz | Uni Konstanz | Math, Wikidata, VisualEditor | IRC: physikerwelt or wikiphysikerwelt.de
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Which factors are most significant for developers to contribute to the Wikimedia Software Ecosystem? | Experience in how to test the frontend and get representative feedback from the end users. | |
| Igor Leturia | Elhuyar Fundazioa, Basque Wikipedia User Group | Wikispeech | ileturiaelhuyar.eus or @ileturia
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New extensions development and deployment in WMF servers (specially Wikispeech) | I will be working on Wikispeech. Help from anyone with experience and permissions for extension deployment in WMF servers will be appreciated. | |
| Kepa Sarasola | Basque Wikipedia User Group, Ixa Group, University of the Basque Country, UEU | Language technology, Machine translation, Low resourced languages | kepa.sarasolaehu.eus or @kepasarasola
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Language techonology applied to Wikimedia, Wikimedia for Language Technology, Machine Translation, Content translation | I will be working mainly on Machine translation (see Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons track). I need help for creating a service to translate captions of images in Commons. | |
| Maite Melero | UPF | Language Technology, Machine Translation, Low-resourced languages | maite.meleroupf.edu
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Wikidata related issues | I'll be attending the track on Digital Humanities on Saturday morning, for the rest I will improvise | |
| Sandra Fauconnier | Wikimedia Foundation (GLAM strategist for Structured Commons) | Wikidata, Structured Data on Commons, GLAM | Special:EmailUser/SandraF (WMF) | I'd love to get to know everyone who's interested in Structured Data on Commons, especially related to GLAM, and want to learn how to support you - both newcomer or advanced developer | Come attend our sessions on Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons, and visit our team table! |  |
| Quiddity | Wikimedia Foundation (Community Liaison) | Documentation, Design, Discussion | Special:EmailUser/Quiddity (WMF) or IRC:quiddity | Which documentation examples you love (both ours, and other people's). What you'd need to write more docs. | All the docs tasks and anything else that improves the docs. | Ask me about the m:Wikimedia Cuteness Association. |
| Alex Hollender | Wikimedia Foundation (UX) | Mobile editing, knowledge maps/spatial organization of content, Wikidata | ahollender@wikimedia.org | What mobile editing flows people are most interested in, setting up my local environment and submitting patches | "More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness."
- Charlie Chaplin | |
| Mahuton POSSOUPE | Volunteer | bots / wikidata | bpossoupe@gmail.com | Tools development and deploiement | ||
| Finn Ă rup Nielsen (fnielsen) | Volunteer (Wikimedia Denmark) | Wikidata / Scholia / machine learning | @fnielsen | Some more Javascript experience, Toolforge help/debugging | Frontend development, Python-Flask and WDQS, Toolforge deployment, Toolforge-based machine learning | Imaging a world with Toolforge-based privacy preserving speech recognition and generation and Wikimedia Commons- and Wikidata-based question answering. |
| Abel Serrano Juste | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) | Analytics, Data analysis, mediawiki hacking, bots | abeserra@ucm.es or @Quasipodo | bot developing, wikimedia plugin developing, wikimedia api | wikimedia plugin, wikimedia bots, wikimedia api | Any ideas on measuring when a wiki community is "healthy" (sustainable) or is not? |
| Srishti Sethi | Wikimedia Foundation | Developer Relations, Helping new developers | ssethi@wikimedia.org | Get some feedback / ideas and help in making progress on these two tasks: T194556, T194557 | Same as in the previous column | |
| Oriol Soriano | Voluneer | All things software development.
Cloud, infrastructure, machine learning, linux, devel tools &, overall, learning |
oriolsoriano@gmail.com | My main focus for this hackaton is to contribute all the work I can & help with anything I am capable of.
I will surely learn a lot along that way. |
If you have a project and could use some software development or infra management help, ping me. | |
| Nicole Ebber | Wikimedia Deutschland | Wikimedia 2030: Movement Strategy Process | nicole.ebber@wikimedia.de | A better understanding of how people would like to engage in the coming phase of the movement strategy process | Input from the developer community regarding the Technology Working Group in the strategy process (title, scope, members etc) | |
| Robert Vogel | Hallo Welt! GmbH, Germany | LDAP Authentication/Authorization; Using composer to install/update extensions; Extending VisualEditor; | vogelhallowelt.com
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Everything new and exciting | ||
| Lazhar Ichir | Volunteer | Natural Language Processing, NodeJS, Topic Extraction | hello /at/ lazharichir /dot/ com | Sementic web, linked data... | ||
| Arzhel Younsi | Wikimedia Foundation | Ops/Networking/Pipes/Bits | ayounsi@wikimedia.org | How is your latency? | Beer, with moderation | Yo. |
| Ferran Jorba | Universitat AutĂČnoma de Barcelona / Volunteeer | Bots/Quality assurance/Wiki Data/Python | Ferran.Jorba@uab.cat | Librarian-style jobs | Understand links between wikidata and wikipedia articles. Maybe permisions? Best practices | |
| Antonin Delpeuch | University of Oxford / OpenRefine / dissem.in | importing data in Wikidata, open access to scientific publications | Special:EmailUser/Pintoch | Wikibase deployment, federation | more documentation and tutorials | |
| Aure SĂ©guier | Lo CongrĂšs permanent de la lenga occitana | using API to interrogate Wikidata | webmaster@locongres.org | |||
| Petr Urbanec | University of Pardubice | I am a newcomer | https://t.me/Jerry_74 | |||
| Martin Urbanec | Wikimedia Czech Republic | bots, anything else wiki-related | martin.urbanecwikimedia.cz
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Anything new! | See you! | |
| Daniel Mietchen | WikiCite/ Scholia, Wiki Project Med et al. | Workflows and infrastructure at the interface between Wikimedia and research | Talk page on Wikidata | Structured Commons, Wikibase, Lua | See Scholia tickets for the hackathon and other WikiCite plans | |
| Fabricio Cårdenas | Wikimedia France | Wikipedia in a lot of languages / Wikicommons / Wikidata | @bibliofab66 or fabricio.cardenas@wikimedia.fr | Being a newcomer, anything new that can help me in my wikimedian experience ! | ||
| Tony Thomas | Volunteer | Automation, cloud related stuff. MediaWiki extensions, on-boarding new volunteers, unit testing | Telegram: tonythomas01and IRC: tonythomas | New ways to contribute, mostly with Python, etc. | Dont know at this point | |
| Nicolas Nallet | Wiki Valley | Semantic MediaWiki, Page Forms, Access control. SEO and MediaWiki | Here | Useful pywikibot scripts, GitHub Phabricator fundamentials | skills for re(re)Launching HaloACL access control extension | |
| Peter Grassberger | Wikidata, MediaWiki Extensions, Semantic MediaWiki, PHP, python, Web | PeterTheOne on Twitter, Telegram, IRC, petertheone@gmail.com | Working with gerrit and phabricator, and other new things.. | Looking for projects.. | This will be my first Wikimedia Hackathon! \o/ | |
| User:Eloi Montes | Learning as much as I can | eloimontes11@gmail.com | My first Wikimedia Hackathon | |||
| Alex Monk | Volunteer | Cloud Services, Linux, Security, Puppet, Huggle | IRC or Telegram probably | |||
| Maria Noguera | MDPI Bcn | open source, open knowledge | marianoguera9@gmail.com | I am almost newbie to wikipedia as editor, I plan to make this an enriching event for me to learn and participate further in the future as a regular editor of wikipedia. | My first Wikimedia Hackaton. Some skills on programming already. UAB my university :3 '12-'16 | |
| CristianCantoro | Wikimedia Italia | WikiCite, Analytics, OAbot | Telegram: @CristianCantoro, Twitter: @CristianCantoro, E-mail:cristian.consonniwikimedia.it
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All things Wikidata | If you know how to write tests for Python programs, contact me! | |
| Ăngel ObregĂłn | Wikimedia España | Wikipedia, Wikidata | Telegram: Angelobregon | Create a bot. | I want create a bot in PHP. | |
| Brendan Campbell-Craven | Wikimedia Foundation | Supporting Audio-visual needs, structured data on Commons | IRC: brendan_campbell
Telegram: bcampbell mail: bcampbell@wikimedia.org |
How structured data on Commons works | Let me know if you want your session recorded. | |
| KlĂĄra JoklovĂĄ | Wikimedia Czech Republic | Wikimedia, all in general, Hackathon as event | klara.joklova@wikimedia.cz | How to organize Hackathon | experiences, good tips | |
| Jan Groh | Wikimedia Czech Republic | project managment, commons app, GIS&cartography | jan.groh@wikimedia.cz | |||
| Ćœeljko Filipin | Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Release Engineering Team | Selenium/Node.js | zeljkof at IRC, @zeljkof at Telegram, zfilipin@wikimedia.org | |||
| Theklan | Basque Wikimedians User Group | Project manager, education,Wikidata, automatic templates, ideas... | @theklaneh at Twitter, @Galder_Gonzalez at Telegram | |||
| Andrew Kostka | Wikimedia Deutschland | Technical Wishes, FileImporter-, TwoColConflict- | andrew.kostkawikimedia.de Andrew-WMDE @ #wmhack connect |
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