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February 2015 - March 2016

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Tech News: 2016-05

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

• Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [1]
• Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [2][3]
• Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [4]

Changes this week

• The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [5]
• Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [6][7]
• The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [8]
• The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [9][10][11]
• The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [12][13]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is expiring watch list entries. The meeting will be on 3 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [14]

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21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Carles Romagosa Vidal Page

Hi, you deleted Carles Romagosa Vidal page on the 27th of November. I just wanted to reply and use this talk site to confirm that I'm the owner of the content that I'm trying to post on Wikipedia and I would like to know what I would need to do to get it permanently. Many thanks for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by M.farrerons (talk • contribs) 10:36, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

@M.farrerons: The article was deleted after a deletion discussion took place where it was decided that the subject was not notable enough for a Wikipedia article. Wikipedia article subjects must have been the subject of multiple in depth reliable sources of information to qualify for a Wikipedia article. On a side note - did you try to make this edit (this one on my talk page) twice by any chance? If so, what happened the first time? Thanks, Sam Walton (talk) 09:25, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

The deletion of Plava and Gusinje

I provided several references and wrote the article properly, yet it was deleted. Explain yourself. --Albanian Historian (talk) 23:08, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

@Albanian Historian: I merely closed the deletion discussion as having found consensus to delete the page. The reasons given there included the article being an inappropriate content fork, your sources not being reliable, and it not having been written in the expected encyclopedic tone. Sam Walton (talk) 09:32, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your support

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Tech News: 2016-06

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

• Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [15]
• When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [16]
• RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [17]

Changes this week

• Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [18][19]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [20][21]
• Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [22][23][24]

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18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

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Other accounts

Hi. What happens to the other blocked accounts used by me and those suspected to be used by me although they weren't? --Bazaan (talk) 13:01, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

@Bazaan: The other accounts which you used will remain blocked; part of your unblock condition is that you stick to this account. As for accounts you claim weren't used by you, most of the blocked accounts were blocked with CheckUser evidence, meaning - in short - that they stand little chance of being unblocked. If there are accounts which were blocked as suspected sockpuppets, however, and you genuinely weren't the one operating them, post a message to Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations laying out the details of that; someone might look into it. Sam Walton (talk) 13:53, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Planet Nine

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Tech News: 2016-07

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

• You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [25]
• You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [26]

Problems

• A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [27][28]

Changes this week

• There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [29][30]
• Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [31]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [32]

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16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 15

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 15, December-January 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

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Tech News: 2016-08

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

• Phabricator has been upgraded. [33][34]

Problems

• There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [35][36]

Changes this week

• After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [37]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is Assign RFCs to ArchCom shepherds. The meeting will be on 24 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Bazaan

Hi! You unblocked Bazaan few weeks ago after his request for standard offer was accepted ([38]). I am pretty sure that he is using the IP (120.136.5.60) to evade his topic ban. Can you take a look? I just intended to re-block him, but then I thought to seek another opinion. Vanjagenije (talk) 00:22, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

@Vanjagenije: I'm not 100% that that is definitely Bazaan and I would be more comfortable if we could get a CU to look at it. Can you open an SPI? Sam Walton (talk) 09:14, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

@Vanjagenije: On second thought, I'm pretty certain it is. Given that a standard offer unblock is resting on this, however, I'd still like a CU check. Sam Walton (talk) 11:30, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Posted a new SPI. Sam Walton (talk) 11:38, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Yes, but, CheckUsers are going to decline your request. They are not allowed to publicly connect usernames with IPs. Vanjagenije (talk) 13:28, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Oh, yes, of course. Hmm. Sam Walton (talk) 14:40, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Sam, because pings don't always work, I wanted to alert you to a question I posed at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bazaan. I've put the case on hold while waiting for you. If you'd rather discuss it on your Talk page, that's okay, but just make sure I know that's what you prefer. Regards.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:30, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

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Free on the 5th for an event in Leeds?

Hey Sam - the ever lovely Pat Hadley suggested I ping you in case you were free for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/UK/ArtAndFeminism_2016/Leeds_Central_Library

I'm currently the lead trainer but would really value some more experience in the room - plus there will be CAKE :)

Leela0808 (talk) 14:23, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

@Leela0808: I would love to get involved, but unfortunately that's my birthday weekend and I have plans, otherwise I would! Hope you can find someone else to join you. Sam Walton (talk) 14:44, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Wahhhhhh! OK, that's a shame but never mind :) I shall flag up other regiona things to you if you like? Leela0808 (talk) 14:52, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

@Leela0808: Please do! I'm not as good at keeping up with editathons that are going on as I should be :) Sam Walton (talk) 14:54, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Adderbury Park F.C.

Hello Sam, back in October 2015 you semi-protected Adderbury Park F.C. from being reverted by an IP, well the same is happening, probably a sock of Turkishpride. Could you please protect the page indefinitely, as there is no reason it should be reverted ever. Thanks, JMHamo (talk) 22:34, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

@JMHamo: Thanks for letting me know, I'll keep an eye on it and protect if necessary. Sam Walton (talk) 19:56, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-09

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

• Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
• The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
• The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [39][40]
• The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [41][42]

Changes this week

• On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [43]
• Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [44]
• Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [45]

Meetings

• Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [46]
• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Star Alliance

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Response to edit on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bloons_Tower_Defense&action=history

(cur | prev) 09:23, 11 February 2016‎ Samwalton9 (talk | contribs)‎ . . (25,781 bytes) (-263)‎ . . (Undid revision 704381289 by 2601:2C1:C003:EF7A:58FB:FF86:9FBB:E345 (talk) External links in text to another wiki not appropriate) (undo)

Why didn't you just break the links and make it normal text? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:2C1:C003:EF7A:4C87:C488:5851:C0EA (talk) 02:29, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-10

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

• Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [47]
• Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [48]
• The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [49]
• It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [50]
• Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [51]

Problems

• Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [52]
• The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [53]
• The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [54]
• You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [55]
• Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [56]

Changes this week

• Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [57]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
• Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [58]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [59]
• The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [60]

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20:24, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 March 2016

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@Eik Corell: Thanks for the info. I'll hopefully get to this (and the other load of requests, and false positive reports, and recently unchecked filters... soon!) Sam Walton (talk) 10:58, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 March 2016

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Tech News: 2016-11

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

• The mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [61]
• The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [62]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
• Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [63]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
• The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [64]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are backlog and thumb API. The meeting will be on 16 March at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:37, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Human sexuality

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A new Good Article

Hi Sam! I'm so excited to be talking to you here again! It's been a rather long time due to school and all, which I understand is the case for you as well. I'm here to let you know that my little article that I was working on for the longest time now, Dilek Peninsula-Büyük Menderes Delta National Park, is a good article now! I have to thank you this much once again for your help and your copy edits, which I gave you a cookie for months ago :) In the meantime, take care, and as I told Fuhghettaboutit as well, if there's anything you'd like to do to help out for the Özdere article, like improve it, review its GAN, or just offer advice, I welcome you. Cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coderenius (talk • contribs)

@Coderenius: I saw, great work! Sam Walton (talk) 10:58, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 March 2016

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why? are delete my wiki Smoothest_Aashu Realsmoothest (talk) 09:22, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-12

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

• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
• In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed. [65]

Changes this week

• It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [66]
• You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [67]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [68]

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16:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Tekken 7

Thank you for this edit. My first impulse was adding a CN tag, but then I decided to remove it outright...only to get so wrapped up in the edit summary that I forgot to actually remove the text. So ultimately, your edit was what I was intending on doing. I now see its been a discussion point on the talk page too, I'll be sure to drop a note there too. (I too am having a difficult time with this editor and his disregard for WP:OR and poor sourcing.) Thanks. Sergecross73 msg me 16:36, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

@Sergecross73: No worries; we went back and forth on it some time ago until I got tired of arguing. The article -particularly that section- has been on my to-look-at-properly list for a while, was happy to notice you trimming some stuff from it! Now I think about it, this isn't the first time I've had a mildly infuriating argument with this user about sourcing. Sam Walton (talk) 16:39, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, I know what you mean about sourcing and original research discussions... Sergecross73 msg me 16:44, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Mariel Pamintuan

Hi Samwalton9. Would you mind taking a look at Mariel Pamintuan? You deleted as a result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mariel Pamintuan (2nd nomination), but it appears to have been re-created by someone claiming to be her friend. It was tagged with {{db-person}}, but that was also removed by the same editor claiming to be her friend. I'm not sure whether the article needs to be deleted per WP:G4 or just restored to the redirect added after the AfD, so I figured I'd ask you since you were the closing admin of that AfD. If this is a sign that "her friends" are going to keep re-creating the article, then maybe WP:SALT should apply? Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:52, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

@Marchjuly: Thanks for the heads up, G4'd and redirect reinstated. Will keep on my watchlist. Sam Walton (talk) 00:02, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for taking a look. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:27, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-13

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

• MediaWiki now supports the semantic web standards of Microdata and RDFa 1.0. On Wikimedia projects, a configuration change must be requested in order to enable RDFa 1.0. [69] [70]

Problems

• Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [71]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
• You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [72]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with part of the Architecture committee, which will discuss a few topics. The meeting will be on 30 March at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• The Architecture committee has sent a summary of new and ongoing RFC discussions.

Future changes

• Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [73]
• Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.

Corrections

• Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.

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