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{{Infobox person
| name               = Larry Sanger
| image              = L Sanger.jpg
| birth_name         = Lawrence Mark Sanger
| birth_date         = July 16, 1968
| birth_place        = [[wikipedia:Bellevue, Washington|Bellevue, Washington]], [[wikipedia:United States|U.S.]]
| education          = [[wikipedia:Reed College|Reed College]] ([[wikipedia:Bachelor of Arts|BA]]), [[wikipedia:Ohio State University|Ohio State University]] ([[wikipedia:Master of Arts|MA]], [[wikipedia:PhD|PhD]])
| occupation         = Internet project developer<br>Philosopher
| children           = 2
| website            = [https://larrysanger.org larrysanger.org]
}}

'''Lawrence Mark Sanger''' (born July 16, 1968)<ref>{{YouTube|zTaY3mg06sU|Western History for Kids, Part 1 – ancient and medieval – Sanger Academy}}, video taken from Sanger's official educational [[wikipedia:YouTube]] channel, pronunciation confirmed around 0:10, accessed May 7, 2016</ref> is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who co-founded [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] along with [[wikipedia:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]]. Sanger coined Wikipedia's name, and provided initial drafts for many of its early guidelines, including the "[[wikipedia:Wikipedia#Policies and content|Neutral point of view]]" and "[[wikipedia:Ignore all rules|Ignore all rules]]" policies. Prior to Wikipedia, he was the editor-in-chief of [[wikipedia:Nupedia|Nupedia]], another [[wikipedia:online encyclopedia|online encyclopedia]] and the predecessor of Wikipedia. He later worked on other encyclopedic projects, including ''[[wikipedia:Encyclopedia of Earth|Encyclopedia of Earth]]'', [[wikipedia:Citizendium|Citizendium]], and [[wikipedia:Everipedia|Everipedia]], and advised the nonprofit American political encyclopedia [[wikipedia:Ballotpedia|Ballotpedia]].<ref name="Knowledge 2019">{{Cite web |date=September 24, 2019 |title=About Dr. Larry Sanger |url=https://encyclosphere.org/larry |access-date=July 23, 2021 |website=Knowledge Standards Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref>

While in college, Sanger began using the Internet for educational purposes and joined the online encyclopedia Nupedia as [[wikipedia:editor-in-chief|editor-in-chief]] in 2000. Disappointed with the slow progress of Nupedia, Sanger proposed using a [[wikipedia:wiki|wiki]] to solicit and receive articles to put through Nupedia's peer-review process; this change led to the development and launch of Wikipedia in 2001. Sanger continued to serve as Nupedia's editor-in-chief and as an active contributor to Wikipedia in its first year, but he was laid off and left the projects in March 2002. Sanger's status as a co-founder of Wikipedia has been questioned by Wales<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 19, 2023 |title=Transcript for Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia Lex Fridman Podcast #385 |url=https://lexfridman.com/jimmy-wales-transcript/#chapter13_larry_sanger |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014181329/https://lexfridman.com/jimmy-wales-transcript/#chapter13_larry_sanger |archive-date=October 14, 2023 |access-date=November 3, 2023 |website=lexfridman.com}}</ref> but is generally accepted.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yam |first=Shing-Ching Jonathan |year=2013 |title=Decommercialization and anti-elitism: early years of Wikipedia 2001-2002 |url=https://universitypublications.net/ijas/0601/pdf/SPQ603.pdf |journal=International Journal of Arts & Sciences |volume=6 |issue=1 |quote=The Wales/Sanger split refers to the departure of co-founder Larry Sanger in 2002 (The Australian 2006). |via=universitypublications.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jankowski |first=Steve |date=August 6, 2023 |title=The Wikipedia imaginaire: a new media history beyond Wikipedia.org (2001–2022) |journal=Internet Histories |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=333–353 |doi=10.1080/24701475.2023.2246261 |s2cid=260878150 |quote=When  Wikipedia  launched,  its  co-founders  Jimmy  Wales  and  Larry  Sanger  followed  this  tradition  when  described  it  as  'the  free  encyclopedia'. |doi-access=free}}</ref>

Since Sanger's departure from Wikipedia, he has been critical of the project, describing it in 2007 as being "broken beyond repair".<ref name="Iain Thomson">{{Cite news|last=Thomson|first=Iain|date=April 13, 2007|title=Wikipedia 'broken beyond repair' says co-founder|url=http://www.itnews.com.au/News/78127,wikipedia-broken-beyond-repair-says-co-founder.aspx|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121222154606/http://www.itnews.com.au/News/78127,wikipedia-broken-beyond-repair-says-co-founder.aspx|archive-date=December 22, 2012|publisher=iTnews}}</ref> He has argued that, despite its merits, Wikipedia lacks credibility and accuracy due to a lack of respect for expertise and authority. Since 2020, he has criticized Wikipedia for what he perceives as a [[wikipedia:Left-wing politics|left-wing]] and [[wikipedia:Liberalism|liberal]] ideological bias in its articles.<ref name="Tel20210716">{{Cite news |last=Sabur |first=Rozina |date=July 16, 2021 |title=The Left has taken over Wikipedia and stripped it of neutrality, says co-creator |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/07/16/wikipedia-dominated-left-wing-establishment-version-truth-co/ |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/07/16/wikipedia-dominated-left-wing-establishment-version-truth-co/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |access-date=December 2, 2021 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235 |quote=Mr Sanger added that "very little" reference to scandals and allegations against the Bidens, for instance relating to their business dealings in Ukraine, could be found on Wikipedia.}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Sayers 2021">{{Cite podcast|url=https://unherd.com/thepost/wikipedia-co-founder-i-no-longer-trust-the-website-i-created/|title=Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created|website=UnHerd|publisher=UnHerd|host=Freddie Sayers|date=July 14, 2021|access-date=May 25, 2022}}</ref>

In 2006, he founded [[wikipedia:Citizendium|Citizendium]] to compete with Wikipedia. In 2010, he stepped down as editor-in-chief. In 2020, he left Citizendium entirely. In 2017, he joined [[wikipedia:Everipedia|Everipedia]] as [[wikipedia:chief information officer|chief information officer]] (CIO). He resigned in 2019, to establish a Knowledge Standards Foundation and the "encyclosphere". Sanger was serving as the executive director of the Knowledge Standards Foundation.<ref name="Knowledge 2019" /><ref name="Spence 2021">{{Cite news |last=Spence |first=Madeleine |date=August 1, 2021 |title=Larry Sanger: 'I wouldn't trust Wikipedia – and I helped to invent it' |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/larry-sanger-i-wouldnt-trust-wikipedia-and-i-helped-to-invent-it-cflrhmdhx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210801095207/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/larry-sanger-i-wouldnt-trust-wikipedia-and-i-helped-to-invent-it-cflrhmdhx |archive-date=August 1, 2021 |access-date=August 1, 2021 |work=[[The Sunday Times]] |location=London |language=en |issn=0140-0460}}</ref><ref name="Encyclosphere">{{Cite web |date=n.d. |title=Encyclosphere Team |url=https://encyclosphere.org/team |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325163901/https://encyclosphere.org/larry |archive-date=March 25, 2023 |website=Encyclosphere |language=en-US}}</ref> Sanger's other interests include a focus on philosophy–in particular [[epistemology]], [[wikipedia:early modern philosophy|early modern philosophy]], and ethics. He taught philosophy at one of his alma maters, [[wikipedia:Ohio State University|Ohio State University]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abby |date=March 6, 2022 |title=Larry Sanger: Complete Biography, History, and Inventions |url=https://history-computer.com/larry-sanger-complete-biography/ |access-date=January 5, 2024 |website=History-Computer |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Lawrence Mark Sanger was born in [[wikipedia:Bellevue, Washington|Bellevue, Washington]], on July 16, 1968. His father Gerry was a [[wikipedia:marine biologist|marine biologist]] who studied [[wikipedia:seabird|seabirds]] and his mother raised the children.<ref name="Spence 2021" /><ref name="Chris Lydgate">{{Cite magazine |last=Lydgate |first=Chris |date=June 2010 |title=Deconstructing Wikipedia |url=http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/june2010/features/deconstructing_wikipedia/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101054851/http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/june2010/features/deconstructing_wikipedia/index.html |archive-date=November 1, 2013 |access-date=November 1, 2013 |magazine=Reed Magazine}}</ref> When he was seven years old, his family moved to [[wikipedia:Anchorage, Alaska|Anchorage, Alaska]], where he grew up.<ref name="Marshall Poe" /> He was interested in philosophical topics at an early age and decided "to study philosophy and make it my life's work" at the age of 16.<ref name="Wade Roush" /><ref name="Alan_Boraas">{{Cite news |last=Boraas |first=Alan |date=September 2, 2006 |title=Hometown kid an Internet revolutionary |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AS&p_theme=as&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=Larry%20AND%20Sanger&s_dispstring=Larry%20Sanger%20AND%20section(all)%20AND%20date(9/2/2006%20to%209/2/2006)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=9/2/2006%20to%209/2/2006) |url-access=subscription |access-date=March 25, 2007 |work=[[Anchorage Daily News]]}}</ref><ref name="Schwartz2015" />

[[File:Larry Sanger 1986.jpg|upright=0.7|thumb|alt=A teenage boy wearing a black suit with a blue tie smiles.|Sanger in 1986]]
In high school, he participated in debate, which Sanger says influenced his views on neutrality due to these debates exposing him to different issues and arguments from both sides:<ref name="Schwartz2015" /><blockquote>And so I'd look up articles about those things, and I was always furious when I came across an article that failed to present one side fairly or at all. The worst instances were when [the author] would just come out and say what their position is. It just struck me as being really unfair.</blockquote>Sanger graduated from high school in 1986 and attended [[wikipedia:Reed College|Reed College]], [[wikipedia:academic major|majoring]] in philosophy.<ref name="Alan_Boraas" /> In college he became interested in the Internet and its potential as a publishing outlet.<ref name="Wade Roush">{{Cite news |last=Roush |first=Wade |date=January 1, 2005 |title=Larry Sanger's Knowledge Free-for-All |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2005/01/01/231769/larry-sangers-knowledge-free-for-all/ |access-date=March 25, 2007 |work=[[Technology Review]]}}</ref> Sanger set up a [[wikipedia:list server|listserver]] as a medium for students and tutors to meet for tutoring and "to act as a forum for discussion of tutorials, tutorial methods, and the possibility and merits of a voluntary, free network of individual tutors and students finding each other via the Internet for education outside the traditional university setting".<ref name="Tutor-L">{{Cite web |last=Sanger |first=Larry |date=August 30, 1995 |title=Tutor-L: Higher education outside the universities |url=http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/PastProjects/NH/95-09/95-09-01/0018.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091123051329/https://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/PastProjects/NH/95-09/95-09-01/0018.html |archive-date=November 23, 2009 |access-date=March 25, 2007 |website=Internet Scout |publisher=scout.wisc.edu}}</ref> He started and moderated a [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] philosophy discussion list, the Association for Systematic Philosophy.<ref name="Marshall Poe" /><ref name="Schwartz2015" /> In 1994, Sanger wrote a manifesto for the discussion group:<blockquote>The history of philosophy is full of disagreement and confusion. One reaction by philosophers to this state of things is to doubt whether the truth about philosophy can ever be known, or whether there is any such thing as the truth about philosophy. But there is another reaction: one may set out to think more carefully and methodically than one's intellectual forebears.</blockquote>Around 1994, Sanger met Jimmy Wales after subscribing to Wales' [[wikipedia:mailing list|mailinglist]] titled Moderated Discussion of [[wikipedia:Objectivism|Objectivist]] Philosophy (MDOP).<ref name="Schwartz2015">{{Cite news |last=Schwartz |first=Zach |date=November 11, 2015 |title=Wikipedia's Co-Founder Is Wikipedia's Most Outspoken Critic |url=https://www.vice.com/read/wikipedias-co-founder-is-wikipedias-biggest-critic-511 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151114004055/http://www.vice.com/read/wikipedias-co-founder-is-wikipedias-biggest-critic-511 |archive-date=November 14, 2015 |work=[[Vice (magazine)#Website|Vice]]}}</ref> Sanger received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Reed in 1991, a Master of Arts from Ohio State University in 1995, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000.<ref name="Glyn Moody">{{Cite news|last=Moody|first=Glyn|date=July 13, 2006|title=This time, it'll be a Wikipedia written by experts|url=http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1818630,00.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222023201/http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1818630,00.html|archive-date=February 22, 2007|access-date=March 25, 2007|work=The Guardian|location=London}}</ref> Beginning in 1998, he and a friend ran a website called "Sanger and Shannon's Review of Y2K News Reports", a resource for people such as managers of computer systems who were concerned about the [[wikipedia:year 2000 problem|year 2000 problem]].<ref name="Marshall Poe" />

==Philosophy==
Larry Sanger has a [[wikipedia:doctorate|doctorate]] in [[wikipedia:Philosophy|Philosophy]] from [[wikipedia:Ohio State University|Ohio State University]].<ref name="Glyn Moody" /> His professional interests are [[wikipedia:epistemology]], [[wikipedia:early modern philosophy|early modern philosophy]], and [[ethics]].<ref name="Alan_Boraas" /> Most of Sanger's philosophical work focuses on epistemology.<ref name="Wade Roush" /> In 2008, he visited [[wikipedia:Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol College]] of the [[wikipedia:University of Oxford|University of Oxford]] to debate the proposal "the Internet is the future of knowledge", arguing wikis and blogs are changing the way knowledge is created and distributed.<ref name="Andrew Keen">{{Cite news |last=Keen, Andrew |date=June 2, 2008 |title=Andrew Keen on New Media |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/andrew-keen-on-new-media-837997.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605023100/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/andrew-keen-on-new-media-837997.html |archive-date=June 5, 2008 |access-date=June 8, 2008 |work=[[The Independent]] |location=London}}</ref> Sanger has frequently written and spoken about collaborative content.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Larry Sanger |url=http://blogs.britannica.com/author/lsanger |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701172049/http://blogs.britannica.com/author/lsanger |archive-date=July 1, 2020 |access-date=April 8, 2022 |website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] Blog}}</ref> Sanger has argued that [[wikipedia:Liberalism|liberal]] and [[wikipedia:Centre-left politics|left-leaning]] views dominate in [[wikipedia:Academic bias|academia]], [[wikipedia:Criticism of science|science]], the [[wikipedia:Media bias|media]] and tech companies such as [[wikipedia:Facebook|Facebook]] and [[wikipedia:Twitter|Twitter]].<ref name="Spence 2021" />

In January 2002, Sanger returned to [[wikipedia:Columbus, Ohio|Columbus, Ohio]] to teach philosophy at Ohio State University. In December 2010, Sanger said he considered [[wikipedia:WikiLeaks|WikiLeaks]] to be "enemies of the [[wikipedia:United States|U.S.]]—not just the government, but the people".<ref name="The Wall Street Journal">{{Cite news |last=Crovitz, L. Gordon |date=December 6, 2010 |title=Julian Assange, Information Anarchist |url=http://topics.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989004575653113548361870.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217055334/http://topics.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989004575653113548361870.html |archive-date=December 17, 2010 |access-date=December 22, 2010 |work=The Wall Street Journal |publisher=[[Dow Jones & Company]]}}</ref> In September 2021, in response to U.S. President [[wikipedia:Joe Biden|Joe Biden]] announcing a [[wikipedia:COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the United States|COVID-19 vaccine mandate]], Sanger tweeted "Nor I.#IWillNotComply" in agreement with political commentator [[wikipedia:Tim Pool|Tim Pool]]. In an earlier tweet, Sanger claimed that [[wikipedia:COVID-19 vaccine|COVID-19 vaccine]] are "not a [[wikipedia:vaccine|vaccine]]".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Slisco |first=Aila |date=September 10, 2021 |title=#IWillNotComply trends on Twitter after Joe Biden orders vaccine mandate |url=https://www.newsweek.com/iwillnotcomply-trends-twitter-after-joe-biden-orders-vaccine-mandate-1627723 |access-date=September 10, 2021 |work=[[Newsweek]] |language=en}}</ref> In March 2022, Sanger said that "[[wikipedia:Decentralization|Decentralization]] is a necessary but not sufficient condition of [[wikipedia:internet freedom|internet freedom]]", arguing that both [[wikipedia:Federation (information technology)|federated]] and [[wikipedia:peer-to-peer|peer-to-peer]] decentralized networks "can still be captured and controlled in various ways and rendered un-free".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bassett |first=Caitlin |date=March 30, 2022 |title=Could Decentralization Fix Twitter's Censorship Problems? |url=https://mindmatters.ai/2022/03/could-decentralization-fix-twitters-censorship-problems/ |access-date=March 31, 2022 |website=MindMatters.ai |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In February 2000, when Sanger was hired by Wales to develop Nupedia, he moved to [[wikipedia:San Diego|San Diego]]. He was married in [[wikipedia:Las Vegas|Las Vegas]] in December 2001. In 2005, he and his wife moved to [[wikipedia:Santa Cruz, California|Santa Cruz, California]], to work for [[wikipedia:Digital Universe|Digital Universe]]. As of 2015, Sanger lives in the outskirts of [[wikipedia:Columbus, Ohio|Columbus, Ohio]].<ref name="Schwartz2015" /> As of 2021, he lives with his wife and two sons, who are both [[Homeschooling|homeschooled]].<ref name="Spence 2021" /><ref name="Encyclosphere" />

Sanger was raised as a [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] and went to a [[Sunday school]], but became an [[Agnosticism|agnostic]] when he was 16 after his family stopped regularly going to [[Church service|church]].<ref name="Spence 2021" /><ref name="Gilbert 2016">{{Cite web |last=Gilbert |first=Alexandre |date=November 15, 2016 |title=Larry Sanger: "Wikipedia has a problem with fairness and sound governance" |url=http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/larry-sanger-wikipedia-has-a-problem-with-fairness-and-sound-governance/ |access-date=February 8, 2021 |website=[[The Times of Israel]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sanger |first=Larry |date=January 15, 2020 |title=Why I Have Not Been a Christian, and Why That Might Change |url=https://larrysanger.org/2020/01/why-i-have-not-been-a-christian-and-why-that-might-change/ |access-date=February 8, 2021 |website=Larry Sanger Blog |publisher=Larry Sanger}}</ref> In 2023, Sanger described himself as a Christian.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 24, 2023 |title=How to Read the Bible All the Way Through for the First Time – LarrySanger.org |url=https://larrysanger.org/2023/09/how-to-read-the-bible-all-the-way-through-for-the-first-time/#comments |access-date=October 31, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> Ethnically, he described himself in 2016 as "a typical American cross-breed (lots of [[English people|English]], [[Germans|German]], and [[French people|French]])".<ref name="Gilbert 2016" /> Sanger supports the concept of "baby reading".<ref name="Carey2013" /> He started teaching his son to read before his second birthday and posted videos online to demonstrate this.<ref name="Carey2013">{{Cite news |last=Carey |first=Tanith |date=January 2, 2013 |title=Can you teach a baby to read? |url=https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/family/baby/can-you-teach-a-baby-to-read-1446782 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107013329/https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/family/baby/can-you-teach-a-baby-to-read-1446782 |archive-date=November 7, 2017 |access-date=October 30, 2017 |publisher=[[Independent Online (South Africa)]]}}</ref> He is fond of [[Irish traditional music]].

==Selected writings==
'''Academic work'''
* Epistemic Circularity: An Essay on the Problem of Meta-Justification&nbsp;– doctoral thesis.
* Descartes's methods and their theoretical background&nbsp;– bachelor thesis.
'''Essays'''
* [https://ballotpedia.org/Why_Neutrality Why Neutrality?]. ''[[Ballotpedia]]'', December 2015.
* [http://larrysanger.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/How-and-Why-I-Taught-My-Toddler-to-Read.pdf How and Why I Taught My Toddler to Read] (PDF). ''LarrySanger.org'', December 2010.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120607220348/http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume45/IndividualKnowledgeintheIntern/202336 Individual Knowledge in the Internet Age]. ''Educause Review'', April 2010.
* [https://archive.today/20130102112005/http://www.eupjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.3366/E1742360008000543 The Fate of Expertise after Wikipedia] (PDF). ''Episteme&nbsp;– Edinburgh University Press'', February 2009.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121222100719/http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/sanger07/sanger07_index.html Who Says We Know: On The New Politics of Knowledge]. ''Edge Foundation''&nbsp;– Edge Reality Club, April 2007.
* [http://edge.org/q2007/q07_14.html#sanger Humanity's Coming Enlightenment]. ([http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090626082438/http://edge.org/q2007/q07_14.html Archived]) ''Edge Foundation''&nbsp;– World Question Center, 2007.
'''Presentations'''
* [http://larrysanger.org/scholar_pub.html What Strong Collaboration Means for Scholarly Publishing]. Keynote at the Annual Meeting of ''Society for Scholarly Publishing'', San Francisco, CA, June 7, 2007.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071017053843/http://citizendium.org/collab_prof.html How to Think about Strong Collaboration among Professionals]. Keynote at the ''Handelsblatt IT Congress'', Bonn, Germany, January 30, 2007.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071018072925/http://citizendium.org/roomforexperts.html Why Make Room for Experts in Web 2.0?]. Opening keynote at the SVForum, ''The Business of New Media'', Santa Clara, CA, October 25, 2006.
'''Books'''
* [https://larrysanger.org/2020/09/new-book-essays-on-free-knowledge/ Essays on Free Knowledge: The Origins of Wikipedia and the New Politics of Knowledge]. September 8, 2020

==See also==
* [[List of Wikipedia people]]
==External links==
* [http://larrysanger.org/ Larry Sanger]&nbsp;– Sanger's personal website.
* [https://encyclosphere.org/ Encyclosphere]

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