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== page cuts off ==

At [[Template talk:context]] I get only <tt><nowiki><script type="text/javascript" src="/w/index.php?title=-&amp;a</nowiki></tt> in the left-hand corner. The HTML code likewise cuts off at that point. Temporary problem? [[User:DAVilla|DAVilla]] 17:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

:Worksfineforme.  Did you try the normal stuff, e.g. logout, view page, log back in, view again?  Restart browser, reboot, etc?  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 03:19, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

::But why should only that page have problems, and reloading do nothing? Very well, it's back. [[User:DAVilla|DAVilla]] 03:25, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

::: Actually, when I've seen errors like that, it is usually due to a tag not being closed properly somewhere in the various Javascript snippets.  Does the behavior change when you log out?  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 19:55, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

== script error in tooltips because of poor handling of innerHTML ==

 /* Wiktionary-specific tooltips*/
 ...
 function headingToolTips() {
 ...
    // level 3, 4, and 5 headings depend on their content
    var h345 = new Array('h3', 'h4', 'h5');
 
    for (var j = 0; j < h345.length ; j++) {
 
      var allh345s = document.getElementById('bodyContent').getElementsByTagName(h345[j]);
 
      if (allh345s != -1) {
        for (var i = 0; i < allh345s.length; i++) {
 
          // part of speech
          var ht = allh345s[i].innerHTML.replace(/^(?:\d+(?:\.\d+)* )?(.*)/, "$1");
          if (ht.search(/editsection/) != -1) {
            ht = ht.split('<span class="mw-headline">')[1];
            ht = ht.split('</span>')[0];
          }

I'm using:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)

when I load: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ageless
I get an exception. What follows is what happens when I let the script debugger walk through, first using my own variants of the above, and then executing the actual code:

<pre><nowiki>
ht = allh345s[i].innerHTML.replace(/^(?:\d+(?:\.\d+)* )?(.*)/, "$1");

"<SPAN class=editsection>[<A title=\"Edit section: Etymology\" href=\"/w/index.php?title=ageless&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2\">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Etymology</SPAN>"

ht.search(/editsection/)

12

ht.search('<span class="mw-headline">')

-1

ht = allh345s[i].innerHTML.replace(/^(?:\d+(?:\.\d+)* )?(.*)/, "$1");

"<SPAN class=editsection>[<A title=\"Edit section: Etymology\" href=\"/w/index.php?title=ageless&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2\">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Etymology</SPAN>"

(ht.search(/editsection/) != -1)

true

ht = ht.split('<span class="mw-headline">')[1];

undefined

ht = ht.split('</span>')[0];

'ht' is null or not an object


--
The problem is that the code is assuming SPAN will be lowercase as part of innerHTML. it shouldn't do that. It could use /<span class="mw-headline">/i and /<\/span>/i instead. or it could be removed.
</nowiki></pre>
{{unsigned}}

:Interesting that the double quotes are stripped off, as well as "span" being converted to "SPAN".  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 03:47, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

:: OTOH, there is no excuse for using innerHTML.  I'll try to remember to fix this soon.  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 09:46, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

== Logins, don't ==

I'm running Firefox (latest version), on linux.  Cookies are enabled.  I login as 'fastluck' and am told that I have logged in successfully.  Then I attempt to edit my preferences to change my email address (or edit a page--doesn't matter).  Next, I am sent to a page that tells me I need to log in. This continues until I give up.

:Try logging out first, and then log in again. [[User:Stephen G. Brown|—Stephen]] 04:12, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Stephen,

Thanks. I had already tried that and it didn't change anything.

John

:In the [[Special:Preferences]] [misc] section, there is a "Disable page caching" item, that may be confounding your login.  If I recall correctly, that item is worded '''opposite''' the behavior, so try toggling the setting.  Also check your FF cache settings, and restart your browser after you log out.  I have not experienced the problem you report in a very long time now (on FF, IE, Netscape, Konqueror, lynx, w3c, etc.)  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 09:42, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


I'm having a problem with logging in.  I've tried using Opera9 and IE7.  On both browsers, wiktionary tells me I need to have cookies enabled.  I thought I did, but still cannot log in.  What kind of cookies are Wiktionary looking for?  I don't have any cookie problems with the wikipedia sites. --[[User:67.135.143.106|67.135.143.106]] 19:40, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

:The same '''exact''' software is used to perform the logins at both places.  You may have exemptions for *.wikipedia.org but not *.wiktionary.org (*.wikibooks.org, *.wikinews.org, etc.)  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 19:43, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

::Thanks.  I haven't figured it out.  But its something in my ZoneAlarm.  --[[User:Wiciwich|Wiciwich]] 19:54, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

== Results problem ==

When doing a special search for "far idiom" I find that I cannot get beyond the third page of the results, even though there's supposed to be quite a few more entries (147 of them) -- it stops first item of the third page -- perhaps there's some invalid character in the text of that item?

[[User:Enovickas|Enovickas]] 17:01, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

:No, there is nothing wrong with the item. This occurs with many such searches, where it claims to have found more pages than it actually displays. I don’t know the technical reasons for this, but it seems to be nothing more than a counting inconsistency. Perhaps it is counting the number of occurrences rather than the number of pages, and it appears more than once on some pages. [[User:Stephen G. Brown|—Stephen]] 17:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

: In [[Special:Preferences]] [search] tab, you can select '''all''' namespaces to be checked.  The Lucene search doesn't know a user's preference when it counts the potential matches, so if you have the default three namespaces selected (only) it will consistently give misleading results.  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 09:44, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

== Two web page suggestions ==

1. At http://wikipedia.org/ - the header tag says the charset is UTF-8 but there is a lot of stuff on the page (repeated on many other pages) that all of my UTF-8 browsers and editors show as question marks.  (While still rendering correctly some of the Arabic and Chinese)
:UTF-8 is an encoding scheme.  It enables your browsers to figure out what character is intended.  If you don't have those fonts loaded on your computer, (Control panel: Regional and Language Settings) you will see question marks or boxes.  I'm not sure how Firefox works around that limitation, but it seems to do a great job of rendering characters that other browsers do not.  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 04:56, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

2. On the search page, where there are numerous checkboxes for areas to search - I recommend putting a non-breaking space between the check box and its item.  Also for any spaces within item names.  Leave a 'normal' space between items.  This will prevent a check box on the end of a line with its label at the beginning of the next line.
:That is a good suggestion, however, that text is auto-generated by the MediaWiki software, so fixing that will take a while, probably after someone files a bug report on [[bugzilla:1|bugzilla]].  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 04:56, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

{{unsigned}}
:Please sign your posts with <tt><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></tt>.  Thanks.  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 04:56, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

== Missing Devnagari Characters ==

Hi. I was trying to correct the spellings of Hindi words typed in Devnagari script and to my great surprise many alphabets are missing. Most of the half letters cannot be typed. Characters for "Ksha", "shra", "tra" etc simply do not exist! What can be done about it? [[User:Msddn|Msddn]] 17:08, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

:Please supply the characters that are missing at [[MediaWiki talk:Edittools#Devanāgarī]] and one of us will try to get them in, soon.  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 17:22, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

::The words that you have ''corrected'' were already spelled correctly.  It seems that you do not possess the appropriate fonts for viewing Unicode characters.  I suggest you obtain one.  Half letters can be typed by the use of ''hala.nt'', which is the appropriate way.  To spell ''ksha'' you will have to type '''क''' '''्''' '''ष'''.  --[[User:Dijan|Dijan]] 19:25, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

::You probably have a font that does not allow for the correct display of characters by the use of the ''hala.nt'' and instead it assigns a unit to each half letter and ligature as well.  Please obtain a font, such as ''Xdvng.ttf'' for Devanagari, that is able to correct this error.  --[[User:Dijan|Dijan]] 19:28, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

== http://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:hu-hr/e   ???  ==

Hello,
Please help me. I was using this link/adress for some of my translations, but now I can't: http://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:hu-hr/e . is this some where else? Would you give me the new adress? Thank you!
Sylvia
:You might want to try an admin at the hu Wiktionary, who would be able to see the history of the deleted page. [[User:DAVilla|DAVilla]] 14:38, 3 May 2007 (UTC)



== werewolf ==
It could be just my machine, or my work's network, but every time I go to [[werewolf]] I get this error:
Appliance Error (internal_error) 

 
An unrecoverable error was encountered: ""  
This problem is unexpected. Please use the contact information below to obtain assistance.  

For assistance, contact your network support team. 

Any thoughts? [[User:Sewnmouthsecret|sewnmouthsecret]] 21:09, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

: <tt><nowiki>{{worksforme}}</nowiki></tt> - try calling your ISP?  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 21:12, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

::Hmm. I'll try at home and see if it works there; if so I'll leave it be. Thanks for checkin. [[User:Sewnmouthsecret|sewnmouthsecret]] 21:13, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

== <s>[[what it says on the tin]]</s> ==

Unable to revert to previous version as it seems to have no history now. [[User talk:DAVilla|DAVilla]] 07:01, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

: Never mind. [[User talk:DAVilla|DAVilla]] 07:03, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

==<s> [[claim]]</s> ==

I assume it is a bug. I can only see the top half of the page, but I can see the full editing script. I cant see any sort of nowiki in the edit page. - [[User:Algrif|Algrif]] 17:23, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
::OK found it. missing trans-bottom. - [[User:Algrif|Algrif]] 17:27, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

== <s>[[free-form]], [[free form]] and [[freeform]]</s> ==

There are 2 definitions of the same term in these page. [[User:Cumeo89|Cumeo89]] 18:25, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

: See my changes. If you find such instances in the future, you are welcome to edit.
: This isn't really a "bug report" since it doesn't concern the software. [[User talk:DAVilla|DAVilla]] 18:39, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

== Transclusions on protected pages ==

Unprotected pages that are transcluded on protected pages and would normally show edit tabs do not, despite the subpage itself being editable if the user is knowledgeable enough to find it. [[User talk:DAVilla|DAVilla]] 02:03, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

:If the page is that important (like the Main page) then "cascading protection" can be switched on which stops the subpages from being editable. Or are you saying something else, in which case could you give a link? [[User:Conrad.Irwin|Conrad]].[[User_talk:Conrad.Irwin|Irwin]] 23:32, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

:: What I said is true of [[Wiktionary:Votes]], which does not have cascading protection turned on. You have to log out to see that nothing on the page is editable, although [[Wiktionary:Votes/2008-01/IPA for English r]] for instance is. [[User talk:DAVilla|DAVilla]] 04:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

:::[[Wiktionary:Votes]] is semi-protected, which is why it is not editable by anonymous users. [http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=protect&user=&page=Wiktionary%3AVotes Special:Log] shows that it was protected for "edit=autoconfirmed" by Connel in September 2006. [[User:Mike Dillon|Mike Dillon]] 06:02, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

== Error message ==

I have a couple of times the last half hour or so gotten the message "Error, Setup.php must be included from the file scope, after DefaultSettings.php" instead of the actual page. As in, a blank page with this as it's only text. It's infrequent, and irregular, so I can't really pinpoint what's been happening. It's occurred both when searching and clicking on existing links. Anyone knows what's going on? [[User:Mike|\Mike]] 11:16, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

== <s>Something weird</s> ==

Something is wrong with the database or software. Look at [http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Template:patrol_box&diff=3721609&oldid=3721607 this last change] to [[Template:patrol box]]. It's just a single letter. But while the [http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Template:patrol_box&oldid=3721607 old revision] can't find the misspelled name in the Template space, the [http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Template:patrol_box&oldid=3721609 current revision] is looking for "patrol box/disply" in the Main namespace. I think it may have something to do with the fact that I overrode a redirect at [[Template:patrol box/display]] which was pointing to a page different from the one I was moving there. For a time, the revision history of that page said there was only one deleted edit, but later it was corrected to four. [[User talk:DAVilla|DAVilla]] 04:21, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

: Never mind, the problem was [http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Template:patrol_box/display&diff=3725869&oldid=3721642 here]. I never knew what would happen if a template referenced itself. How strange. [[User talk:DAVilla|DAVilla]] 16:35, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

:: ''Historic note: When templates were first turned on, the vandals of the day set to building recursive (and later, circular) template references which caused over five minutes of disruption.  Imagine not being able to save an edit for five minutes!  The horror!  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 06:23, 19 February 2008 (UTC)''


==Feature request: link all words==
Wiktionary!  Why isn't every single word in the definition a link back to it's Wiktionary definition by default?  That would make Wiktionary unbeatable dictionary source and also if the links turned red that didn't exist would show what words are missing.  Paul D.

:Firefox has that feature built in, and several alternates exsist to doubleclick a word on ''any'' website and look up that word here.  But Wiktionary prefers to put emphasis only on key terms, as appropriate.  Auto-linking all words prevents proper linking of multi-word terms (e.g. [[kick the bucket]]) which would be a horrible loss.  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 19:20, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

::Okay but 1. Not everybody uses Firefox 2. word groupings could be maintained as needed so that if your [[kick the bucket]] gets maintained with brackets around the whole then it's a unit.  Otherwise it's good to link to each word independently so you can understand what [[kick]] [[the]] [[bucket]] literally means.

:::Linking every word also puts a very large load in the servers which as we know constantly need updating as more and more people use Wikipedia and friends. Every linked word means a database lookup. Linking just relevant words is a lot less stressful for the servers. Also, many of us don't want every word linked - it's just too distracting. Now what should be possible is for somebody to use the ToolServer to make some kind of tool that shows pages with every word linked, preferably looking at an offline database rather than the main one. It would be a very useful tool but there would be some difficulties including correct parsing to avoid re-linking words that are already linked as a group, and handling apostrophes and hyphens, both of which are sometimes part of a word and sometimes punctuation. Another concern is that Wiktionary is for all languages and quite a few major languages such as Chinese, Japanese{{,}} and Thai do not put spaces between words so that any automatic treatment is not really possible and would produce garbage results. &mdash; [[User:Hippietrail|Hippietrail]] 17:41, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

:::Your general demeanor is troubling.  First there should be little or no load on the servers.  Every linked word does NOT necessarily mean a database lookup.  The URL is known only by the word (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/word).  You must be joking about "many of us don't want every word linked".  Because many of US do want every word linked.  Normally when going to a dictionary to find something that is defined with words you also don't understand will result in more lookups.  Distracting? lol that's funny.  Entries still will get parsed so that corrections can be made for apostrophes and hyphens; there's no difference between that and [[kick the bucket]]  Chinese & Japanese -- sorry about ya.  This works for the majority of languages.  Anyone who has learned a foreign language knows how beneficitial this feature would be. <small>—This unsigned comment was added by [[User:12.135.52.82|12.135.52.82]] ([[User talk:12.135.52.82|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/12.135.52.82|contribs]]) 2006-07-14 13:31:03.</small>

::::Anon, your specific demeanor is troubling. Hippietrail is right about the server load. Each page save would require significant database load in order for the server to determine which words should be blue-linked and which red-linked. Did you even bother to look at a URL for red-links before posting above? If not, look at the link for [[purposely red-linked phrase|this]]. Hippietrail is not joking when he says that many of us don't want every word linked. Editors here generally make good decisions about which words to link, as Connel explained above. Note also that only [[lemma|lemmata]] get full definitions here, so having the software automatically link everything would force the reader to click through the inflected form to get to the entry with meaning. Your ''anyone who has learned a foreign language knows how [[beneficitial]] this feature would be...'' is not only [[wrong]], but [[rude]]. [[User:Rodasmith|Rod]] <small>([[User talk:Rodasmith|A. Smith]])</small> 04:45, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

::::Anon1 is right.  If all words are entries then they are all blue; meaning no database lookup.

:: This is a pretty good idea.  The problem discussed is only to red/blue the words.  What if the color stayed black?  It wouldn't be "distracting", wouldn't require a database lookup but may or may not have an entry.  Just a thought.
::: Hey, why not? I still think phrases should be linked as they are, but otherwise any unlinked word could very easily be linked in black, with no server load at all. [[User:DAVilla|DAVilla]] 05:11, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

:::: As a WT:PREF, yes, I could see that.  Once they load a page, every word not already linked could get one, from a small Javascript bookmarklet.  If we wanted to get really fancy, they could each be spell-checked and given a red background (if not wikified, and kicked out by the spell check.)  Or course, the toolserver would melt.  (30,000 anon users x 3 pages x 200 words would be a lot of redundant spell checking, for just one day.)  --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie]] 09:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

: We could use the feedback system to gauge how many users would actually like it. As a dictionary we have a slightly different aim than an encyclopedia, but Wikipedia decided against the "Allwiki" idea (see [[w:Wikipedia:Build the web]]). --[[User:Bequw|Bequw]] → [[Special:Contributions/Bequw|¢]] • [[User talk:Bequw|τ]] 15:27, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

== Wiktionary does not yet have an entry for NAMESPACE:Article ==

See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13636 [[User:Jidanni|Jidanni]] 22:51, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
:Resolved (to my satisfaction anyway). [[User:Conrad.Irwin|Conrad]].[[User_talk:Conrad.Irwin|Irwin]] 23:00, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

== cusor ==

Is it possible to default the cursor to the search box?  I have no technical knowledge, just want to be able to access the dictionaries more easily.

: We would like to make that happen as well, although there are certain technical restrictions with the system that we use. See [[WT:GP#Focus_for_first_input_by_normal_user_.28i.e._text_string_in_search_field.29|this thread]] for more info. --[[User:Bequw|Bequw]] → [[Special:Contributions/Bequw|¢]] • [[User talk:Bequw|τ]] 16:02, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

== Weird edit ==

I recently unified my accounts on Wikipedia. I first visited Wiktionary a few days ago and just made an edit. Then I checked my contributions and found it lists an edit I didn't make. Did someone own this account before I came here? [[User:Fisdof9|Fisdof9]] 04:25, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

:They are probably edits that were [[transwiki]]ed from another Wikimedia site. [[User:Mike Dillon|Mike Dillon]] 04:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

==Error at gride ==

At the entry [[gride]], the gerund is given as "grideing" and the past tense is "grideed" (instead of "griding" and "grided". What are we going to do about these words that drop the E? [[Special:Contributions/75.58.19.21|75.58.19.21]] 04:22, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

:Fixed. Just put in the proper forms. [[User:Stephen G. Brown|—Stephen]] 11:55, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

==Internet Explorer 7 search-box==

Not sure if this is a bug exactly. For users of Internet Explorer 7, the search box at the top right of the toolbar allows for adding an array of different search providers. In order to do so, you must first go to the home page of the search provider you wish to add, and type the word "'''TEST'''" (in all capitals, without the surrounding quotes) into the search box & click "ENTER". You then copy the link from your address bar of the resulting page, and paste it into the "Find Search Providers" form for I.E. Doing so adds the chosen search provider to the drop-down list on your toolbar. I have a number of different providers, of all different types. Wiktionary was one I definitely wanted to add, however, Internet Explorer wouldn't recognize it (an error message pops up saying "the search results URL must contain the word test- please check the URL, etc, etc"). I tried several times, still getting the same error message (despite the fact that the search results URL '''''did''''' contain the word '''test'''! Here is the URL: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/test

Maybe because the word TEST, although in all caps in the query, was not in all caps in the results page URL. It would be great to have Wiktionary in my search providers list, but for some reason it will not go through.

{{unsigned}}

:Did you try pressing "Search", instead of "Go?"  -[[User:Atelaes|Atelaes]] <small>[[User talk:Atelaes|λάλει ἐμοί]]</small> 23:50, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

: I see the problem. If you type "TEST" in the search-box and click "Go", it sends you to <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=TEST&go=Go>. Since we don't have an entry for {{term|TEST}}, but do have one for {{term|test}}, that page redirects you to our entry for {{term|test}}: <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/test>. You then gave that URL to Internet Explorer, and as you've guessed, it couldn't process that URL, because it contained <tt>test</tt> instead of <tt>TEST</tt>. Since this is probably a common problem, I think it might be worth it to us to create an entry for {{term|TEST}}, perhaps with an {{temp|only in}}-type message. —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 16:04, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

: You realize you answered your own question? Just change "test" to "TEST" in the URL you are entering in the IE box. However a better URL to enter would be <code>http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search/TEST</code> That, of course, doesn't help anyone who doesn't happen to read this ... you might use Firefox, Wiktionary search is built-in. We should create a TEST page I think. [[User:Robert Ullmann|Robert Ullmann]] 16:24, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

:: Added [[TEST]], I think it will help. (If someone actually ''reads'' it, they will do even better!) [[User:Robert Ullmann|Robert Ullmann]] 16:34, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

:Very strange. I use IE7, but I don't remember ever using that search box. I've just had a look and I've got Google as default + Wiktionary (en) - where did that come from? [[User:SemperBlotto|SemperBlotto]] 16:27, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

:: There was some widget or code floating around that would add the wikt to IE, before IE7 added the present configuration option. Presumably you must have tried it? [[User:Robert Ullmann|Robert Ullmann]] 16:34, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

== Error in Appendix List ==

I have found a small but annoying problem inthe appendix list. When I try to scroll through the list of  appendices, I find that the next page has only one entry-which, strangely begins with the letter G.
[[User:Mathmagic|Mathmagic]] 00:40, 20 August 2008 (UTC)