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Created Virtex_(FPGA), MPLAB and MPLAB devices recently, but not sure about naming conventions. Should it be Xilinx Virtex and Microchip MPLAB, Microchip MPLAB devices instead?
Also the pages are almost invisible on Google, meaning I'm wondering what the point of writing such articles are, if the article does not appear when people search for similar terms on Google. What can be done to improve SEO/ranking/discoverablity on Google/WP itself? Where are good places to add "see also" links to such newly created articles? I've added them to appropriate navboxes already (also created by me)
Wonderfl (reply) 04:57, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind comments. I do not work for the FPGA companies I diligently document products for. I started the articles because those were the flagship line of products from the company. No kidding. Do a google news search or a google book search and see how many mention those products in SPECIFIC. Those families are the "high-performance" families, from a technical standpoint. I don't know how to say that in the article without you taking it out, so I invite you, please, add that in, someway that conforms to your strict "anti-advertisement" standards. I am neutral and prefer "de-facto" truths rather than "advertised" blah. So I usually write things that are meaningful to people from that sector. You seem to think I'm advertising, but I'm not. Go ahead. Add a statement into both those articles to show they are "high performance", heck some chips are used on space shuttles, ion colliders, everywhere you can imagine. I need to describe that the Virtex/Stratix series is the high-performance series and the others are slower/smaller (less gates). How do I do that? How do I write that? -- Wonderfl (reply) 13:59, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
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Keep up the good work Theroadislong ( talk) 15:51, 22 January 2015 (UTC) |
You add a programmable logic navbox to the Coverity page. I see that Synopsys bought Coverity. Synopsys has other sub-companies that do programmable logic; but not Coverity. I don't think the navbox makes any sense here. I really don't understand the Coverity link being in the Programmable logic navbox. Synopsys and some sub-companies are doing programmable logic, but not Coverity. I was going to remove the navbox from the Coverity page, but thought it would be polite to leave a comment and maybe I missed something. If I am correct, the edit should be undone, and it should probably be removed from the navbox. Possibly they are developing VHDL, verilog and SystemC checkers. 71.19.161.130 ( talk) 18:42, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Sometimes, dreams come true. OpenStudio. Made to order. Have fun!
Consider awarding me a barnstar if I helped you! (visit my talk page and click the heart icon) -- Wonderfl (reply) 20:40, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for the OpenStudio page duncan.lithgow ( talk) 22:09, 31 January 2015 (UTC) |
You seem to be confused about the relationship of Haxe and OpenFL, so I would like to clarify. Haxe is a language and a compiler on which OpenFL is built. This relationship is directional: OpenFL depends on Haxe but in contrast Haxe has no inherent notion of what OpenFL even is. It is then irrelevant to the description of Haxe itself, which is what the introduction text should provide.
It is not the job of the Haxe wikipedia page to improve the "discoverability of OpenFL". However, as I suggested OpenFL could be listed in a "Software built on Haxe" section in the Haxe article. From a Haxe point of view it is on the same level as Flambe or Kha which could both be mentioned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SimonHaxe ( talk • contribs) 17:02, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi SuperHamster, thanks for your help on Nodejs. This year I've participated on WP a lot. New articles like MPLAB devices, Flare3D, Away3D, Lightbot, OpenStudio, as well as new sections on topics I have worked with : OrCAD#Products, SpeedTree#Products, and so on. Consider awarding me a barnstar, for a little happiness goes a long way! Kudos Wonderfl (reply) 07:18, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Wonderfl: Hey, sorry for the delayed reply - been a busy last couple of days for me. You're free and encouraged to place articles in WikiProjects. Regarding requesting ratings, you usually don't do anything - if you leave a rating/assessment field blank, WikiProject members will oftentimes swing by to rate it (assuming the WikiProject is active). The most direct benefit of ratings is that it mostly serves as a way to keep track of how much progress is being made in a WikiProject's subset of articles, and for editors to be able to identify articles that need expanding.
Regarding article importance, most WikiProjects have their own guide for how to assess that (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games/Assessment#Importance_scale, for video games). I note that WikiProject Computing also has one, though it's very brief and rather subjective.
The reason why all your ratings are turning up as "start" is because that's what you defined the parameter as in your templates: {{WikiProject Computing|class=start|importance=|software=yes|software-importance=}}
. You need to indicate its class yourself. ~
Super
Hamster
Talk
Contribs 05:56, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
P.S. I think you'll find the general assessment FAQ to be helpful. ~ Super Hamster Talk Contribs 06:04, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi again. I just created the Antivirus navbox but after I added the list of desktop/mobile products into it, it looks like a mess. Any way to clean it up or is it fine as it is? Also note that multiple links link to the same article. Many products don't have an article so its actually linking to the company page. Like CYSEC or F-Secure or Panda Security. Is this fine? Basically the term can refer to the company and/or the product. So it makes sense to add it into both sections. Comments/feedback is appreciated.
It might also make sense to merge desktop/mobile products into one list, removing the duplicates. Note that between desktop/mobile 90% are dups (link to the same underlying article), although the product names may differ.
Wonderfl (reply) 11:07, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
For some years, ISE was run on Linux using Wine. I never tried it, but many said it worked well.
But now, Xilinx has downloads for both Windows (32 and 64 bit) and Linux (32 and 64 bit).
Since Scientific Linux is supposed to have full Red Hat compatibility, and maybe others also do, I don't see any problem. Right now, I am running on Windows because that is what I have available, but soon hope to run Linux ISE.
http://www.xilinx.com/support/download/index.html/content/xilinx/en/downloadNav/design-tools.html
-- glen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gah4 ( talk • contribs) 23:01, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Talk:Xilinx_ISE the "Linux notes" section has your name on it. I put the xilinx.com link above to download it. I haven't actually tried running it, is that necessary? (Wouldn't that be original research?) Gah4 ( talk) 17:15, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello Wonderfl. I guarantee 100% that Michelle Alsip Welsh was one of the founders of FutureWave. She is my mother. Please do not feel bad about not knowing of her involvement. Everyone seems to be attempting to write her name off of history. Michelle, Jonathan, and Charlie did negotiations with Norm Meyrowitz and Betsey Nelson to sell FutureSplash to Macromedia. My mom is not one who is a "glory hound", but now people are starting to doubt that she was even part of the program. Here is a link to the Adobe history page. You will find her name in there. If you would send me your email, I would be happy to send you my mom's business card and Charlie Jackson's home phone number. We would be happy to assist you in the history of Flash. My email is scootunit007@gmail.com
By: Zane Welsh — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scootunit007 ( talk • contribs) 04:56, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
Hey there! Ytai here, creator of the IOIO. Thanks so much for writing that page, been a long overdue of mine... A couple of minor corrections/suggestions:
1. The image attached is pretty poor, both in terms of image quality and board quality (it's a cheap knockoff). The SparkFun product page has high quality images that are properly licensed to be used here I believe.
2. The text might be understood as if this project is a Google project. It's not. I just happen to work for Google as my day job. Consider rewording of completely removing this fact.
3. The IOIO manager app is obsolete, being used only for IOIO v1. The IOIO-OTG have their firmware upgraded by connecting the IOIO to a PC and using the ioiodude app.
4. Some cool features not mentioned, consider mentioning them: input capture, capacitive sensing, advanced motor control.
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Thanks again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.3.142.64 ( talk) 04:45, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Cool. As far as images, here are some options that I like, choose one:
All are CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, as you can verify on the product page.
Regarding the motor control API, I meant the API described here: https://github.com/ytai/ioio/wiki/Motor-control It allows synchronized precision control of up to 9 motors of different kinds (e.g. stepper, DC, brushless) in different modes (position, speed) + binary actuators (e.g. solenoids, LEDs). Makes it possible to drive e.g. a CNC machine with the IOIO (such as my IOIO Plotter).
Thanks again!
P.S. SeeedStudio are also one of the official manufacturers, selling it for $30 in BLACK. Consider mentioning them too: http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/IOIO-OTG-for-Android-p-1615.html. In fact, the upcoming (minor) version of the IOIO-OTG is going to be sold on Seeed first.
Ytaibt ( talk) 04:51, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
Sorry for taking long to respond. The article is becoming nicer, so thanks again for the great work!
A couple of nits:
Ytaibt ( talk) 05:28, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
Thanks for taking the initiative to write about the IOIO! This article has been notably missing for a long time. Ytaibt ( talk) 05:33, 22 July 2015 (UTC) |
IOIO. Totally new article. How does it look? Is the "technical details" part too detailed? I hope someone doesn't come along and delete the section citing some obscure WP policy. Please reply on my talk page or alert me using Ping.
Wonderfl (reply) 08:27, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
The Last Door. I didn't change much. But I added all the quotes. Too many quotes?
Wonderfl (reply) 11:24, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
Can you contact SparkFun as the author of the IOIO asking for permission to use 1, 2 and 3 on Wikipedia? I'm having some licensing issues, and the way the situation presently stands I cannot use any SparkFun images on WP.
They will need to send the following email from one of their @SPARKFUN.COM accounts to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org, and I'll need the OTRS number provided in response.
Wonderfl (reply) 11:31, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
To whom it may concern,
I hereby affirm that I represent SparkFun Electronics, the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the following:
I agree to publish the above-mentioned content under the free license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.
I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites.
I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by me.
I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
<NAME>
<DESIGNATION>
Appointed representative of SparkFun Electronics
27 July 2015
No problem. I'm following up with SFE and will send you the number as soon as I have it. Thanks!!!
Ytaibt ( talk) 04:33, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
I just got a notification that a ticket has been filed. Please follow up on ticket #2015080610020737. Ytaibt ( talk) 19:58, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
The copyright issues with the IOIO images appear to have been resolved. Can you please verify that and possible undo the removal changes?
Thanks!
Ytaibt ( talk) 04:09, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
Greetings:
User: Wonderfl wrote on my talk page about three images I deleted.
He wrote "My contact at the company says Please follow up on ticket #2015080610020737. ... The original images are here:"
Would it be possible for someone to verify this number for Wonderfl and provide assistance relevant to this folder? Thank you! Ellin Beltz ( talk) 15:54, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
When the original images were deleted, my derivations were also deleted. Now that the originals have licenses (see below), can you please restore my derivations too? Also, is this cropped image correctly uploaded? (license, etc) Wonderfl ( talk) 10:05, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
The original images are here:
The derivations images are here:
I've also messaged User:Green Giant about this.
Wonderfl ( talk) 15:38, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
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Created Virtex_(FPGA), MPLAB and MPLAB devices recently, but not sure about naming conventions. Should it be Xilinx Virtex and Microchip MPLAB, Microchip MPLAB devices instead?
Also the pages are almost invisible on Google, meaning I'm wondering what the point of writing such articles are, if the article does not appear when people search for similar terms on Google. What can be done to improve SEO/ranking/discoverablity on Google/WP itself? Where are good places to add "see also" links to such newly created articles? I've added them to appropriate navboxes already (also created by me)
Wonderfl (reply) 04:57, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind comments. I do not work for the FPGA companies I diligently document products for. I started the articles because those were the flagship line of products from the company. No kidding. Do a google news search or a google book search and see how many mention those products in SPECIFIC. Those families are the "high-performance" families, from a technical standpoint. I don't know how to say that in the article without you taking it out, so I invite you, please, add that in, someway that conforms to your strict "anti-advertisement" standards. I am neutral and prefer "de-facto" truths rather than "advertised" blah. So I usually write things that are meaningful to people from that sector. You seem to think I'm advertising, but I'm not. Go ahead. Add a statement into both those articles to show they are "high performance", heck some chips are used on space shuttles, ion colliders, everywhere you can imagine. I need to describe that the Virtex/Stratix series is the high-performance series and the others are slower/smaller (less gates). How do I do that? How do I write that? -- Wonderfl (reply) 13:59, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
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The Special Barnstar |
Keep up the good work Theroadislong ( talk) 15:51, 22 January 2015 (UTC) |
You add a programmable logic navbox to the Coverity page. I see that Synopsys bought Coverity. Synopsys has other sub-companies that do programmable logic; but not Coverity. I don't think the navbox makes any sense here. I really don't understand the Coverity link being in the Programmable logic navbox. Synopsys and some sub-companies are doing programmable logic, but not Coverity. I was going to remove the navbox from the Coverity page, but thought it would be polite to leave a comment and maybe I missed something. If I am correct, the edit should be undone, and it should probably be removed from the navbox. Possibly they are developing VHDL, verilog and SystemC checkers. 71.19.161.130 ( talk) 18:42, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Sometimes, dreams come true. OpenStudio. Made to order. Have fun!
Consider awarding me a barnstar if I helped you! (visit my talk page and click the heart icon) -- Wonderfl (reply) 20:40, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
Thanks for the OpenStudio page duncan.lithgow ( talk) 22:09, 31 January 2015 (UTC) |
You seem to be confused about the relationship of Haxe and OpenFL, so I would like to clarify. Haxe is a language and a compiler on which OpenFL is built. This relationship is directional: OpenFL depends on Haxe but in contrast Haxe has no inherent notion of what OpenFL even is. It is then irrelevant to the description of Haxe itself, which is what the introduction text should provide.
It is not the job of the Haxe wikipedia page to improve the "discoverability of OpenFL". However, as I suggested OpenFL could be listed in a "Software built on Haxe" section in the Haxe article. From a Haxe point of view it is on the same level as Flambe or Kha which could both be mentioned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SimonHaxe ( talk • contribs) 17:02, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi SuperHamster, thanks for your help on Nodejs. This year I've participated on WP a lot. New articles like MPLAB devices, Flare3D, Away3D, Lightbot, OpenStudio, as well as new sections on topics I have worked with : OrCAD#Products, SpeedTree#Products, and so on. Consider awarding me a barnstar, for a little happiness goes a long way! Kudos Wonderfl (reply) 07:18, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Wonderfl: Hey, sorry for the delayed reply - been a busy last couple of days for me. You're free and encouraged to place articles in WikiProjects. Regarding requesting ratings, you usually don't do anything - if you leave a rating/assessment field blank, WikiProject members will oftentimes swing by to rate it (assuming the WikiProject is active). The most direct benefit of ratings is that it mostly serves as a way to keep track of how much progress is being made in a WikiProject's subset of articles, and for editors to be able to identify articles that need expanding.
Regarding article importance, most WikiProjects have their own guide for how to assess that (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games/Assessment#Importance_scale, for video games). I note that WikiProject Computing also has one, though it's very brief and rather subjective.
The reason why all your ratings are turning up as "start" is because that's what you defined the parameter as in your templates: {{WikiProject Computing|class=start|importance=|software=yes|software-importance=}}
. You need to indicate its class yourself. ~
Super
Hamster
Talk
Contribs 05:56, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
P.S. I think you'll find the general assessment FAQ to be helpful. ~ Super Hamster Talk Contribs 06:04, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi again. I just created the Antivirus navbox but after I added the list of desktop/mobile products into it, it looks like a mess. Any way to clean it up or is it fine as it is? Also note that multiple links link to the same article. Many products don't have an article so its actually linking to the company page. Like CYSEC or F-Secure or Panda Security. Is this fine? Basically the term can refer to the company and/or the product. So it makes sense to add it into both sections. Comments/feedback is appreciated.
It might also make sense to merge desktop/mobile products into one list, removing the duplicates. Note that between desktop/mobile 90% are dups (link to the same underlying article), although the product names may differ.
Wonderfl (reply) 11:07, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
For some years, ISE was run on Linux using Wine. I never tried it, but many said it worked well.
But now, Xilinx has downloads for both Windows (32 and 64 bit) and Linux (32 and 64 bit).
Since Scientific Linux is supposed to have full Red Hat compatibility, and maybe others also do, I don't see any problem. Right now, I am running on Windows because that is what I have available, but soon hope to run Linux ISE.
http://www.xilinx.com/support/download/index.html/content/xilinx/en/downloadNav/design-tools.html
-- glen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gah4 ( talk • contribs) 23:01, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Talk:Xilinx_ISE the "Linux notes" section has your name on it. I put the xilinx.com link above to download it. I haven't actually tried running it, is that necessary? (Wouldn't that be original research?) Gah4 ( talk) 17:15, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello Wonderfl. I guarantee 100% that Michelle Alsip Welsh was one of the founders of FutureWave. She is my mother. Please do not feel bad about not knowing of her involvement. Everyone seems to be attempting to write her name off of history. Michelle, Jonathan, and Charlie did negotiations with Norm Meyrowitz and Betsey Nelson to sell FutureSplash to Macromedia. My mom is not one who is a "glory hound", but now people are starting to doubt that she was even part of the program. Here is a link to the Adobe history page. You will find her name in there. If you would send me your email, I would be happy to send you my mom's business card and Charlie Jackson's home phone number. We would be happy to assist you in the history of Flash. My email is scootunit007@gmail.com
By: Zane Welsh — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scootunit007 ( talk • contribs) 04:56, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
Hey there! Ytai here, creator of the IOIO. Thanks so much for writing that page, been a long overdue of mine... A couple of minor corrections/suggestions:
1. The image attached is pretty poor, both in terms of image quality and board quality (it's a cheap knockoff). The SparkFun product page has high quality images that are properly licensed to be used here I believe.
2. The text might be understood as if this project is a Google project. It's not. I just happen to work for Google as my day job. Consider rewording of completely removing this fact.
3. The IOIO manager app is obsolete, being used only for IOIO v1. The IOIO-OTG have their firmware upgraded by connecting the IOIO to a PC and using the ioiodude app.
4. Some cool features not mentioned, consider mentioning them: input capture, capacitive sensing, advanced motor control.
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Thanks again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.3.142.64 ( talk) 04:45, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Cool. As far as images, here are some options that I like, choose one:
All are CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, as you can verify on the product page.
Regarding the motor control API, I meant the API described here: https://github.com/ytai/ioio/wiki/Motor-control It allows synchronized precision control of up to 9 motors of different kinds (e.g. stepper, DC, brushless) in different modes (position, speed) + binary actuators (e.g. solenoids, LEDs). Makes it possible to drive e.g. a CNC machine with the IOIO (such as my IOIO Plotter).
Thanks again!
P.S. SeeedStudio are also one of the official manufacturers, selling it for $30 in BLACK. Consider mentioning them too: http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/IOIO-OTG-for-Android-p-1615.html. In fact, the upcoming (minor) version of the IOIO-OTG is going to be sold on Seeed first.
Ytaibt ( talk) 04:51, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
Sorry for taking long to respond. The article is becoming nicer, so thanks again for the great work!
A couple of nits:
Ytaibt ( talk) 05:28, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
Thanks for taking the initiative to write about the IOIO! This article has been notably missing for a long time. Ytaibt ( talk) 05:33, 22 July 2015 (UTC) |
IOIO. Totally new article. How does it look? Is the "technical details" part too detailed? I hope someone doesn't come along and delete the section citing some obscure WP policy. Please reply on my talk page or alert me using Ping.
Wonderfl (reply) 08:27, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
The Last Door. I didn't change much. But I added all the quotes. Too many quotes?
Wonderfl (reply) 11:24, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
Can you contact SparkFun as the author of the IOIO asking for permission to use 1, 2 and 3 on Wikipedia? I'm having some licensing issues, and the way the situation presently stands I cannot use any SparkFun images on WP.
They will need to send the following email from one of their @SPARKFUN.COM accounts to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org, and I'll need the OTRS number provided in response.
Wonderfl (reply) 11:31, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
To whom it may concern,
I hereby affirm that I represent SparkFun Electronics, the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the following:
I agree to publish the above-mentioned content under the free license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.
I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites.
I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by me.
I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
<NAME>
<DESIGNATION>
Appointed representative of SparkFun Electronics
27 July 2015
No problem. I'm following up with SFE and will send you the number as soon as I have it. Thanks!!!
Ytaibt ( talk) 04:33, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
I just got a notification that a ticket has been filed. Please follow up on ticket #2015080610020737. Ytaibt ( talk) 19:58, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
The copyright issues with the IOIO images appear to have been resolved. Can you please verify that and possible undo the removal changes?
Thanks!
Ytaibt ( talk) 04:09, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
Greetings:
User: Wonderfl wrote on my talk page about three images I deleted.
He wrote "My contact at the company says Please follow up on ticket #2015080610020737. ... The original images are here:"
Would it be possible for someone to verify this number for Wonderfl and provide assistance relevant to this folder? Thank you! Ellin Beltz ( talk) 15:54, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
When the original images were deleted, my derivations were also deleted. Now that the originals have licenses (see below), can you please restore my derivations too? Also, is this cropped image correctly uploaded? (license, etc) Wonderfl ( talk) 10:05, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
The original images are here:
The derivations images are here:
I've also messaged User:Green Giant about this.
Wonderfl ( talk) 15:38, 15 August 2015 (UTC)