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 ## Semantic versioning
 
-WeeChat is following a "practical" semantic versioning, see file [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md#semantic-versioning).
+WeeChat follows "practical" semantic versioning; see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md#semantic-versioning).
 
 ## Copyright