Dynamic 2015

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-- Meta-Wiki Welcome (talk) 07:27, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

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Hello, Dynamic 2015.

Thank you for your comments on the 2015 Strategy community consultation. These are being reviewed by Wikimedia Foundation staff and by other movement volunteers and will help us determine the direction the Wikimedia Foundation should take in its strategies. If there are questions, you may receive follow-up there. However, I wanted to drop by this, your personal user talk page, because it looks like you have a brand new account, and I wanted to thank you for taking the time to register. I appreciate your interest in Wikimedia, and I'd like to offer you a little more information on how else you can contribute, if you like.

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As mentioned above, most of our projects' policies and practices are created by volunteers, who can best help if you have questions about the volunteering experience. If you would like more information, you may want to visit the "help" forums linked on the left hand side of each page on our websites to learn where questions can be addressed to the community of that particular project. If you cannot find the information you seek or have other questions for or about the projects, you might want to write to the volunteer email response team at infowikimediaorg. Volunteers are available to offer guidance in many different languages.

Thank you again for sharing your thoughts, and I hope you will decide to join us. Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 17:20, 1 March 2015 (UTC)