User talk:TimShell~metawiki

No welcome message on this page here? So I take the job to welcome you at meta-wiki - I'm glad that you decided to get involved in wikipedia (stepping out of the anonymity of being just a name on the board ;-) I wish you a lot of fun here. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask on my talk page. --Elian 09:39, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

For the otrs - can you ask me on IRC? I'm around there for the next hours this afternoon/evening. --Elian 12:21, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

For the OTRS I need your e-mail address. best is to contact me on IRC (nick elian), otherwise send me a mail to elian@djini.de - then I can create an account for you and mail you the password. --Elian 21:35, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

notes from anthere's talk at wikimanis 20050805==

Goals of WMF:

1) create content in many languages
2) provide to the public for free

sum of all human knowledge:

a) NPOV
b) adderssing everyone's concerns
c) covering all topics - not just stuff of interest to westerners

How Wikimedia projects could help:

• Building a collection of local African knowledge
• Making it available to African people

Tools, cd roms in libraries, audio content, free wiki engine

WMF can do:

a) promote projects in developing countries - 
b) contact with researchers, educationsl system, immigration services
c) 
d) financial support for special projects
e) Lobbying for encoding issues
f) hiring editors in chief
g) local language wikinews

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called TimShell. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name TimShell~metawiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

04:11, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

20:41, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

File:CaptionJimbo1.jpg

Hello. When you uploaded File:CaptionJimbo1.jpg, you did not specify complete source and copyright information. Another user subsequently tagged it with {{GFDL-presumed}} and, for some time, it has existed on Meta-Wiki under the assumption that you created the image and you agreed to license it under the GFDL. This assumption, however well-meaning, is not legally sufficient and the tag is being phased out. Images using it are being deleted. This image has been tagged for deletion and will be deleted in one week if adequate copyright information is not provided.

If you, personally, are the author of this content, meaning that you took the photograph yourself or you created the chart yourself (and it does not use any clipart that you did not create), please retag the image with a free image copyright tag that correctly describes your licensing intentions, usually {{GFDL-self}} or {{PD-self}}. Please also make sure if you have not already done so that you write a good description of what the image depicts, when you took the photo, and other important details. This will allow Meta-Wiki to continue using the image.

If you did not create the image or if it is derived from the copyrighted works of others, please keep in mind that most images on the internet are copyrighted and are not suitable for use on Meta-Wiki. Meta-Wiki respects the copyrights of others and does not use images unless we know that they have been freely licensed. Any creative work is automatically copyrighted, even if it lacks a copyright notice. Unless the copyright holder has specifically disclaimed their rights to the image and released it under the GFDL or another compatible license, we cannot use it. If you did not create the image, simply do nothing and it will be deleted in a week.

Please feel free to contact me on my talk page or leave a message at Meta:Babel with any questions you may have. Thank you. —MarcoAurelio 18:52, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Join us for “Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages”!

Hello TimShell~metawiki,

We’re excited to invite you to an inspiring global virtual gathering: the first Capacity Exchange Translat-a-thon.

Together with Language Diversity Hub, the Capacity Exchange (CapX) team will host its first Translation Marathon dedicated to ensuring linguistic equity in access to this amazing tool aimed to connect Wikimedians.
If you enjoy contributing to Wikimedia projects through translating and adapting content into different languages, this event is for you! Join us in the celebration of the multilingual spirit of the Wikimedia Movement at an event where communities that contribute in diverse languages will be able to share local knowledge and collaborate across borders.
Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages

• Date: December 6, 2025
• Time: 12 PM (UTC) - Check the event page for your local timezone
• Location: Online (Meta-Wiki + live session links)

Register for the Event here

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Outreach Facilitator,
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