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 Dear, Welcome to MediaWiki.org !

Yes, welcome! While this site does allow anonymous editing, you might want to consider creating an account, doing so is free and requires no personal information and provides many benefits such as:
 * Creating new pages, and customize the appearance and behavior of the website
 * Rename pages
 * Edit semi-protected pages
 * Have your own watchlist, which shows when articles you are interested in have changed.
 * Email other users if one has specified a valid email address, itself recommended.

This site is dedicated to documenting the MediaWiki software, the software behind many wikis, including that of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation projects.

Please, take a look at the following pages. They might prove useful to you as a newcomer here:
 * Landing instructions
 * Project:About
 * How does MediaWiki work?
 * Help:Editing pages
 * Frequently asked questions
 * How to contribute

If you have any questions, please ask me on my talk page. Once again, welcome, and I hope you come to feel comfortable here, and find this site useful documentation of the MediaWiki software. Thanks, and regards,

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