MediaWiki default

whakatau!

Well, I'm sure Perl (to whom we are in debt for his contribution to getting this Wikipedia really rolling over a 2-month period, after Brion did a basic starting edit on 26 Hanuere 2004 and User:A_Pakeha soon got stuck in too) knew what he meant by that: he would have found it in an English-Maori dictionary. But Perl hasn't contributed anything in the last 54 weeks and must be considered unlikely to return. The Reed Pocket dictionary says this: "whakatau(-ria) decide, charge (legal), to bark, intently". Take your pick!! Anyway, our recently-arrived sysop from Germany (Reinhardt in München) has apparently (as the entry has "N" beside it) just created a related page: "N 09:15 User:MediaWiki default (diff; hist) . . Gangleri (Talk | block) (please do not delete this)", so we can respect that, whatever it all means! Robin Patterson 01:12, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

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 MediaWiki default. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name MediaWiki default~miwiki 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

03:42, 18 Māehe 2015 (UTC)