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Fred Smith 03:07, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Again, welcome and let us know how we can help you help us on the WordPress Codex.
- MichaelH (talk) 00:36, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
- Good idea to subst welcome messages ;). I'm a MediaWiki Developer so fairly used to MediaWiki, just fixing stuff up I see as I'm writing a migration plugin from a custom site to WordPress for someone =) Reedy 12:23, 11 July 2010 (UTC)