Welcome, Linuxerist, to
Esperanza, the
Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the
Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the
Charter, the governing document of the association. Now that you are a member you should read the
guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our
programs. A quite important program is the
StressUnit, which seeks to support
editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We will send you newsletters to keep you up to date. Also, we have a
calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow. In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at
Esperanza/Possibles. I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general,
Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee comprised of
JoanneB,
FireFox and
Titoxd. The next set of elections will be in April, we will keep you updated about the results. Because you are a new member, you are not able to vote in these elections, but you will be more than welcome to take part in the elections in June. If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact Celestianpower by
email or
talk page or the
Esperanza talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel,
#wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). If you're new to IRC, you may find help at an
IRC Tutorial written by one of our members. I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work!
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