Wellcome, if you want to leave a message, please do it in my Portuguese discussion page and If you do not speak Portuguese... at least try. We try :) This experience was illuminating and helped me a lot to understand the controversy, the lobby and the motivations behind the different Wiki projects. "another brick on the wall" i would say ...
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