Help:Welcoming users

Whenever someone joins the wiki, it is always friendly to welcome the user and let them know that their contributions are valued here. For users, this is done by adding {{Welcome}} on to their talk page, and for IP addresses, this is done by adding {{WelcomeIP}} on their talk page.

MediaWiki messages

There are MediaWiki messages that control the way that new users are welcomed:

• MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user is the welcome message that's left for logged in contributors.
• MediaWiki:Welcome-message-anon is the welcome message that's left for anonymous contributors.
• MediaWiki:Welcome-user-page is the user page that's created for logged in contributors.
• MediaWiki:Welcome-user -- You can use this page to change the signature that's left in the welcome message, or to turn the feature off. There are three settings for this page:
  • @latest -- This is the default setting. This means that the message will be signed by the latest admin to make an edit on the wiki.
  • Username -- If you replace @latest with a contributor's username, then all of the messages will be signed by that contributor.
  • @disabled -- This turns the feature off, so nobody gets a welcome message. If you turn it off, you can turn it back on again by replacing this with @latest or a username.