This is a documentation subpage for Template:W-graphical. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Usage

• To greet an editor with this template just as it appears above (your signature will automatically replace the ~~~~), place the following wikicode on the editor's talk page:

{{
subst:W-graphical}}

• To add a message in an additional paragraph before the last sentence, use:

{{
subst:W-graphical|message}}

Replace message with your desired message. It will be inserted into the greeting before "Happy editing!"

• To add a message at the end of the second paragraph, usually for welcomes that point out problems, use:

{{
subst:W-graphical||message}}

An example can be found at {{ w-graphical-anon}}, which is a wrapper for this template that utilizes this parameter.

• To add a (level-2) heading above the greeting, use:

{{
subst:W-graphical|heading=heading text}}

The heading will be what is typed in after "heading=".

• To add an article credit to the "Thank you" sentence:

{{
subst:W-graphical|article=article title}}

Sentence will read: "Thank you for your contributions to article title and to this free encyclopedia."

• To change the color of the entire message, use:

{{
subst:W-graphical|color=color}}

Replace color with one of the following choices (the default is navy blue and orange, shown above):

1. cyan
2. pink

• The above options can be combined:

{{
subst:W-graphical|Wikipedia is amazing.|heading=Welcome to Wikipedia|article=Mitochondrion}}

See also

• Wikipedia:Welcoming committee