This is a list of templates available for greeting new users. Anyone may use these templates for greeting a new user on their Talk page. For a display of the various basic designs, see Wikipedia:Welcome template table.
Use these for a user who recently registered a username. All of the templates below can be customized with an additional message, a picture of a plate of cookies, a colored border, icons, or a different opening text.
All of these encourage creating an account, unless otherwise noted.
For any anon:
For those who have helped in specific areas:
For users who have:
Use one of these to greet new users interested in a particular topic:
Used for a user who is creating or editing articles in poor English, and whose native language is known or can be guessed with reasonable confidence. (If the user has been writing articles in another language, one of the templates on Category:Non-English user warning templates should be used instead.)
Use this template to welcome the user, substituting in the language code, such as 'fr' for French, or 'de' for German:
The welcome will be issued in two languages: English, and the user's language, if the lang code corresponds to any of the following: Albanian, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.
If the lang code corresponds to a language not shown above, the welcome message is issued in English only. Text for any language with a Wikipedia project may be easily added to a subpage, and the template will pick it up automatically; see the /doc page for instructions.
{{subst:User:Arknascar44/Welcome|msg=message|sig=~~~~}}
* {{subst:User:Brainy J/Welcome|your username||additional message|~~~~}}
{{subst:User:Bwilkins/welcomecivil|other username}}
{{subst:User:TomasBat/Welcome|your username|comment (if any)}}
Not strictly a "new user" welcome (more like, a "don't go" template, or "welcome to independent editing"), retention templates are geared towards editor retention, that is, keeping editors active at Wikipedia who might otherwise leave.
This is a list of templates available for greeting new users. Anyone may use these templates for greeting a new user on their Talk page. For a display of the various basic designs, see Wikipedia:Welcome template table.
Use these for a user who recently registered a username. All of the templates below can be customized with an additional message, a picture of a plate of cookies, a colored border, icons, or a different opening text.
All of these encourage creating an account, unless otherwise noted.
For any anon:
For those who have helped in specific areas:
For users who have:
Use one of these to greet new users interested in a particular topic:
Used for a user who is creating or editing articles in poor English, and whose native language is known or can be guessed with reasonable confidence. (If the user has been writing articles in another language, one of the templates on Category:Non-English user warning templates should be used instead.)
Use this template to welcome the user, substituting in the language code, such as 'fr' for French, or 'de' for German:
The welcome will be issued in two languages: English, and the user's language, if the lang code corresponds to any of the following: Albanian, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.
If the lang code corresponds to a language not shown above, the welcome message is issued in English only. Text for any language with a Wikipedia project may be easily added to a subpage, and the template will pick it up automatically; see the /doc page for instructions.
{{subst:User:Arknascar44/Welcome|msg=message|sig=~~~~}}
* {{subst:User:Brainy J/Welcome|your username||additional message|~~~~}}
{{subst:User:Bwilkins/welcomecivil|other username}}
{{subst:User:TomasBat/Welcome|your username|comment (if any)}}
Not strictly a "new user" welcome (more like, a "don't go" template, or "welcome to independent editing"), retention templates are geared towards editor retention, that is, keeping editors active at Wikipedia who might otherwise leave.