Wow, I've caused a neat TOC bug. { MB | マイカル } 20:50, Aug 28, 2003 (UTC)
I don't see what good it does to include a to-do list in a welcome message. Users should come to Wikipedia, learn about it at their own page, and edit articles on subjects that they're familiar with. Giving a first-time user a list of things to do seems overbearing and might confuse some newbies by making them think that they're "required" as a Wikipedian to work on assigned tasks. I say that Opentasks be deleted from the Standard user greeting. -- Alex S 23:29, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Shouldn't pages be self-explanatory? After all, even if at the beginning someone knew that this page is linked to from a page that gives the purpose of this page, you can't prevent others from linking to this page, and therefore you can't be sure what the context is. This is a page with 'Stnadard user greetings.' Are these posted to user pages? -- Voodoo 00:58, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)
till we *) asked on the pump: should "we have Wikipedia:User page in our standard newbie welcome message?".
Shouldn't this page be Wikipedia:Sample user greetings, not Standard user greeting; because it doesn't give, nor should there be, a one-size-fits-all "standard" message. TPK 13:26, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
If someone wants to take a look, I'm developing some messages at User:Hypernovean/Welcome messages. Any comments are appreciated. TPK 04:05, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I created a Welcome template {{welcome}} at Template:Welcome. Hope this is useful. Please feel free to modify the template as needed. Advantage: Easy to type. Disadvantage: does not have user name, link to talk page of writer, cannot be quickly modified to e.g. mention the latest contribution. The user my also be a bit confused when he clicks the edit link. Comments and changes are welcome -- Chris 73 | Talk 04:47, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
From my own experience with newbies I strongly recommend making
Remember to use the [[Wikipedia:Show preview|]] button before you save.
an integral part of any welcome. Or some other phrase to express even more clearly that if they want just to see how it looks, they needn't save, and shouldn't save every few minutes anyway. -- Malyctenar 09:53, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I almost never lift a finger to welcome new users, but as gratuitous advice to those kind souls who do: The page Wikipedia:Glossary still has some holes, but I think it could help many newcomers cope with the Wikijargon they encounter. JamesMLane 23:54, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
It is not good to present WP policies in a welcome, and also vitiate one of them - "your unique slant on "neutrality"" - my addition to the first paragrapah bears upon that, I suggest making it explicit is not just instruction creep. Midgley 15:16, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
استعادة جميع البرامج الأساسية الاقتراضية مجانا بدون مقابل مالي تثبيت على جهاز الهاتف الذكي مجانا سعيد مسعود احمد ( talk) 03:08, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
I created a table with the welcome templates and a "preview" at Wikipedia:Welcome template table. If you think your welcome is unusual enough to merit inclusion, go ahead and add it to the table. TheJabberwock 00:22, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Also, my welcome template, which is more customizable and personalized than the standard templates, is now ready for use. See User:Iamthejabberwock/Welcome if you're interested. TheJabberwock 03:21, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I use this page for a welcome template. I've had lots of mistaken edits to this page by way of people clicking on the edit button on another persons page trying to add another heading underneath it. Unfortunately, the edit button takes them to my welcome page. Is there any way to either make this edit button conform to each users talk page, or even remove it totally? Jo e I 19:16, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
What about putting a small video in Welcome notes to teach newcomers that how they can follow articles, and add articles to their watchlist. That helps a lot as learning this function may be take time for new users because some users even don't know such things is available in Wiki. KhabarNegar ( talk) 08:55, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I sometimes use twinkle to welcome new users. Is there any way to add custom welcome messages through this? For instance, there is currently a WikiProject welcome list on twinkle, but I'd like to add {{ Cue sports welcome}} to this list. Is this possible? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 16:00, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
Wow, I've caused a neat TOC bug. { MB | マイカル } 20:50, Aug 28, 2003 (UTC)
I don't see what good it does to include a to-do list in a welcome message. Users should come to Wikipedia, learn about it at their own page, and edit articles on subjects that they're familiar with. Giving a first-time user a list of things to do seems overbearing and might confuse some newbies by making them think that they're "required" as a Wikipedian to work on assigned tasks. I say that Opentasks be deleted from the Standard user greeting. -- Alex S 23:29, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Shouldn't pages be self-explanatory? After all, even if at the beginning someone knew that this page is linked to from a page that gives the purpose of this page, you can't prevent others from linking to this page, and therefore you can't be sure what the context is. This is a page with 'Stnadard user greetings.' Are these posted to user pages? -- Voodoo 00:58, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)
till we *) asked on the pump: should "we have Wikipedia:User page in our standard newbie welcome message?".
Shouldn't this page be Wikipedia:Sample user greetings, not Standard user greeting; because it doesn't give, nor should there be, a one-size-fits-all "standard" message. TPK 13:26, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
If someone wants to take a look, I'm developing some messages at User:Hypernovean/Welcome messages. Any comments are appreciated. TPK 04:05, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I created a Welcome template {{welcome}} at Template:Welcome. Hope this is useful. Please feel free to modify the template as needed. Advantage: Easy to type. Disadvantage: does not have user name, link to talk page of writer, cannot be quickly modified to e.g. mention the latest contribution. The user my also be a bit confused when he clicks the edit link. Comments and changes are welcome -- Chris 73 | Talk 04:47, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
From my own experience with newbies I strongly recommend making
Remember to use the [[Wikipedia:Show preview|]] button before you save.
an integral part of any welcome. Or some other phrase to express even more clearly that if they want just to see how it looks, they needn't save, and shouldn't save every few minutes anyway. -- Malyctenar 09:53, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I almost never lift a finger to welcome new users, but as gratuitous advice to those kind souls who do: The page Wikipedia:Glossary still has some holes, but I think it could help many newcomers cope with the Wikijargon they encounter. JamesMLane 23:54, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
It is not good to present WP policies in a welcome, and also vitiate one of them - "your unique slant on "neutrality"" - my addition to the first paragrapah bears upon that, I suggest making it explicit is not just instruction creep. Midgley 15:16, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
استعادة جميع البرامج الأساسية الاقتراضية مجانا بدون مقابل مالي تثبيت على جهاز الهاتف الذكي مجانا سعيد مسعود احمد ( talk) 03:08, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
I created a table with the welcome templates and a "preview" at Wikipedia:Welcome template table. If you think your welcome is unusual enough to merit inclusion, go ahead and add it to the table. TheJabberwock 00:22, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Also, my welcome template, which is more customizable and personalized than the standard templates, is now ready for use. See User:Iamthejabberwock/Welcome if you're interested. TheJabberwock 03:21, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I use this page for a welcome template. I've had lots of mistaken edits to this page by way of people clicking on the edit button on another persons page trying to add another heading underneath it. Unfortunately, the edit button takes them to my welcome page. Is there any way to either make this edit button conform to each users talk page, or even remove it totally? Jo e I 19:16, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
What about putting a small video in Welcome notes to teach newcomers that how they can follow articles, and add articles to their watchlist. That helps a lot as learning this function may be take time for new users because some users even don't know such things is available in Wiki. KhabarNegar ( talk) 08:55, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I sometimes use twinkle to welcome new users. Is there any way to add custom welcome messages through this? For instance, there is currently a WikiProject welcome list on twinkle, but I'd like to add {{ Cue sports welcome}} to this list. Is this possible? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 16:00, 17 December 2019 (UTC)