Auto-Welcome Community Task

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To use resources more efficiently and yet increase engagement possibilities, newly-created accounts have message placed on their talk page automatically, signed by a welcomer that is online at the moment, or a generic message if no welcomers are online.

edit Next Actions

  • Tagging the welcomers (making sure they know what this is all about) with Category:Initial Welcomer
  • Write MediaWiki:InitialPersonalTalkPage as the generic message that will only be used when none of the welcomers is online
  • Having each welcomer's standard welcome live at User:Username/Welcome (additonal welcomes at User:Username/Welcome2 and so on optional) - we are waiting for dev to tell us how to format these messages, for signatures, pagename variables, etc

edit Discussion

Because each person is special, maybe make a variable which takes which page the user has been working on most (except his own userpage, talkpages, etc)?

So you can say "I've seen you've been working quite a bit on %mostworkedonpage%.".

Also it would be great to allow if statements, to check if the user has even worked on a page at all, or if the user specified a RealName, so you can say "I see you've added your RealName!".

--VartanSimoniantalkcontribsemail 15:53, 29 February 2008 (PST)

The bot will do this welcome at the instant a new account is created, so there will be no pages edited by this person yet. As for Name, we're also working on changing the signup screen so we'll only have a name, or perhaps a first name, last name and not a username. The Real Name field we currently have has no effect on the site. It's a bummer. TedErnst (talk) 16:23, 29 February 2008 (PST)