Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates

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Shortcuts

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
.

General

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.

standard buttons + text

  • {{subst:Welcome}} → standard 3-button template: Learn, Get Help, Volunteer; manual signing required.
  • {{
    subst:Wela
    }} )

text only

text + image

  • {{subst:Welcome cookie}} ~~~~ → regular welcome with a plate of cookies (optional arg: 'notalk'); manual signing required.
    • {{
      subst:Welcome-personal
      }} ~~~~ → redirect; manual signing required.
  • {{subst:Welcome-back}} ~~~~ → similar to Welcome cookie, but intended for someone who is back after not editing for some time
  • {{subst:Welcome kitten}} → regular, with kitten; with autosign.
  • {{subst:Welcome-citation}} ~~~~ → regular, encourages citing sources; manual signing required.
  • {{
    service award
    ; manual signing required.
  • {{subst:Welcome-t}} ~~~~ → links to Wikipedia:Teahouse, with cup of tea image; manual signing required.
  • {{subst:W-FAQ}} → FAQ for newcomers, with fruit bowl image; with autosign.
  • {{
    a growth team feature
    ) to give to their mentees. Plate of cookies images.

short

  • {{subst:W-short}} → concise; won't overwhelm; with autosign.
  • {{
    greetings page
    ; with autosign.

graphical

  • {{subst:W-graphical}} → graphical menu format, similar to Template:WelcomeMenu, to ease transition from the graphic-heavy web; with autosign.
    • {{subst:W-graphic}} → similar, with more powerful colours and changes in text; with autosign.
  • {{
    W-screen
    }}; with autosign.
  • {{subst:Welcomeg}} → Standard, with a host of links — includes auto-sig by welcomer; with autosign.
  • {{subst:W-all}} → short—only 14 or 15 lines—with automatic heading and autosign. Very warm and does not overwhelm.
  • {{subst:Welcome to Wikipedia}} → tabular with icons: 10 policy links, 10 do's/don'ts, 8 To-do links; text top & bottom; with autosign.
    • {{
      Greet
      }}.
  • {{subst:WelcomeVisual}} → links to policies, guidelines, and visually helpful information; with autosign.
  • {{subst:Welcome emoji}} → quite colourful with emoji next to policy links, visually appealing; manual signing required.
  • {{subst:Welcome user column}} → loosely based on the French welcome template Modèle:Bienvenue nouveau; manual signing required.
  • {{subst:Welcoming}} → simple, with tips and links; with autosign.

Specialized

  • {{subst:Welcome-vandalism-fighter}} → for users who have helped fight vandalism in their first contribution(s).
  • {{subst:Welcome-belated}} → for users who have been editing for a while but never received a standardized welcome message. Includes plate of cookies image; includes auto-sig.
  • {{subst:First article|article}} → for new users whose first article has been deleted or Afd'd; with autosign.
  • {{
    userfied
    .
  • {{subst:welcometest}} ~~~~ → first edit appears to be a test edit.
  • {{subst:Welcome-suboptimal}} → for users whose edits were intended to be constructive, but had to be reverted for some reason; with autosign.
  • {{subst:Welcome-unconstructive}} → for users who have vandalized a page or had their first edits reverted as unconstructive; with autosign.
  • {{subst:Welcome0}} → for new users who have created their user page, but have not yet contributed elsewhere.
  • {{
    WP:NPOV
    .
  • {{subst:Welcomespam}} ~~~~ → with additional discussion of anti-spamming policies, use when a new user's initial contributions seem to consist solely of spamming external links.
  • {{
    copyright policies
    , use when a new user's initial contributions seem to consist solely of inserting a block of copyrighted text.
  • {{subst:Welcomeauto}} ~~~~ → for users who have created an autobiography.
  • {{
    conflict of interest
    .
  • {{
    BLP
  • {{subst:Welcomeunsourced}} ~~~~ → for users who have made edits adding unreferenced information to articles.
  • {{subst:Welcome non-latin}} ~~~~ → similar to {{subst:welcome-retro}}, with a section for users with a non-Latin alphabet username, and 25 links to translated versions of this message.
  • {{subst:Welcomelaws}} ~~~~ → A welcome message with a focus on following Wikipedia rules as well as real-world laws; manual signing required.
  • {{subst:Welcome-ql}} ~~~~ → Welcome message contains decent number of links (WIP, but functional and serves its purposes)
  • {{subst:Mentor welcome}} ~~~~ Welcome template for mentors in the Growth Team to give to their mentees

Students and teachers

Further information: Wikipedia:Education program and Category:Wikiedu.org course templates
See also: WP:Education program/Students, WP:Student assignments, and WP:Education program/Educators
  • {{subst:Welcome student|article}} ~~~~ → for editors who seem to be students editing Wikipedia as part of their course assignment
  • {{subst:Welcome teacher|article}} ~~~~ → for editors who seem to be course instructors having their students edit Wikipedia as part of some assignment
  • {{subst:First school article|Article}} ~~~~ → problematic new school article for editors who seem to be students.

Unregistered users

All of these encourage

creating an account
, unless otherwise noted.

Legend: Q = includes a link to
Helpme}}; C = WP:Task Center
.

Neutral or positive

For any anon:

short
  • {{
    subst:W-short-ip
    }} → concise; won't overwhelm

For those who have helped in specific areas:

Improvement needed or problematic

For users who have:

Topic-specific

Use one of these to greet new users interested in a particular topic:

Countries and regions

Topics

Non-English

Shortcut

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.

User-hosted

Σ

2

4

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A

B

  • {{
    Ursprache
  • {{subst:User:Booksworm/welcomemain}} The Main Page of all of Booksworm's welcome messages. They are, however, very graphic and work best on Mozilla Firefox
  • {{subst:User:Bottesini/welcome}}
  • {{subst:User:Brainy J/Welcome}} Mostly copied from Coffee's but has a rose in a vase instead of cookies. Use * {{subst:User:Brainy J/Welcome|your username||additional message|~~~~}}
  • {{subst:User:Brainy J/Good1stArticle}} For welcoming a new user who created a good page.
  • {{
    User:Bwilkins/welcomecivil
    }} For welcoming a user who became involved in an uncivil discussion early in their "career". You may add the username of the editor who was attacked if desired. Based on Welcomenpov and includes a heading. {{subst:User:Bwilkins/welcomecivil|other username}}

C

D

E

F

  • {{
    Template:welcome-personal
    ; includes fruit and added links
  • {{subst:User:FiendYT/Welcome}} Similar to cookies plate version except few changes

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

  • {{
    WP:YOUNG
    . Requires substituting but should automatically append your signature.

O

P

  • {{subst:User:Piotrus/w}} this suggests a WikiProject that the new user may want to join; the full syntax is {{subst:User:Piotrus/w|WikiProjectKeyWord}}, where the WikiProjectKeyWord is what follows the Wikipedia:Wikiproject, so for example Sociology of United States

Q

R

S

T

U

W

X

Y

Z

Editor retention

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.

See also

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