Przykuta, 11/10/2010 08:37: > BTW - I've seen, that in some (smaller) Wikipedias newbies are welcome by > bots. We try welcome only users with any activity and newbies are welcome by > [[MediaWiki:Welcomecreation]] page with links to help pages.
[[MediaWiki:Welcomecreation]] is almost useless, IMHO: you can't read it again after account creation. Welcome on talk page is useful because the user can read hints when he wants (I appreciated this a lot when I was a newbie) and because it offers help from another user (simplest form of coaching/mentoring). Bots are ok, even if someone is worried about disk space (when substituting) or job queue (when leaving a template). Welcoming inactive users may be useful because 1) lots of users get lost and don't edit even if they would to, and some hint may encourage them, 2) usually bots won't re-check activity of older accounts and you may end up with lots of not welcomed users. Default configuration of welcome.py is to welcome every non-automatically created (SUL) account, if I remember correctly. Recently some wikis have started to use http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NewUserMessage Nemo _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
