Any thoughts on the new auto-welcome system Wikia has introduced? We can configure the text it uses, and we can disable it (I'm a bit suspicious of anything cutsey, and my inclination is to disable it, but maybe I'm too curmudgeonly).
One minute after a new user (registered or just an IP address) edits a page, their user page is automatically created (if a registered user), and a message is put on their talk page. Example: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:83.83.187.191 These four settings configure how it works: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcome-message-anon http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcome-user-page http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcome-user Welcome-message-user: Text put on new user's Talk page. Welcome-message-anon: Same, for IP addresses (not registered). Welcome-user-page: Text put on new user's User page. Welcome-user: configuration; one of following: "@latest" = message signed by admin who did most-recent edit Username = message signed by this user "@disabled" = no welcome messages Details (also two other new "features"): http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:New_features_coming_on_Wednesday John _______________________________________________ Vim-l mailing list Vim-l@wikia.com http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/vim-l
