On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:13 PM, John Beckett <johnb.beck...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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). >
I have some thoughts. My first thought was, "why did it automatiacally use my name for the welcome post"? I'm ok with that, though you're a bit more active than I am, John. I wouldn't be adverse to including a few regulars on the welcome message though. It looks like we need to have SOMEONE sign the message, so the default @latest should work for that, but we could link to an "active contributors" page or something in the text. Secondly, I like the idea in general. We pretty much do it anyway, with our templated welcome text. I think we should automatically apply this existing text to any new _registered_ users. I do think, however, that creating user pages for annonymous users is just plain stupid. We should disable this particular message. > Details (also two other new "features"): > http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:New_features_coming_on_Wednesday I also think we should disable the "category select", at least until we can revamp our tip templates. Otherwise it will get confusing where to put the categories. _______________________________________________ Vim-l mailing list Vim-l@wikia.com http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/vim-l
