https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52373
--- Comment #23 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #20) > I think someone may have suggested this on the EE list. What about showing > the > welcomecreation message if GettingStarted is not installed and there is a > local > override of MediaWik:Welcomecreation-msg? > > We might also be able to assist with sharing best practices with wikis that > haven't done much work here. For documentation, here's what Benoit and I said on the EE list about this: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-September/000657.html To explain it my thinking there some more... French Wikipedia doesn't have GettingStarted, but is using Welcomecreation-msg to get users to introduce themselves and their interests to the community. That's highly useful, and isn't forcing users through a whole page just to confirm that they registered. GettingStarted is not the only possible positive experience for a new user post-signup, particularly on a community that isn't Wikipedia (Wiktionary, Commons, and other sister projects probably need something quite different). I do hope to launch GettingStarted on more non-English Wikipedias over the next month or so, but it's not a solution for all wikis by a long shot. What I am concerned about is that, whatever we present to new users immediately after registration, that it be a reasonably decent design and that it encourages them to get engaged with the wiki. Passive documentation or landing pages with no substantive calls to action are a very poor user experience, particularly for people who realize they did sign up and who are ready to get started with contributing. I think we need to have a high standard for anything we intend to more or less permanently throw at all users after signup. The default MediaWiki:Welcomecreation-msg isn't up to snuff in any language IMO, but a landing page like what French Wikipedians have made is, even if it's technically not really what that MediaWiki message is for. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
