User:Rich Farmbrough/Welcome-t
Welcome!

Hello, Rich Farmbrough, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- Tutorial
- How to edit a page and How to develop articles
- How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
- Simplified Manual of Style
- Wikipedia Teahouse (a user-friendly help forum)
- The Wikipedia Adventure (a fun game-like tour to help get you oriented within Wikipedia)
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}}
before the question. Enjoy editing! ~~~
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Usage
[edit]Add {{subst:Welcome}}
~~~~
to the user's talk page. It is suggested that you watch the talk page in case the user replies there.
Parameters:
|heading=no
– Suppress the automatic heading:{{subst:Welcome|heading=no}}
|headtext=Heading text
– Change the contents of the heading:{{subst:Welcome|headtext=Greetings!}}
|border=Color
– Adds a border in the specified color, along with a light shadow.|borderradius=
can optionally be used to create rounded corners:{{subst:Welcome|border=DarkViolet|borderradius=15px}}
|newuser=y
– alternate text for users with zero contributions (such as accounts just made via ACC; you can also use{{subst:Welcome-newuser}}
, which includes your signature). Equivalent to setting|art=newuser
.|image=File:Filename.png
– Adds an image to the message (no brackets needed).|imagecaption=
can optionally be used to specify the caption:{{subst:Welcome|image=File:Chocolate chip cookies.jpg|imagecaption=Here, enjoy some cookies!}}
. If you want to get really fancy, you can specify the image size or link here like this:{{subst:Welcome|imagecaption=400px{{!}}link{{=}}[[Article]]{{!}}Caption}}
.|art=Article name
– Article to which the user contributed positively (no brackets needed):{{subst:Welcome|art=Foobar}}
.- This can be set to
newuser
to produce the same text as setting|newuser=y
when using Twinkle:{{subst:Welcome|art=newuser}}
- This can be set to
|customstart=
– Adds a custom message at the end of the first paragraph, replacing "I hope you like it here and decide to stay."|customend=
– Adds a custom ending to replace "Happy editing!"
Shortcut: {{subst:Wel}}
~~~~
For anonymous editors
[edit]Use {{subst:Welcome-anon}}
or {{subst:Thanks}}
for anonymous (IP) editors.
Wrapper
[edit]{{subst:Welcome-autosign}}
(or {{subst:wela}}
) invokes this template but includes your signature.
TemplateData
[edit]The standard template to welcome new editors.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
heading | heading | Suppresses the automatic heading | Unknown | optional |
Heading text | headtext | Changes the contents of the heading
| String | optional |
border | border | Adds a border around the message in a specified color or hex triplet
| String | optional |
Border radius | borderradius | Specifies the rounding of the border
| Unknown | optional |
image | image | Adds an image to go with the welcome (no need for brackets)
| File | optional |
Image caption | imagecaption | Specifies a caption to go with the image
| String | optional |
New user | newuser | Uses alternate text not linking to the editor's contributions
| Boolean | optional |
Article | art article | Mentions and links to an article the editor has contributed to | Page name | suggested |
Custom start | customstart | Adds a custom message at the end of the first paragraph
| String | suggested |
Custom end | customend | Adds a custom ending to the message
| String | suggested |