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The Wikia Welcome tool is an automatic process that helps wiki admins to welcome new editors. The goal is to show new contributors that there's a community on the wiki -- and to help connect them to admins, so they know where to go if they have questions.

When a contributor makes their first edit, the Wikia Welcome tool leaves a talk page message for them, and creates a user page.

When a contributor makes their first edit, the Wikia Welcome tool leaves a talk page message for them and creates a user page.

The talk page message is signed by the [[Special:Listusers/sysop|admin]] (or Wikia staff member) who's edited the wiki most recently, to ~~help~~ the contributor ~~find~~ someone ~~who's available~~ to talk to ~~them~~ if ~~they need it~~.

The talk page message is signed by the [[Special:Listusers/sysop|admin]] (or Wikia staff member) who edited the wiki most recently, to guide the contributor to someone to talk to if needed.

Admins on this wiki can customize this in various ways, by editing the following pages:

* MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user is the welcome message that's left for logged-in contributors.

* MediaWiki:Welcome-message-anon is the welcome message that's left for anonymous contributors.

* MediaWiki:Welcome-user-page is the user page that's created for logged-in contributors.

* MediaWiki:Welcome-user -- You can use this page to change the signature that's left in the welcome message, or to turn the feature off. There are three settings for this page:

**@latest -- This is the default setting. This means that the message will be signed by the latest admin to make an edit on the wiki.

**Username -- If you replace @latest with a contributor's username, then all of the messages will be signed by that contributor.

**@disabled -- This turns the feature off, so nobody gets a welcome message. If you turn it off, you can turn it back on again by replacing this with @latest or a username.

* MediaWiki:Welcome-message-log is the edit summary that the tool uses when it is leaving messages.

If you have any questions about the Wikia Welcome tool, please write a [[Special:Contact|Wikia staff member]].

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 The Wikia Welcome tool is an automatic process that helps wiki admins to welcome new editors. The goal is to show new contributors that there's a community on the wiki -- and to help connect them to admins, so they know where to go if they have questions.
-When a contributor makes their first edit, the Wikia Welcome tool leaves a talk page message for them, and creates a user page.
+When a contributor makes their first edit, the Wikia Welcome tool leaves a talk page message for them and creates a user page.
-The talk page message is signed by the [[Special:Listusers/sysop|admin]] (or Wikia staff member) who's edited the wiki most recently, to help the contributor find someone who's available to talk to them if they need it.
+The talk page message is signed by the [[Special:Listusers/sysop|admin]] (or Wikia staff member) who edited the wiki most recently, to guide the contributor to someone to talk to if needed.
 Admins on this wiki can customize this in various ways, by editing the following pages:
 * MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user is the welcome message that's left for logged-in contributors.
 * MediaWiki:Welcome-message-anon is the welcome message that's left for anonymous contributors.
 * MediaWiki:Welcome-user-page is the user page that's created for logged-in contributors.
 * MediaWiki:Welcome-user -- You can use this page to change the signature that's left in the welcome message, or to turn the feature off. There are three settings for this page:
 **@latest -- This is the default setting. This means that the message will be signed by the latest admin to make an edit on the wiki.
 **Username -- If you replace @latest with a contributor's username, then all of the messages will be signed by that contributor.
 **@disabled -- This turns the feature off, so nobody gets a welcome message. If you turn it off, you can turn it back on again by replacing this with @latest or a username.
+* MediaWiki:Welcome-message-log is the edit summary that the tool uses when it is leaving messages.
 If you have any questions about the Wikia Welcome tool, please write a [[Special:Contact|Wikia staff member]].