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<h2 style="overflow:auto"> Welcome to Wikia! </h2>
==Welcome to Wikia!==


If you got a welcome from this account, then you're a new editor on this wiki. Hi!  
If you got a welcome from this account, then you're new on this wiki. Hi!  


If you're looking for assistance, you can leave a message for the person that signed the welcome message. Follow the link to their talk page, and then edit the page to write your message.  
If you're looking for assistance, you can leave a message for the person who signed the welcome message. Follow the link to their talk page, and then hit "edit this page" to write your message.  


For general Wikia help, please visit the [[w:c:help|Wikia Help]] and [[Special:Contact|contact staff]] if you have questions.  
You can also write to [mailto:community@wikia.com community@wikia.com] for general Wikia help.


==Welcome tool information and help==
==Information for admins==


The Wikia Welcome tool helps the community to welcome new editors. It is important to welcome new contributors so that they can see that there's a community on the wiki -- and to give them a point of contact so they know where to go if they have questions.  
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. Welcome messages are not given to people with special flags, includes admins, staff members and bots. This prevents getting a welcome from yourself!
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]], helper, or staff member that edited the wiki most recently, to guide the contributor to someone to help them if needed.  
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 welcome tool can be customized using the following settings.
Admins on this wiki can customize this in various ways, by editing the following pages:


;[[MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user|<span style="color:black; background:white;">MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user</span>]]: welcome message for logged-in contributors.
* MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user is the welcome message that's left for logged-in contributors.  
;[[MediaWiki:Welcome-message-anon|<span style="color:black; background:white;">MediaWiki:Welcome-message-anonr</span>]]: welcome message for unregistered contributors.
;[[MediaWiki:Welcome-user-page|<span style="color:black; background:white;">MediaWiki:Welcome-user-page</span>]]: user page for logged-in contributors.
;[[MediaWiki:Welcome-message-log|<span style="color:black; background:white;">MediaWiki:Welcome-message-log</span>]]: edit summary used when leaving messages.
; [[MediaWiki:Welcome-user|<span style="color:black; background:white;">MediaWiki:Welcome-user</span>]]: used to disable the feature and change who leaves the message.
: Add @latest for the message to be signed by the most recently active admin.
: Add a specific username (not signature) for all welcomes to be left by a specific person.
: Add @sysop to always sign the message as an admin and not as a staff member or helper, even if the staff member or helper is the most recent contributor.
: Add @disabled to turn off the entire feature.
;[[MediaWiki:Welcome-enabled|<span style="color:black; background:white;">MediaWiki:Welcome-enabled</span>]]: control which parts of the feature are in use.
:"page-user message-anon message-user" enables everything.
:Taking out "page-user" will stop the welcome tool from creating user pages.
:Taking out "message-anon" will stop the tool from leaving welcome messages for unregistered user.
:Taking out "message-user" will stop the tool from leaving welcome messages for logged-in contributors.  


;The welcome messages have four special variables:
* MediaWiki:Welcome-message-anon is the welcome message that's left for anonymous contributors.
:$1 is the page the new editor edited or created
:$2 is a link to the talk page of the person leaving the welcome
:$3 is the signature
:$4 is the name of the person being welcomed


;Controlling the bot:
* MediaWiki:Welcome-user-page is the user page that's created for logged-in contributors.
:To hide the welcome edits from your wiki's recent changes, [[special:contact|contact us]] to flag User:Wikia as a bot.
:You can disable the welcome messages by blocking User:Wikia. An alternative way of doing this is to add @disabled to [[MediaWiki:Welcome-user]].


If you have any questions about the Wikia Welcome tool, please [[Special:Contact|contact Wikia staff]].
* 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.
 
If you have any questions about the Wikia Welcome tool, please write to [mailto:community@wikia.com community@wikia.com].

Latest revision as of 01:27, 5 August 2015

http://images.wikia.com/central/images/c/ca/Wikiawelcomelogo.png

Welcome to Wikia!

If you got a welcome from this account, then you're new on this wiki. Hi!

If you're looking for assistance, you can leave a message for the person who signed the welcome message. Follow the link to their talk page, and then hit "edit this page" to write your message.

You can also write to community@wikia.com for general Wikia help.

Information for admins

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.

The talk page message is signed by the 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.

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.

If you have any questions about the Wikia Welcome tool, please write to community@wikia.com.