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| <h2 style="overflow:auto"> Welcome to Wikia! </h2>
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| If you got a welcome from this account, then you're a new editor on this wiki. Hi!
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| 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.
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| For general Wikia help, please visit the [[w:c:help|Wikia Help]] and [[Special:Contact|contact staff]] if you have questions.
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| ==Welcome tool information and help==
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| 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.
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| 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!
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| 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.
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| The welcome tool can be customized using the following settings.
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| ;[[MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user|<span style="color:black; background:white;">MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user</span>]]: welcome message for logged-in contributors.
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| ;[[MediaWiki:Welcome-message-anon|<span style="color:black; background:white;">MediaWiki:Welcome-message-anonr</span>]]: welcome message for unregistered contributors.
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| ;[[MediaWiki:Welcome-user-page|<span style="color:black; background:white;">MediaWiki:Welcome-user-page</span>]]: user page for logged-in contributors.
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| ;[[MediaWiki:Welcome-message-log|<span style="color:black; background:white;">MediaWiki:Welcome-message-log</span>]]: edit summary used when leaving messages.
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| ; [[MediaWiki:Welcome-user|<span style="color:black; background:white;">MediaWiki:Welcome-user</span>]]: used to disable the feature and change who leaves the message.
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| : Add @latest for the message to be signed by the most recently active admin.
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| : Add a specific username (not signature) for all welcomes to be left by a specific person.
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| : 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.
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| : Add @disabled to turn off the entire feature.
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| ;[[MediaWiki:Welcome-enabled|<span style="color:black; background:white;">MediaWiki:Welcome-enabled</span>]]: control which parts of the feature are in use.
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| :"page-user message-anon message-user" enables everything.
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| :Taking out "page-user" will stop the welcome tool from creating user pages.
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| :Taking out "message-anon" will stop the tool from leaving welcome messages for unregistered user.
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| :Taking out "message-user" will stop the tool from leaving welcome messages for logged-in contributors.
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| ;The welcome messages have four special variables:
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| :$1 is the page the new editor edited or created
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| :$2 is a link to the talk page of the person leaving the welcome
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| :$3 is the signature
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| :$4 is the name of the person being welcomed
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| ;Controlling the bot:
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| :To hide the welcome edits from your wiki's recent changes, [[special:contact|contact us]] to flag User:Wikia as a bot.
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| :You can disable the welcome messages by blocking User:Wikia. An alternative way of doing this is to add @disabled to [[MediaWiki:Welcome-user]].
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| If you have any questions about the Wikia Welcome tool, please [[Special:Contact|contact Wikia staff]].
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