This is a list of templates available for greeting new users. Anyone may use these templates for greeting a new user on their Talk page. For a display of the various basic designs, see
Wikipedia:Welcome template table
.
Use these for a user who recently registered a username. All of the templates below can be customized with an additional message, a picture of a plate of cookies, a colored border, icons, or a different opening text.
standard buttons + text
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text only
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text + image
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short
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graphical
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- {{
subst:W-graphical
}} → graphical menu format, similar to
Template:WelcomeMenu
, to ease transition from the graphic-heavy web; with autosign.
- {{
subst:W-graphic
}} → similar, with more powerful colours and changes in text; with autosign.
- {{
subst:Welcome screen
}} → 11 bullets in 3 sections; blue header bar; rounded rectangular border; alias:
{{
W-screen
}}
; with autosign.
- {{
subst:Welcomeg
}} → Standard, with a host of links ? includes auto-sig by welcomer; with autosign.
- {{
subst:W-all
}} → short?only 14 or 15 lines?with automatic heading and autosign. Very warm and does not overwhelm.
- {{subst:
Welcome to Wikipedia
}} → tabular with icons: 10 policy links, 10 do's/don'ts, 8 To-do links; text top & bottom; with autosign.
- {{
subst:WelcomeVisual
}} → links to policies, guidelines, and visually helpful information; with autosign.
- {{
subst:Welcome emoji
}} → quite colourful with emoji next to policy links, visually appealing; manual signing required.
- {{
subst:Welcome user column
}} → loosely based on the French welcome template
Modele:Bienvenue nouveau
; manual signing required.
- {{
subst:Welcoming
}} → simple, with tips and links; with autosign.
- {{
subst:Welcome-vandalism-fighter
}} → for users who have helped fight vandalism in their first contribution(s).
- {{
subst:Welcome-belated
}} → for users who have been editing for a while but never received a standardized welcome message. Includes plate of cookies image; includes auto-sig.
- {{
subst:First article
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article
}} → for new users whose first article has been deleted or Afd'd; with autosign.
- {{
subst:Userfied-welcome
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article
}} → for users whose pages have been
userfied
.
- {{
subst:welcometest
}} ~~~~ → first edit appears to be a test edit.
- {{
subst:Welcome-suboptimal
}} → for users whose edits were intended to be constructive, but had to be reverted for some reason; with autosign.
- {{
subst:Welcome-unconstructive
}} → for users who have vandalized a page or had their first edits reverted as unconstructive; with autosign.
- {{
subst:Welcome0
}} → for new users who have created their user page, but have not yet contributed elsewhere.
- {{
subst:welcomenpov
}} ~~~~ → for someone whose initial efforts do not adhere to
WP:NPOV
.
- {{
subst:Welcomespam
}} ~~~~ → with additional discussion of anti-spamming policies, use when a new user's initial contributions seem to consist solely of spamming external links.
- {{
subst:Welcome-copyright
}} ~~~~ → with additional discussion of
copyright policies
, use when a new user's initial contributions seem to consist solely of inserting a block of copyrighted text.
- {{
subst:Welcomeauto
}} ~~~~ → for users who have created an autobiography.
- {{
subst:Welcome-COI
}} ~~~~ → for users whose edits suggest they may have a
conflict of interest
.
- {{
subst:Welcome unref blp
}} → for users who have created an unreferenced
BLP
- {{
subst:Welcomeunsourced
}} ~~~~ → for users who have made edits adding unreferenced information to articles.
- {{
subst:Welcome non-latin
}} ~~~~ → similar to {{
subst:welcome-retro
}}, with a section for users with a non-Latin alphabet username, and 25 links to translated versions of this message.
- {{
subst:Welcomelaws
}} ~~~~ → A welcome message with a focus on following Wikipedia rules as well as real-world laws; manual signing required.
- {{
subst:Welcome-ql
}} ~~~~ → Welcome message contains decent number of links (WIP, but functional and serves its purposes)
- {{
subst:Mentor welcome
}} ~~~~ Welcome template for mentors in the Growth Team to give to their mentees
Students and teachers
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- {{
subst:Welcome student
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article
}} ~~~~ → for editors who seem to be students editing Wikipedia as part of their course assignment
- {{
subst:Welcome teacher
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article
}} ~~~~ → for editors who seem to be course instructors having their students edit Wikipedia as part of some assignment
- {{
subst:First school article
|Article}} ~~~~ → problematic new school article for editors who seem to be students.
All of these encourage
creating an account
, unless otherwise noted.
- Legend:
Q
= includes a link to
WP:Questions
;
T
=
WP:Tea house
;
A
=
WP:Adventure
;
H
=
{{
Helpme
}}
;
C
=
WP:Task Center
.
Neutral or positive
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For any anon:
- Welcome-unregistered
→ standard, 4 button message: Create acct, Learn editing,
Tea house
,
Task Center
(alias:
{{
Welcome-anon
}}
).
- Welcome-unregistered-retro
→ a classic version , with 4 bulletized policy links (incl. C), and 4 benefits of registering. (alias:
{{
Welcome-anon-retro
}}
)
- Welcome-unregistered-belated
, → mashup: 12 bullets in 2 sections: top is like Welcome-belated, bottom like Welcome-unregistered. Plate of cookies image. (redirects to:
{{
Welcome-belated
}}
; alias:
{{
Welcome-anon-belated
}}
)
- W-graphical-anon
→ 3 paragraph lead; blue 2-col table, 15 links under 5 headers, 4 params:
- Welcome-anon-t
→ 7 bullets, & Q, T, H; tea service image.
- Welcome-t-anon
→ variation of Welcome-anon-t: 6 bullets, 6 benefits of registering, T, Q; tea tray image.
- Thanks
→ Very simple; thanks for edits; no bullets; quirky green smile image.
- short
For those who have helped in specific areas:
Improvement needed or problematic
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For users who have:
- Welcome-anon-summary
→ made constructive edits, but forgot the
edit summary
?? 8 bullets, edit summary advice, Q, H. (A mashup of
{{
Welcome-unregistered-constructive
}}
and
{{
uw-editsummary
}}
.)
- Welcome-anon-suboptimal
→ made edits with constructive intent, but which had to be reverted. 3 paragraphs, 6 bullets, T, Q, C, H.
- Welcome-unregistered-test
→ made a test edit. One paragraph, 5 links; Q, T, H. (alias:
{{
Welcome-anon-test
}}
- Welcome-unregistered-unconstructive
→ vandalized a page or had their first edits reverted?? 5 links. (alias:
{{
Welcome-anon-unconstructive
}}
)
- Welcome-anon-unsourced
→ added unsourced info?? 3 paragraphs, 5 bullets, + Q, T, H; yellow bg.
- Welcome-anon-npov
→ added non-neutral info?? 3 paragraphs, 4 bullets, + Q, T; yellow background.
Use one of these to greet new users interested in a particular topic:
Countries and regions
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Topics
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Used for a user who is creating or editing articles in poor English, and whose native language is known or can be guessed with reasonable confidence. (If the user has been writing articles in another language, one of the templates on
Category:Non-English user warning templates
should be used instead.)
Use this template to welcome the user, substituting in the language code, such as 'fr' for French, or 'de' for German:
The welcome will be issued in two languages: English, and the user's language, if the lang code corresponds to any of the following: Albanian, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.
If the lang code corresponds to a language not shown above, the welcome message is issued in English only. Text for
any language with a Wikipedia project
may be easily added to a subpage, and the template will pick it up automatically; see the
/doc page
for instructions.
- {{
subst
:
User:Audacity/Velcome
}} is a similar message, but in copy-and-paste format allowing easy modification and personalization
- {{
subst
:
User:Piotrus/w
}} this suggests a WikiProject that the new user may want to join; the full syntax is {{subst:User:Piotrus/w|WikiProjectKeyWord}}, where the WikiProjectKeyWord is what follows the Wikipedia:Wikiproject, so for example Sociology of United States
Not strictly a "new user" welcome (more like, a "don't go" template, or "welcome to independent editing"), retention templates are geared towards
editor retention
, that is, keeping editors active at Wikipedia who might otherwise leave.