Since the welcome template is entirely non-personal, why not get someone to design a bot to do this job? Within minutes of a user signing up a message could be left by the bot so giving them some introductory information. It is preferable that the bot have some inbuilt delay between signup and message so that the user can see the message pop-up after a few minutes editing.

On 11/07/06, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Commonsfolk and recently subscribed admins,

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Orgullobot/Welcome_log

This is another plea for assistance on the Welcome log. PLEASE HELP us
check it, even if it's only two users each day. There is a backlog of
nearly two weeks.

Newbies make a ton of mistakes and catching them early and correcting
them is one way to cut down on future workload in terms of reducing
required unlinking of images that need to be deleted, stopping problem
uploaders earlier and reduce 'orphan' uncategorised images.

After you've corrected their mistakes and left them a note explaining
what they're doing wrong, if necessary, please remove their name from
the list. It's very straightforward.

Please help... even if you just look for some 'easy' users that had
made no mistakes and remove their names from the list.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Orgullobot/Welcome_log

thanks,

Brianna
User:pfctdayelise

PS: If you don't have 'quick nominate as no source/no license/for
deletion + notify uploader' links installed, you might like to. See
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Quick-delete.js
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