On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
On 07/06/11 02:09, Kim Bruning wrote:
Currently, we're getting some amount of traffic on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Paul_Revere
Once we have given thanks and praise to Ms Palin for sending us so many potential new recruits; we can start explaining to everyone who shows up
how
wikipedia works, and how they can contribute constructively.
I have inserted {{welcome}} at the top of the talk page. This is much better at welcoming new users than 15 lines of templates.
Be bold!
-- Ashar Voultoiz
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The template is meant for user: space, so it doesn't quite fit by transcluding Paul Revere's name into the welcome, etc. However, you raise an interesting point of use of templates. Why should we not have generic talk page template? This is off topic for this list, I've posted to en.wp village pump: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Welcome.2Fho...