Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:41:18 +0000
From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] User talk templates
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On 22 March 2012 08:37, En Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
First, has anyone thought about automatically
adding a welcome message to the user?s talk page when they first register, not only for EN
but also for Commons, Simple, and other projects?
Is there any evidence anyone reads the template and doesn't just treat
it as bot-generated tl;dr?
- d.
I certainly read the welcome message that someone gave me when I was new.
Your tone comes across as harsh. Do you have any positive suggestions about how to improve
editor retention?
Pine