The other thing to remember is that you are welcoming people, not computers. The personal touch helps to make people feel involved. Commenting in a friendly and positive way about something in one of their edits goes a lot further than an automated list of links to rules.
Ec
Platonides wrote:
But you probably don't want to welcome EVERYBODY. At least on major wikipedias, there are a lot of account creations that make no edit (why do they create those account is a mistery :s). So you probably prefer welcome people that has made at least one edit.
"Essjay" :
Claudi Meneghin wrote:
Hello, I am admin in Lombard wikipedia, which is still small. I would like to ask you if there is any way to send automatically a welcome message to any new user who creates a new account. Many thanks.
Sincerely yours,
Claudi