On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
2012/12/4 S Page <spage(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:S_Page_%28WMF%29/welcomecreation_messages>
This made me feel very \o/.
Research about current customizations of messages on projects is
probably the number one thing that I'd like to see happen in the
Wikimedia dev community.
Glad to help, and it's not hard to do as a one-off job. I understand
these are the sorts of jobs that toolserver runs but I've no
experience wit it. Maybe there's a way to for transwiki to show "for
language X, here are the Wikipedias, Wikibooks, Wikiquotes, etc. that
have customized this message (as of last run at 2012-12-03 19:50
UTC)."
The most inventive is probably the Hebrew Wikipedia (
https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcomecreation ), which has a
lot of graphics. It has three big buttons ...
And in this case it doesn't look like anyone has copied that
customized message to
he.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcomecreation-msg 1.21wmf5 will
launch on wikis tomorrow (today) December 4th.
Most customized welcome pages say a few words that are
specific to the
project, such as "Welcome to the Russian Wikiversity. Sign up to your
school."
The first part could be handled by using {{SITENAME}} in the default message.
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=S Page software engineer on E3