[Foundation-l] Comparison of new user welcome efforts across projects

[Ashar Voultoiz]

Brianna Laugher wrote:
<snip>
> I am involved with the welcoming efforts on Commons, where we have a
> bot that places a {{welcome}} message on all newly registered users
> who have made at least one edit or upload. We invite users to give
> feedback on the message, which you can read here:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Welcome_log
<snip>

Maybe it could be a feature in MediaWiki. I am not sure we want to 
create a dummy page each time a user create an account through.

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