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

[Brianna Laugher]

On 04/02/07, Mohamed Magdy <mohamed.m.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for bringing that up to our attention, it is indeed a forgotten
> place!. also thanks for that table, it should help. but as you said,
> simple welcoming message is essential concentrating on the most
> important aspects. and yes, yours are designed specifically for commons
> place as it seems. especially the 'how to' change language. another
> thing, you should include a semi-protected template in
> MediaWiki:Welcomecreation page. as I have seen, a lot of registered
> users can be creative and yields great results.

Interesting idea. I think I will do that, it should make translations
easier. Do you work in a project that does that a lot?
Although for this message in particular, I guess most registered users
still won't care much about it, since they only see it once. :)

cheers
Brianna