[Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

[Fred Bauder]

>>> Should we have a special "welcoming" staff instead of random
>>> people or bots inserting {{welcome}}?
>>
>> To my knowledge, no one has ever tried it, but why not?
>
> On English Wikipedia there is a
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Welcoming_committee
>
> --
> John Vandenberg

"It is best to post a personalized greeting written by you, but to save
time you can use a welcome template."

Fred