[Foundation-l] Sooo, who wanted to recruit new users again? ; -)

[Keegan Peterzell]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:33 AM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
> > On 07/06/11 02:09, Kim Bruning wrote:
> >> Currently, we're getting some amount of traffic on
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Paul_Revere
> >>
> >> Once we have given thanks and praise to Ms Palin for sending us so many
> >> potential new recruits; we can start explaining to everyone who shows up
> how
> >> wikipedia works, and how they can contribute constructively.
> >
> > I have inserted {{welcome}} at the top of the talk page.  This is much
> > better at welcoming new users than 15 lines of templates.
> >
> > Be bold!
>
> I've partially reverted you. Those templates at the top of the page are
> horribly obnoxious, but they also provide utility to WikiProjects and the
> broader encyclopedia itself.
>
> Instead of removing the top templates entirely, I put them in a collapsed
> box. I liked your idea of using a welcome template, but {{welcome}} uses
> phrasing such as "Hello, Paul Revere, and welcome to Wikipedia!", which is
> a
> bit awkward. I substituted the template contents into {{hello world}}
> (essentially hijacking that unused template) and then modified the contents
> to be a bit less awkward and more fitting.
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
>
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Righty-o.

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