On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2012/12/4 S Page spage@wikimedia.org:
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.
-- =S Page software engineer on E3