Template:Welcome
Hello, Welcome, and welcome to the Simple English Wikipedia! Thank you for your changes.
You may want to begin by reading these pages:
- Help
- Rules
- Links to useful pages
- How to write Simple English pages
- How to copy from another Wikipedia
For some ideas of pages to work on, read Wikipedia:Requested pages or the list of wanted pages.
You can change any pages you want! Any changes you make can be seen right away. You can ask questions at Wikipedia:Simple talk. At the end of your messages on talk pages, please sign your name by clicking File:Insert-signature.svg or using four tildes (~~~~); this will show your username and the date.
If you need help just click here and type {{helpme}} and your question and someone will reply to you shortly.
Good luck and happy changing!
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Usage[change]
Add {{subst:Welcome}} ~~~~ to the user's talk page.
Parameters:
- First parameter = your name:
{{subst:Welcome|Myname}} - Parameter 'art' = Article the user positively contributed to:
{{subst:Welcome|art=Radar detector}}
Be sure to remember to add your signature ( ~~~~ ) after the template, as the text refers to 'my talk page'.
TemplateData[change]
<templatedata> { "params": { "heading": { "description": "Suppresses the automatic heading", "type": "unknown" }, "headtext": { "description": "Changes the contents of the heading", "type": "string", "label": "Heading text", "default": "Welcome!" }, "newuser": { "description": "Uses alternate text not linking to the editor's contributions", "label": "New user", "example": "y", "type": "boolean" }, "art": { "description": "Mentions and links to an article the editor has contributed to", "type": "wiki-page-name", "label": "Article", "suggested": true, "aliases": [ "article" ] }, "customend": { "label": "Custom end", "description": "Adds a custom ending to the message", "type": "string", "default": "Happy editing!", "suggested": true }, "border": { "description": "Adds a border around the message in a specified color or hex triplet", "example": "DarkViolet, #9400D3", "type": "string" }, "borderradius": { "label": "Border radius", "description": "Specifies the rounding of the border", "example": "15px", "default": "2px" }, "image": { "description": "Adds an image to go with the welcome (no need for brackets)", "example": "File:Chocolate chip cookies.jpg", "type": "wiki-file-name" }, "imagecaption": { "label": "Image caption", "description": "Specifies a caption to go with the image", "example": "Here, enjoy some cookies! Smiley emoji", "type": "string" }, "customstart": { "label": "Custom start", "description": "Adds a custom message at the end of the first paragraph", "type": "string", "default": "I hope you like it here and decide to stay.", "suggested": true } }, "description": "The standard template to welcome new editors.", "paramOrder": [ "heading", "headtext", "border", "borderradius", "image", "imagecaption", "newuser", "art", "customstart", "customend" ] } </templatedata>
Related pages[change]
- Use
{{subst:welcome-anon}}for anonymous (IP) editors. - See Category:Welcome templates for others.