Template talk:Welcome
Making this template useful
Right now, this template doesn't seem to get used at all and I think that's a shame. I think with a little improvement, this could be made good enough to let a bot slap it onto every new user's talk page.
My suggested changes are the following (obviously with wiki formatting and rewording):
Welcome to the wiki, here's how stuff works
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Editing Pages | Editing Talk Pages | FAQ
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Style guides: Weapon | Trivia | Images
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If you're looking for work: Team Fortress Wiki:Tasks | Where to ask questions
Each one of those is actually a link to a page with the following content:
- Editing Pages: Explains basic wiki syntax, how to treat protected pages, edit summary and other basic stuff.
- Editing Talk Pages: --~~~~, :, replying on the same page, don't remove stuff etc.
- FAQ: How do I get wiki cap? My stuff just got reverted, what do I do?
- Where to ask questions: explains where to ask what, i.e. user talk page if it's a user, article talk page if it's about the article, list of helpful people ("mentors" and/or wiki staff) who are willing to help/IRC channel if it's general
That way the "Wall of text" is avoided and new users have a place where to look for answers (I remember that this was one of the biggest challenges for me at the beginning). --CruelCow 10:37, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
