This is a list of templates available for greeting new users. Anyone may use these templates for greeting a new user on their Talk page. For a display of the various basic designs, see Wikipedia:Welcome template table.
General
Use these for a user who recently registered a username. All of the templates below can be customized with an additional message, a picture of a plate of cookies, a colored border, icons, or a different opening text.
standard buttons + text
text only
text + image
short
graphical
- {{subst:W-graphical}} → graphical menu format, similar to Template:WelcomeMenu, to ease transition from the graphic-heavy web; with autosign.
- {{subst:W-graphic}} → similar, with more powerful colours and changes in text; with autosign.
- {{subst:Welcome screen}} → 11 bullets in 3 sections; blue header bar; rounded rectangular border; alias: {{W-screen}}; with autosign.
- {{subst:Welcomeg}} → Standard, with a host of links — includes auto-sig by welcomer; with autosign.
- {{subst:W-all}} → short—only 14 or 15 lines—with automatic heading and autosign. Very warm and does not overwhelm.
- {{subst:Welcome to Wikipedia}} → tabular with icons: 10 policy links, 10 do's/don'ts, 8 To-do links; text top & bottom; with autosign.
- {{subst:WelcomeVisual}} → links to policies, guidelines, and visually helpful information; with autosign.
- {{subst:Welcome emoji}} → quite colourful with emoji next to policy links, visually appealing; manual signing required.
- {{subst:Welcome user column}} → loosely based on the French welcome template Modèle:Bienvenue nouveau; manual signing required.
- {{subst:Welcoming}} → simple, with tips and links; with autosign.
- {{subst:Welcommons}} → a Commons-style template with autosign.
Specialized
Students and teachers
- {{subst:Welcome student|article}} ~~~~ → for editors who seem to be students editing Wikipedia as part of their course assignment
- {{subst:Welcome teacher|article}} ~~~~ → for editors who seem to be course instructors having their students edit Wikipedia as part of some assignment
- {{subst:First school article|Article}} ~~~~ → problematic new school article for editors who seem to be students.
Unregistered users
All of these encourage creating an account, unless otherwise noted.
- Legend: Q = includes a link to WP:Questions; T = WP:Tea house; A = WP:Adventure; H = {{Helpme}}; C = WP:Task Center.
Neutral or positive
For any anon:
- Welcome-unregistered → standard, 4 button message: Create acct, Learn editing, Tea house, Task Center (alias: {{Welcome-anon}}).
- Welcome-unregistered-retro → a classic version , with 4 bulletized policy links (incl. C), and 4 benefits of registering. (alias: {{Welcome-anon-retro}})
- Welcome-unregistered-belated, → mashup: 12 bullets in 2 sections: top is like Welcome-belated, bottom like Welcome-unregistered. Plate of cookies image. (redirects to: {{Welcome-belated}}; alias: {{Welcome-anon-belated}})
- W-graphical-anon → 3 paragraph lead; blue 2-col table, 15 links under 5 headers, 4 params:
- Welcome-anon-t → 7 bullets, & Q, T, H; tea service image.
- Welcome-t-anon → variation of Welcome-anon-t: 6 bullets, 6 benefits of registering, T, Q; tea tray image.
- Thanks → Very simple; thanks for edits; no bullets; quirky green smile image.
- short
For those who have helped in specific areas:
Improvement needed or problematic
For users who have:
- Welcome-anon-summary → made constructive edits, but forgot the edit summary – 8 bullets, edit summary advice, Q, H. (A mashup of {{Welcome-unregistered-constructive}} and {{uw-editsummary}}.)
- Welcome-anon-suboptimal → made edits with constructive intent, but which had to be reverted. 3 paragraphs, 6 bullets, T, Q, C, H.
- Welcome-unregistered-test → made a test edit. One paragraph, 5 links; Q, T, H. (alias: {{Welcome-anon-test}}
- Welcome-unregistered-unconstructive → vandalized a page or had their first edits reverted – 5 links. (alias: {{Welcome-anon-unconstructive}})
- Welcome-anon-unsourced → added unsourced info – 3 paragraphs, 5 bullets, + Q, T, H; yellow bg.
- Welcome-anon-npov → added non-neutral info – 3 paragraphs, 4 bullets, + Q, T; yellow background.
Topic-specific
Use one of these to greet new users interested in a particular topic:
Countries and regions
Topics
Non-English
Used for a user who is creating or editing articles in poor English, and whose native language is known or can be guessed with reasonable confidence. (If the user has been writing articles in another language, one of the templates on Category:Non-English user warning templates should be used instead.)
Use this template to welcome the user, substituting in the language code, such as 'fr' for French, or 'de' for German:
The welcome will be issued in two languages: English, and the user's language, if the lang code corresponds to any of the following: Albanian, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.
If the lang code corresponds to a language not shown above, the welcome message is issued in English only. Text for any language with a Wikipedia project may be easily added to a subpage, and the template will pick it up automatically; see the /doc page for instructions.
User-hosted
Σ
2
4
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A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
- {{subst:User:Piotrus/w}} this suggests a WikiProject that the new user may want to join; the full syntax is {{subst:User:Piotrus/w|WikiProjectKeyWord}}, where the WikiProjectKeyWord is what follows the Wikipedia:Wikiproject, so for example Sociology of United States
Q
R
S
T
U
W
X
Y
Z
Editor retention
Not strictly a "new user" welcome (more like, a "don't go" template, or "welcome to independent editing"), retention templates are geared towards editor retention, that is, keeping editors active at Wikipedia who might otherwise leave.
See also
