Hello, Example, and Welcome to Wikipedia!
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or by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to help you get started. Happy editing! ~~~~
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- Contributing to Wikipedia
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- How to edit a page
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- Article Wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles
 | This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{subst:W-graphical}}). Any accidental transclusions will be automatically substituted by a bot. |
Usage
[edit]- To greet an editor with this template just as it appears above (your signature will automatically replace the
~~~~), place the following wikicode on the editor's talk page:
{{subst:W-graphical}}
- To add a message in an additional paragraph before the last sentence, use:
{{subst:W-graphical|message}}
- Replace message with your desired message. It will be inserted into the greeting before "Happy editing!"
- To add a message at the end of the second paragraph, usually for welcomes that point out problems, use:
{{subst:W-graphical||message}}
- An example can be found at {{w-graphical-anon}}, which is a wrapper for this template that utilizes this parameter.
- To add a (level-2) heading above the greeting, use:
{{subst:W-graphical|heading=heading text}}
- The heading will be what is typed in after "heading=".
- To add an article credit to the "Thank you" sentence:
{{subst:W-graphical|article=article title}}
- Sentence will read: "Thank you for your contributions to article title and to this free encyclopedia."
- To change the color of the entire message, use:
{{subst:W-graphical|color=color}}
- Replace color with one of the following choices (the default is navy blue and orange, shown above):
cyanpink
- The above options can be combined:
{{subst:W-graphical|Wikipedia is amazing.|heading=Welcome to Wikipedia|article=Mitochondrion}}
See also
[edit]The best-looking and efficient welcome template out there
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| heading | heading | A heading to generate
| String | suggested |
| color | color | The color of the background. Currently only supports two alternatives
| Unknown | optional |
| article | article art | An article the user has contributed to | Page name | optional |
| Problem | 2 | A message to be put after "encyclopedia" and will have a paragraph break after itself | Unbalanced wikitext | optional |
| Message | 1 | A message to be put before "Happy" as a separate paragraph | Unbalanced wikitext | optional |