Template talk:Welcome

Awesome template. Added a link to A Quick Guide to CWCki which is mandatory reading for newbies --Delabonte 03:34, 26 July 2009 (CEST)

Incorporating sig?

Anyway way we can incorporate a signature with this so I don't need to do --~~~~? Also, if I try to edit in the "Hi there!" section (like I was going to add my signature after the last sentence, it takes me to editing the template, which explains my last few edits. Is there any way to fix that? --Champthom 11:01, 23 September 2009 (CEST)

The signature substitution in MediaWiki smells of Weird Magic. I'm not sure if it's possible to put that in any page without making it to expand: it's either expanded to full, or kept as is (with <nowiki>). Either way, if you put it in a template, it means that in that case the template has to be substituted (e.g. {{subst:welcome}}); the template has no other way knowing who added it and when. In a substituted template, the signature could be worked around through using some magic words which are in turn substituted. Only you have to hack it in somehow, mysteriously, and you'd call {{subst:welcome|subst=subst:}} and put {{{{{subst|}}}MYSTERYWORD}} in your template, or something like that - I haven't done anything like this before so I don't know how it works. (You see where this leads, right? Very many curly braces, yes?) I regrettably don't have any pointers at hand. All I know something like this has been done before. Somewhere. I think.

The reason the section edit link points to the template is because, um, the text in that section is in the template. Which is kind of counterintuitive, because you're sitting on one page, and people with normally working faculties of mind can't see that the text comes from another page. You'll need Sherlock Holmes's deductive capabilities to see where the hell the text comes from. This can be only avoided by substituting the template, which means that in the resulting page, the text really is on that page and nowhere else. (Just welcome users with {{subst:welcome}} --~~~~. This is handy, because it will also preserve the text for posterity and users don't get confused that their welcome messages now look different than they did the day before). --wwwwolf (wake me when you need me) 11:37, 23 September 2009 (CEST)

Okay, I just tested it in User:Wwwwolf/Sandbox and User:Wwwwolf/Sandbox/test1 (see the source for latter). Yep, it works as advertised when used this way. However (and this is a BIG "however"), the REVISIONUSER magic word, which I suspect is the key (since I can't test this), is a feature that was introduced in MediaWiki 1.15. Looks like we need to upgrade this thing! Pleaaase! wwwwolfy wants his Redirect Fixer! --wwwwolf (wake me when you need me) 12:01, 23 September 2009 (CEST)

Use of FAQ

Right now, it advises readers to read the FAQ if they have any questions. However, that FAQ only addresses Chris related issues when a new user might have questions about CWCki itself. I think something along the lines of a CWCki FAQ similar to this might be handy. --Champthom 21:51, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

"Just don't upload gigantic pictures of yourself and your favorite anime. I warn against this only because it's happened before."

Wha? When did this happen? --Lime 17:57, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

we need a bot to plaster this on every new user talk page

Clydec 20:26, 7 October 2010 (PDT)

we need to improve this because this is way too unwieldy for a new person to read

Clydec 20:26, 7 October 2010 (PDT)