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)