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
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subst:Welcome}} → standard 3-button template: Learn, Get Help, Volunteer; manual signing required.
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subst:Welcome-belated}} → for users who have been editing for a while but never received a standardized welcome message. Includes plate of cookies image; includes auto-sig.
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subst:Welcomespam}} ~~~~ → with additional discussion of anti-spamming policies, use when a new user's initial contributions seem to consist solely of spamming external links.
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subst:Welcome-copyright}} ~~~~ → with additional discussion of
copyright policies, use when a new user's initial contributions seem to consist solely of inserting a block of copyrighted text.
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subst:Welcomeauto}} ~~~~ → for users who have created an autobiography.
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subst:Welcomeunsourced}} ~~~~ → for users who have made edits adding unreferenced information to articles.
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subst:Welcome non-latin}} ~~~~ → similar to {{
subst:welcome-retro}}, with a section for users with a non-Latin alphabet username, and 25 links to translated versions of this message.
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subst:Welcomelaws}} ~~~~ → A welcome message with a focus on following Wikipedia rules as well as real-world laws; manual signing required.
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subst:Welcome-ql}} ~~~~ → Welcome message contains decent number of links (WIP, but functional and serves its purposes)
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subst:Mentor welcome}} ~~~~ Welcome template for mentors in the Growth Team to give to their mentees
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subst:Welcome student|article}} ~~~~ → for editors who seem to be students editing Wikipedia as part of their course assignment
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subst:Welcome teacher|article}} ~~~~ → for editors who seem to be course instructors having their students edit Wikipedia as part of some assignment
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subst:First school article|Article}} ~~~~ → problematic new school article for editors who seem to be students.
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.
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User:Arknascar44/Welcome}}, welcome with personalized message, syntax is {{subst:User:Arknascar44/Welcome|msg=message|sig=~~~~}}
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User:Audacity/Welcome}} is a more customizable and personalized template than the standard welcomes, and can be used for both anonymous editors and users
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User:Audacity/Velcome}} is a similar message, but in copy-and-paste format allowing easy modification and personalization
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User:Booksworm/welcomemain}} The Main Page of all of Booksworm's welcome messages. They are, however, very graphic and work best on Mozilla Firefox
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User:Brainy J/Welcome}} Mostly copied from Coffee's but has a rose in a vase instead of cookies. Use
* {{subst:User:Brainy J/Welcome|your username||additional message|~~~~}}
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User:Bwilkins/welcomecivil}} For welcoming a user who became involved in an uncivil discussion early in their "career". You may add the username of the editor who was attacked if desired. Based on Welcomenpov and includes a heading. {{subst:User:Bwilkins/welcomecivil|other username}}
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User:Cocoaguy/UserWelcome}} A semi-clone of AxG's but has different colors and tells users about Wikiprojects.
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User:Malinaccier/Welcome}} A mix of most welcome pages. Based on
TomasBat's welcome page. You have to change the talk page link to your own at the bottom.
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User:Novo Tape/Welcome Young}} For editors under 18. Encourages internet safety and anonymity and links to
WP:YOUNG. Requires substituting but should automatically append your signature.
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User:Od Mishehu/welcome+uncat}}, for a new user who created an article without a category. For both of them, there is a link to my talk page: use the user parameter to link to yours instead.
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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
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User:Vanished user 9oijnsdfknefijh3tjasfi34/Welcome}}: Doesn't require any options, just paste this code into a new editor's talk page. This welcome template is special because it has basic guides of copy editing, vandal patrolling, etc.
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User:Rjjiii/Welcome}}: Based on questions often asked at the
the Teahouse, this template is written in basic English and includes links to often-suggested pages for new users like
WP:BACKWARDS.
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.