Auto-Welcome Community Task - Revision history

TedErnst: {{TOCright}}

2008-03-01T00:25:15Z

TedErnst: /* Discussion */ some

2008-03-01T00:23:05Z

‎Discussion: some

VartanSimonian: discussion/idea

2008-02-29T23:53:09Z

discussion/idea

TedErnst: Category:CurrentCommunityTasks

2008-02-29T23:00:44Z

Category:CurrentCommunityTasks

TedErnst: * Write MediaWiki:InitialPersonalTalkPage as the generic message that will only be used when none of the welcomers is online

2008-02-29T22:59:18Z

* Write MediaWiki:InitialPersonalTalkPage as the generic message that will only be used when none of the welcomers is online

TedErnst: cleaning up

2008-02-29T22:58:09Z

cleaning up

TedErnst: moved from MediaWiki:InitialPersonalTalkPage

2008-02-29T22:52:39Z

moved from MediaWiki:InitialPersonalTalkPage

New page

==see also ==
* [[MediaWiki:InitialPersonalTalkPage]]
* [[Auto-Welcome]] dev task
==Discussion==
*Is there a way for everyone who wants to be a contact person to new people to create their own standard welcome and for the bot to divy out welcomes randomly or in sequence among these people. Example: User1 gets Kasey's welcome message, User2 gets Ted's, User3 gets Kristina's, User4 gets Mark's, an so on until the cycle starts over? Or if the bot could be smart enough to see who was currently online and give new people messages from those people that would be beautiful too. [[Kristina Weis|Kristina]] [[User talk:KristinaWeis|.talk.]] [[WebIRCHelp|.chat.]] 15:43, 27 February 2008 (PST)

==Implementation of Auto-Welcome Idea==
What we need:
* [[Auto-Welcome]] dev task
* Community task
** Tagging the welcomers with [[:Category:Initial Welcomer]]
**Having each welcomer's standard welcome live at User:Username/Welcome (additonal welcomes at User:Username/Welcome2 and so on optional)

==Implementation Details==
* User:Username/Welcome (If dev chooses to implement more than one welcome per person it would be User:Username/Welcome2 and so on.)

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	--<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="border: 1px outset #FFFFFF; background-color: #99CCFF">[[User:VartanSimonian\|<span style="color: #000000;">VartanSimonian</span>]]</span><small><span style="border: 1px outset #FFFFFF; background-color: #99CCFF">[[User talk:VartanSimonian\|<span style="color: #000000;">talk</span>]]</span><span style="border: 1px outset #FFFFFF; background-color: #99CCFF">[[Special:Contributions/VartanSimonian\|<span style="color: #000000;">contribs</span>]]</span><span style="border: 1px outset #FFFFFF; background-color: #99CCFF">[[Special:Emailuser/VartanSimonian\|<span style="color: #000000;">email</span>]]</span></small></span> 15:53, 29 February 2008 (PST)		--<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="border: 1px outset #FFFFFF; background-color: #99CCFF">[[User:VartanSimonian\|<span style="color: #000000;">VartanSimonian</span>]]</span><small><span style="border: 1px outset #FFFFFF; background-color: #99CCFF">[[User talk:VartanSimonian\|<span style="color: #000000;">talk</span>]]</span><span style="border: 1px outset #FFFFFF; background-color: #99CCFF">[[Special:Contributions/VartanSimonian\|<span style="color: #000000;">contribs</span>]]</span><span style="border: 1px outset #FFFFFF; background-color: #99CCFF">[[Special:Emailuser/VartanSimonian\|<span style="color: #000000;">email</span>]]</span></small></span> 15:53, 29 February 2008 (PST)
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		+	: The bot will do this welcome at the instant a new account is created, so there will be no pages edited by this person yet. As for Name, we're also working on changing the signup screen so we'll only have a name, or perhaps a first name, last name and not a username. The Real Name field we currently have has no effect on the site. It's a bummer. [[User:TedErnst\|TedErnst]] <small>([[User talk:TedErnst\|talk]])</small> 16:23, 29 February 2008 (PST)

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 * Write [[MediaWiki:InitialPersonalTalkPage]] as the generic message that will only be used when none of the welcomers is online
 * Having each welcomer's standard welcome live at User:Username/Welcome (additonal welcomes at User:Username/Welcome2 and so on optional) - ''we are waiting for dev to tell us how to format these messages, for signatures, pagename variables, etc''
 [[Category:CurrentCommunityTasks]]

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 ==see also ==
 * [[MediaWiki:InitialPersonalTalkPage]]
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 * Write [[MediaWiki:InitialPersonalTalkPage]] as the generic message that will only be used when none of the welcomers is online
 * Having each welcomer's standard welcome live at User:Username/Welcome (additonal welcomes at User:Username/Welcome2 and so on optional) - ''we are waiting for dev to tell us how to format these messages, for signatures, pagename variables, etc''

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 ==Next Actions==
 * Tagging the welcomers (making sure they know what this is all about) with [[:Category:Initial Welcomer]]
 * Having each welcomer's standard welcome live at User:Username/Welcome (additonal welcomes at User:Username/Welcome2 and so on optional) - ''we are waiting for dev to tell us how to format these messages, for signatures, pagename variables, etc''

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 * [[MediaWiki:InitialPersonalTalkPage]]
 * [[Auto-Welcome]] dev task
-==Discussion==
+==What?==
-*Is there a way for everyone who wants to be a contact person to new people to create their own standard welcome and for the bot to divy out welcomes randomly or in sequence among these people.  Example: User1 gets Kasey's welcome message, User2 gets Ted's, User3 gets Kristina's, User4 gets Mark's, an so on until the cycle starts over?  Or if the bot could be smart enough to see who was currently online and give new people messages from those people that would be beautiful too.  [[Kristina Weis|Kristina]] [[User talk:KristinaWeis|.talk.]] [[WebIRCHelp|.chat.]] 15:43, 27 February 2008 (PST)
+To use resources more efficiently and yet increase [[engagement]] possibilities, newly-created accounts have message placed on their talk page automatically, signed by a welcomer that is online at the moment, or a generic message if no welcomers are online.
-==Implementation of Auto-Welcome Idea==
+==Next Actions==
-What we need:
+* Tagging the welcomers (making sure they know what this is all about) with [[:Category:Initial Welcomer]]
-* [[Auto-Welcome]] dev task
+* Having each welcomer's standard welcome live at User:Username/Welcome (additonal welcomes at User:Username/Welcome2 and so on optional) - ''we are waiting for dev to tell us how to format these messages, for signatures, pagename variables, etc''