Difference between revisions of "Auto-Welcome"
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== Why this is important == | == Why this is important == | ||
*Freeing up community staff time for other engagement tasks | *Freeing up community staff time for other engagement tasks | ||
| − | *Providing new people that sign up an automatic contact person for help and links to help pages | + | *Providing new people that sign up an automatic contact person that is online for help and links to help pages |
*Making sure 100% of people that sign up (rather than 50% or less of people that make edits) get welcomed | *Making sure 100% of people that sign up (rather than 50% or less of people that make edits) get welcomed | ||
*Teaching new people about [[talk page]] messaging system | *Teaching new people about [[talk page]] messaging system | ||
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== Steps to get to [[DoneDone]] == | == Steps to get to [[DoneDone]] == | ||
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| + | [[Category:DevelopmentTeam]] | ||
[[Category:OpenTask]] | [[Category:OpenTask]] | ||
| − | [[Category: | + | [[Category:WhiteList]] |
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Latest revision as of 06:10, 11 April 2008
What (summary)
Automatically welcoming new people as they create an account, giving them a contact person that is currently online to encourage engagement with less resources.
Why this is important
- Freeing up community staff time for other engagement tasks
- Providing new people that sign up an automatic contact person that is online for help and links to help pages
- Making sure 100% of people that sign up (rather than 50% or less of people that make edits) get welcomed
- Teaching new people about talk page messaging system
- Pointing out what AboutUs is so people can make more effective edits and not just sign up and never make any edits (I think we have a high % of this now)
DoneDone
- Tell Kristina how the standard welcome should be formatted (like this or this or something else)
- Questions: How are pagename, signatures, and edit summmaries going to work?
- The bot selects a welcomer from Category:Initial Welcomer who is currently online (if no welcomer is currently online use MediaWiki:InitialPersonalTalkPage).
- Every newly created account receives a welcome from a welcomer's standard message (randomly or in sequence). This will live at User:Username/Welcome.
- Bot randomly selects from online welcomer, and then from their respective welcome messages if they have more than one. Example: User:Username/Welcome2 and so on.
- Wish List: The ability for people to say how many welcomes they want to put out in ratio to others. Example: Ted wants to do half as much as Kasey.