Maniphest T112354

Change Welcome dialogue content to more helpful message to new users
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	Jdforrester-WMF
	Sep 12 2015, 1:15 AM

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	F2613062: welcomeSplash-ltr.png
	Sep 17 2015, 4:59 PM

	F2569531: VisualEditor - education illustration - welcome.png
	Sep 12 2015, 1:15 AM

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Whatamidoing-WMF

Description

New title: "Welcome to Wikipedia"

Content:

welcomeSplash-ltr.png (400×400 px, 32 KB)

Content: "Anyone can edit, and every improvement helps. Thank you for helping the world discover more!"

Button: "Start editing"

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	Project	Branch	Lines +/-	Subject
	mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor	master	+89 -436	MWWelcomeDialog: Alter to be welcoming, use a nice image

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Mentioned In: rEVEDe5e1810f0298: MWWelcomeDialog: Alter to be welcoming, use a nice image

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Jdforrester-WMF created this task.Sep 12 2015, 1:15 AM

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Change 221762 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester):
MWBetaWelcomeDialog: Alter to be welcoming, use a nice image

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/221762

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 12 2015, 1:16 AM

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to TR1: Releases on the VisualEditor board.Sep 14 2015, 10:33 PM

Change 221762 merged by jenkins-bot:
MWWelcomeDialog: Alter to be welcoming, use a nice image

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/221762

Jdforrester-WMF mentioned this in rEVEDe5e1810f0298: MWWelcomeDialog: Alter to be welcoming, use a nice image.Sep 15 2015, 1:39 AM

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: WMF-deploy-2015-09-15_(1.26wmf23).Sep 15 2015, 2:00 AM

Jdforrester-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Sep 15 2015, 2:29 AM

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Jdforrester-WMF added a project: User-notice.Sep 15 2015, 7:04 PM

Jdforrester-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 17 2015, 4:59 PM

Johan moved this task from To Triage to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.Sep 17 2015, 5:05 PM

Johan moved this task from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.Sep 23 2015, 11:18 AM

Johan moved this task from In current Tech/News draft to Recently announced in Tech/News on the User-notice board.Sep 23 2015, 11:50 AM

Quiddity moved this task from Recently announced in Tech/News to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.Oct 1 2015, 7:16 PM

Jdforrester-WMF removed a parent task: T101481: Improve and streamline VisualEditor's user education features.Oct 6 2015, 12:27 AM