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Bundle Extension:NewUserMessage with MediaWiki core
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Description

Feature summary:

From https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NewUserMessage

The NewUserMessage extension adds a message to the talk pages of newly created wiki accounts.

Usually after a new user registers on a wiki powered by MediaWiki, the message in MediaWiki:Welcomecreation is displayed. This extension allows a message in a specified template to be added into the new user's talk page instead.

It seems to be quite a simple, straightforward extension.

Use case(s)

This might be particularly useful for smaller third-party wikis, who have a low user base, and people to "welcome" new users.

Might be considered for migration into core at some point, but let's get it bundled first.

Checklist

  • Passed discussion or already Wikimedia deployed
  • Passed security review or already Wikimedia deployed
  • Voting CI structure tests
  • Runs MediaWiki-CodeSniffer
  • Runs phan
  • Supports MySQL, SQLite, and Postgres (if there are schema changes)
  • GPL v2 or later compatible license
  • Extension's default configuration provides optimal experience
  • Tested with web installer
  • Any relevant dependencies also bundled

subtask of T392080

Event Timeline

Pppery subscribed.

I am opposed to the entire concept of normalizing spamming people's talk pages with impersonal form-letter welcome messages.

This might be particularly useful for smaller third-party wikis, who have a low user base, and people to "welcome" new users.

Small wikis might just completely ignore user talk pages.