Please, add option to show custom template to an user that have recently
finished your subscription to website running mediawiki. This template may
contain custom instructions and rules.
And, in this feature, send a copi of that messagem to email adress, if user
inserted any in subscription.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
brian wrote:
The message displayed on the screen after creating an account should state that it is
identical to the e-mail, but only if an e-mail was actually sent.
The e-mail should state that it is identical to the message displayed on-screen.
brian wrote:
Perhaps there is already such a feature - enabled by editing one of the pages in the MediaWiki
namespace?
stanley wrote:
As the increasing new user everyday at wikipedias especially newbies, this
feature will greatly help the welcoming committee.
robchur wrote:
I'm thinking this should be a nice, clean extension. If there's demand for it,
we can switch it on on applicable Wikimedia wikis.
stanley wrote:
Actually, we can use the MediaWiki:welcomecreation message for this, but the
message only appeared for couple of seconds before automatically redirected to
Main Page. If only mw can disable the auto redirection and put something like
"Click here to go to Main page" so that there will be enough time for people to
read instructions. That would be a perfect solution.
robchur wrote:
(In reply to comment #6)
Actually, we can use the MediaWiki:welcomecreation message for this, but the
message only appeared for couple of seconds before automatically redirected to
Main Page. If only mw can disable the auto redirection and put something like
"Click here to go to Main page" so that there will be enough time for people to
read instructions. That would be a perfect solution.
I read the original request as being, "please add in X functionality so we can
leave Y welcome message on the talk pages of each new user" - if that is not the
case, please summarise it properly and change the focus of this bug report.
brian wrote:
The talk page should simply have a link and short
message to whatever page is displayed immediately after
creating the account.
stanley wrote:
(In reply to comment #8)
I read the original request as being, "please add in X functionality so we can
leave Y welcome message on the talk pages of each new user" - if that is not the
case, please summarise it properly and change the focus of this bug report.
I only suggested another alternatif regarding the request "automatic Y welcome
message on the talk pages of each newly created account". I think disabling the
automatic redirecting on welcome page (the special page use
MediaWiki:welcomecreation) is far more easy then creating new module to
implement the original request. In which both have the same purpose.
If you disable the timeout redirect on welcome page, then sysop can put a lot of
information on it such as:
And, since there is no specific welcome message send to user_talk page
automatically, people can still send their own personal greetings (in reply to
comment #7).
robchur wrote:
I've removed the auto redirect on account creation. Please decide whether or not
the auto-welcoming feature is still required, and if so, please post an
extension request.
brian wrote:
Extension request: bug 4914 ("bug" 4914 - it's really a
feature request).