Some communities run bots to welcome new users. These bots are target new users actions or existing accounts. That may give to users who use Cross wiki Notification the feeling that they are spammed.
@Dereckson works on NewUserActions Extension. That task is here to provide user cases and help to identify community needs or practices.
The **default** and most common actions are:
# user creates an account
# users receive the "Welcome notification" from Echo
# user receive a message distributed by a bot or by hand
**Specific cases**
* distribution by bot with a "contact me" message: [[ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_utilisateur:Lamavira | French ]], [[ https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discussioni_utente:Michelemontecchio&oldid=54075865 | Italian ]], [[ https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B1%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0:Futball80 | Russian ]] Wikipedia:. That bot message is signed by an experienced user who invite the newcomer to contact him if needed.
* D* distributedion by user onwith a "contact me" message: [[ https://ar.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B4_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85:CharlesCo | Arabic Wiktionary ]] and [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:%D0%90%D0%B1%D0%B4%D1%8B%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%82_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2| Wikidata]], with a "please contact me" sentence.
* Spanish Wikipedia, English Wikisource, Spanish Wikisource: No welcome message distributed (based by picking examples on RecentChanges/newbies)
* Some wikis have unified messagesunified message but some people can distribute their own messages:
** [[ https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Elitre/benve | example ]] on Italian Wikipedia).
** German Wikipedia have one common [[ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Hallo | unified message ]] ([[ https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer_Diskussion:Wernerkwiki&oldid=151966953|example]]) manually distributed by {{ers:Hallo}} or {{subst:Hallo}} to avoid confusing newbies by having a template on their talk page, but a lot of handcrafted messages too ([ [[https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer_Diskussion:Xplus1&oldid=152594618 |1]] ], [ [[https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer_Diskussion:Automobilfreak&direction=next&oldid=152503482 |2]] ], [ [[https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer_Diskussion:Ready2order&oldid=152537757 |3]] ]). Personal welcome messages are [[ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Begr%C3%BC%C3%9Fung | encouraged ]]. There are [[ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Begr%C3%BC%C3%9Fung | alternative welcome templates ]] as well.
** Swedish Wikipedia has a couple of welcome templates ([[ https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mall:Nyb%C3%B6rjare | one]] , [[https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mall:V%C3%A4lkommen|two]]) that users can greet new accounts with if they feel like it (recent examples: [[https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndardiskussion:Tilde_Andrea|one]], [[https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndardiskussion:Huginomunin|two]]), but it's also common to just start a discussion about the users edits. There are no bot-delivered welcome messages.
* English Wikivoyage have a* welcome message completed by personal comments from experienced users: [[ https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/User_talk:Alexhojilla | very simple ]] welcome message that is completed by personal comments from experienced usersEnglish Wikivoyage]] ([ [[https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Aaron.spring&oldid=2959693 |1]] ], [ [[https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/User_talk:VizergySEO |2]] ]). Also possible on French Wikipedia when distributed by hand (`message` parameter in [[ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modèle:Bienvenue | the template ]])
* no welcome message: Spanish Wikipedia, English Wikisource, Spanish Wikisource (based by picking examples on RecentChanges/newbies)
**Explored wikis**
* en.wp, fr.wp, it.wp, es.wp, ru.wp, ar.wp, de.wp, fr.ws, en.ws, es.ws, commons, de.wikt, ar.wikt, wikidata, en.wv, sv.wp
**Possible features**
* Create the talk page with a defined message
* Possibly have a parameter to add a user name picked from a list of volunteers?
* Update 'Welcome' notification to add the volunteer name if that option is activated on the wiki?
**Regarding communities**
* Convince communities to have a single message