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**
* [[ 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: bot message is signed by an experienced user who invite the newcomer to contact him if needed.
* Distributed by user on [[ 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.
* Some wikis have unified messages but some people can distribute their own messages:
** [[ https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Elitre/benve | example ]] on Italian Wikipedia.
** German Wikipedia: One [[ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Hallo | unified message ]] ([[ https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer_Diskussion:Wernerkwiki&oldid=151966953|example]]) distributed by hand (?), 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 ([[ https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer_Diskussion:Ready2order&oldid=152537757 |3]] ])iki/Utente:Elitre/benve | example ]] on Italian Wikipedia).
* Spanish Wikipedia, English Wikisource, Spanish Wikisource: No welcome message distributed (based by picking examples on RecentChanges/newbies)
* German Wikipedia: 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]]) 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.
* English Wikivoyage have a [[ https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/User_talk:Alexhojilla | very simple ]] welcome message that is completed by personal comments from experienced users ([ [[https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Aaron.spring&oldid=2959693 |1]] ], [ [[https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/User_talk:VizergySEO |2]] ]).
**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 (TBC)