Template:Cal Invitation/doc

Rationale
A key part of having an active, effective project or task force is increasing the member size. Here's some information on inviting members.


 * Look for members who have contributed to California related topics. They can be high-profile topics, such as San Francisco, or low-profile like a local school, street, etc. You can also find them new articles at User:AlexNewArtBot/CaliforniaSearchResult.
 * Check the history log to see what sort of contributions users have made.
 * Go to talk pages. Users who comment on talk pages are more likely to be significant contributors. You can confirm this by checking their list of contributions.
 * Look for members who live in California. This may be indicated on their user page. You can also check categories such as Category:Wikipedians in California.

Examples
Once you've found a member you wish to invite, start a new section on their take page and add the template using the substitution syntax, as shown here, which produces the generic template as it appears at the top of this page.

{{subst:Cal Invitation}}

Task force invitations
To invite them to the project at-large, or to a particular task force using


 * {{subst:Cal Invitation/sfba}} : San Francisco Bay Area task force


 * {{subst:Cal Invitation/socal}} : Southern California task force


 * {{subst:Cal Invitation/ie}} : Inland Empire task force


 * {{subst:Cal Invitation/la}} : Los Angeles task force


 * {{subst:Cal Invitation/calstate}} : California State University task force

Personalizing the invitation
You can specify an article they have contributed to significantly using, which alters the template's output as such:

Follow up
Once the user has joined, make sure you make them feel welcome. All new members should receive a {{subst:Cal Greeting}} on their talk pages.

TemplateData
{	"description": "Displays a banner that compliments the editor on their work on California-related articles (optionally, citing one specifically) and invites them to join WikiProject California or one of its constituent task forces, automatically including the inviting user's signature", "format": "inline", "params": { "art": { "label": "Page invitee worked on", "description": "The name of the article where you noticed the user's work, used to personalize the invitation", "example": "San Francisco", "type": "wiki-page-name", "suggested": true, "aliases": [ "article" ]		},		"demo": { "aliases": [ "nosubst" ],			"label": "Prevent auto-substitution", "description": "Set this value to 'yes' when calling this template on documentation pages or elsewhere only as an example of how to use it, so the auto-subst bot leaves it alone.", "example": "yes", "type": "boolean" }	} }