User:SPage (WMF)/Welcomecreation

Current welcomecreation
== Welcome, $1! == Your account has been created. Do not forget to change your preferences.
 * Current Mediawiki:welcomecreation is a #REDIRECT to Community portal. That breaks, so it seems to operate as if there's no text, so after creating an account users see the default welcomecreation message:

I think, followed by a CentralAuth message about being logged in at other sites.

And then a link to Return to {the page you were on} before you logged in (the returnto message).

Alternatives

 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Welcomecreation&action=history View the history of the welcomecreation message], e.g. big and friendly in 2011
 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&search=welcomecreation&fulltext=Search&ns8=1&redirs=1 search for others], e.g.
 * MediaWiki:Customusertemplate-ACP1-welcomecreation from from CustomUserSignup as part of Account Creation Improvement Program.
 * Extension:CustomUserSignup's customization made it so that anyone following a link to signup with a special URl can see custom messages, e.g.  sees MediaWiki:Customusertemplate-apswi-welcomecreation

Current loginsuccess
The text you see after a successful login is similar to successful account creation. It is:
 * Mediawiki:loginsuccess, currently a slight variation on the default 'You are now logged in to as \"\$1\".
 * followed by the CentralAuth message about being logged in at other sites.
 * And then a link to Return to {the page you were on} before you logged in (the returnto message).

Possible
Here are some ideas. Note any wall of text pushes down messages below it (CentralAuth and return to page you were on)

Welcome, $1!
Your account has been created.

Now you're a registered user,
 * You may want to change your preferences.
 * You can practice editing on your Special:MyPage page, or
 * You can tell others about yourself on your user page Special:MyPage, which is also a good introduction to editing Wikipedia pages.
 * There's also a Sandbox page where you can practice editing
 * If you're looking to help the project, here are some tasks from the Community portal

''to pull in Community portal/Opentask